I ask you, is having your pseudo-ISP inform you that they’re switching all their email filtering stuff over to Postini, and that you have until the end of this short week to not only understand what that means, but get used to handling your own anti-spam and quarantine settings and teach everyone on staff about…
I’m back at work this morning after the three day weekend. It was a nice break, and we had a good time in DC over the weekend, although anytime you’re visiting the Holocaust Memorial, the Vietnam Wall and the many other memorials and tributes, it’s always a bit sobering. Especially considering I had never been…
These are the things I’m thinking today.. Preliminary information about Gnomedex is out. While I don’t plan on going this year, Angela did point out an interesting fact of life in the comments to that original post. For the last three years, I’ve gone to Gnomedex on my company’s dime. The speakers and tech information…
Been busy this morning with a bad Symantec Corporate Edition client. One of the PC’s had a problem getting the updated definitions file, such a bad problem that the AV just stopped working, throwing up “bad environment” errors at startup. Since the AV wouldn’t run, it couldn’t communicate with the server it’s supposed to be…
Catching up with some tech newsletters, and finding some great stuff. From the latest issue of Tech Support Alert, a long discussion of spyware, how some programs claim to be anti-spyware but actually are spyware, how to keep yourself save and links to great tools like SpywareBlaster, The Spyware Blog and a free online test…
So you’re working in a nice little corporate environment. You have your own office, nice PC sitting on top of your desk and maybe even a little free time. We’ve all been there, we’ve all taken our turn firing up the solitaire games that come with Windows. Some of us have even been brazen enough…