Company Infrastructure Template
Here’s the first of a few templates I’ve gathered or made throughout the years. The Company Infrastructure template.
This “catch-all” document can be a central repository for network, system and vendor information, something to use to survey the environment for an audit, or when handing off to / indoctrinating a new IT person. Not all of the [...]
Hand me my Sceptre
My new 24" Sceptre LCD monitor just arrived, in fact I’m looking using it now while writing this post. What I replaced was a very nice, but old and power hungry, 21" Dell Trinitron CRT which is now on Craigslist as I write.
I bought it from CompUSA for $329.41, with shipping and no tax (you’ll [...]
PGR4 Wallpaper
I’ve been playing Project Gotham Racing 4 now since February 14th (thanks honey) and just recently began taking photos. You can pause the game at any time and snap a picture from any angle. It’s really quite amazing and the quality is equally as good.
You can take pictures anytime during the game, but I setup [...]
Oh no!!! It’s 8-bit MIME
Recently a customer was experiencing mail delivery failures:
Action: failed
Status: 5.6.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.6.1 Body type not supported by Remote Host
Turns out that the Windows SMTP service (what Exchange 2000/2003 uses to transfer mail) advertises 8-bit MIME, which isn’t compatible with some mail servers (they were using Postfix). In any case it was causing a lot of [...]
IM Chattin’
One of the great boons of the Internet has been instant messaging. Not only does it allow you to keep in touch with friends and family across the globe, it’s great for work as well; which is the point of this post.
Being self-employed (and the only employee) it is very useful to be able to [...]
Vista Exam 70-620
I recently signed up for the Microsoft exam 70-620, Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client. To that end I’ve been reading Mark Minasi’s Mastering Windows Vista. Now with just over 600 pages into the book, I’m still waiting to learn more about the administrative side of the OS. I’m a huge fan of his, with five [...]
Ok, so I’ve signed up for Twitter and I’m still wondering what the point actually is. Most of the posts I’m seeing are about having a sandwich, attending a meeting, flying home, etc. I’ve been posting once or twice a day, “working on blog”, “trying to get AdSense to work”, “going home for the weekend”. [...]
I’ve been on LinkedIn for a few years now and never really got the point. I guess I viewed it as a large dynamic phonebook to track co-workers when they moved on to new jobs. And I realize it is useful for recruiters as well as anyone wishing to start a company, but I’m neither [...]
About
The About page has finally been updated.
Nokia Gets ActiveSync
Thanks to Mary Jo Foley for this update: Nokia’s S60 3rd Edition phones are getting ActiveSync. I currently use Netvigour Hosted Exchange for my mail, which allows me to have Outlook synchronized on all my systems plus have access to calendaring, contacts and mail on my Treo 700w (which btw, is underpowered and just plain [...]
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