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The internet is a scary place!
If you are an IT professional providing customers with Internet connectivity solutions you know that the internet is a scary place. Back in the dark ages (before 1993) when things started out everyone using the internet trusted each other. Unfortunately … Continue reading
Posted in Stuff, Tech
Tagged e-mail, glug, internet, internet connectivity solutions, linux, linux users group, local network, luser, mail, mail list, man in the middle attack, network, software, Tech, website, windows
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All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.
I get lots of e-mail, about 300 messages a day (excluding spam). Ok admittedly I don’t really have to deal with all of it immediately but if you let it go you very soon have thousand of e-mails waiting in … Continue reading
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Tagged e-mail, INBOX, Mac, mac mail, mail, mail client, mail clients, mail list, microsoft, Mutt, pleasure, postfix, pretty pictures, sourcecode, spam, suck, windows
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Running those legacy apps
Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called … Continue reading
How to fight Zombies
Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Tech, Stuff
Tagged brute force, clueless, Countermeasures, countries, FUSSP, ICT, idiot, Mac, machine guns, mail, mail list, mail server, microsoft, network, open relays, open source, police, postfix, software, spam problem, Spammers, suck, Tech, ultimate solution, user, war, weapons, windows, work, zombies
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All Software sucks!
Wordpress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised).
I have created this blog about a month ago and used some plugins which screwed me around mightily to the point that I deleted the whole lot and started from scratch. Being the total optimist I also upgraded to the new and supposedly improved version 2.5. From 20 years of experience with software I know that installing something a day after its release is really a spectacularly bad idea. The whole lot will probably implode on me again.
Here are some other systems I recently worked with that displayed serious suckage:
- Windows Vista: Run away as fast as you can.
- Openldap: The system with zero documentation. Unfortunately it is pretty much the only ldap server available if you use an “open source” system. Try upgrade this sorry excuse for a database system, and find yourself without useful data very soon.
- Opensuse 10.3: Is there any reason for the online update system to be as slow as trying to run through molten tar?
- Exchange 2003: Somewhat useful office memo system that people buy to run e-mail. Mere mortals like me simply cannot get this beast to be standards compliant, so you end up installing a “gateway” e-mail server ( postfix, sendmail or exim) to handle mail to and from internet.
Posted in Bad Tech, Stuff
Tagged authentication, bad idea, blog, e-mail, exchange, fun, internet, ldap server, mail, mail server, memo system, mere mortals, open source, open source system, openldap, optimist, plugin system, postfix, runes, software, suck, systems, upgrade, user, vista, war, widows, windows, work
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