IBM Director 5.20.x – worth using or not?

January 11, 2009

Over the past year, we have been struggling with the deployment of IBM Director and continue to discuss whtether or not it makes any sense to continue trying to get it working or abandon it completely.  Our company standardized on the IBM server platforms over four years ago, using the X-series systems and BladeCenters, all […]

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Symantec 8300 Virtual Appliance – Ultimate protection

November 8, 2008

Given our experience with GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity, we have been looking for a replacement E-mail security gateway replacement product.  Like most administrators, we know about the major players and we decided to go back and see where they were at.  We stumbled upon the Symantec 8300 Mail Security Appliance during that investigation.  From the […]

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BarracudaCentral – another blacklist black hole

November 6, 2008

No sooner had I posted about the abysmal 88.blacklist.zap, that I now find our mail servers at the mercy of BarracudaCentral.  Yet again, here is an organization totally unwilling to work with fellow mail administrators and unresponsive to phone calls or requests for information.  I have no idea how, when or why my domains have […]

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phpBB 3.0 PDF Documentation

November 3, 2008

We have been working with phpBB for a few months on a project for our sales department.  I found it particularly difficult to navigate the HTML documentation and decided there had to be a better way.  There was no “manual”, so I assigned one of my summer interns to grab all of the data from […]

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CATraxx — Music Collection Software

October 23, 2008

I have a lot of CDs and albums that I have been wanting to get into a database for record keeping and insurance.  I’ve built at least two Microsoft Access database programs on my own, but I wanted to include some reporting with cover art and additional details about each item.  After looking around the […]

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DNS Mystery

October 18, 2008

I have been fighting a DNS problem for over a month now and cannot find a solution.  The dilemma is regarding a domain that I used to have on my servers.  For about a year, the MX records for the domain of European company were changed to point at my mail server in the US.  That transition went very smooth […]

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