Upgrade update

My original prediction, of course, was a month and 4 meetings. The President got the memo yesterday, had a short meeting with my boss, and sent me 4 different emails with questions and suggestions for possible changes. My boss is now trying to schedule a meeting for us to discuss options with 3-4 other people,…

Gee that was nice..

Let’s start from the beginning shall we? Last week, at some point, a co-worker got one of those forwarded twenty times, chain-letter, emails. Naturally the person who sent this email to everyone they now, didn’t use the BCC function in their email, they just had dozens and dozens of To: addresses listed on it. Not…

Tech-free weekend

Yes it’s true, I hardly touched my computers all weekend long. The only time I spent online really was Saturday night, getting the latest inury updates before the fantasy footballl draft yesterday and then last night, checking the meager job listings in various places that we want to live in. After last week I wanted…

Last bit on SoBig

Lots of folks are pitching a fit with MS over this bad boy, and certainly MS deserves some blame for the faults in their software. On the other hand, Outlook is getting better at recognizing dangerous attachments (at least the beta of 2003 seems to me to be better at it), it’s starting to not…

Autoresponders And Challenge Response Make Virus Worse

I was just thinkingthe same thing! To quote: “One thing that’s different, this time, though, is that along with all the usual bounces, I’m getting an annoying amount of “challenge-response” requests from people I didn’t email. In other words, the virus emails someone randomly and puts my email address as the “reply-to”. If the recipient…