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September 30, 2003
The Server of Amontillado
The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn’t find the server. Working with Novell Inc. (stock: NOVL), IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.
Thanks to Vince on the ASAE tech list for the link and the Poe reference.
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September 17, 2003
VeriSign Wildcard
This article provides a pretty good summary of the issues around VeriSign’s recent action to take over all unassigned domains in .com and .net.
VeriSign redirects error pages
Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign’s surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters.
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August 11, 2003
Death of the Marketing E-mail Signature
I’m having more issues with important e-mail getting caught in our corporate spam filter. In almost all cases they are messages from vendors that contain a signature block with a marketing message of some sort. I think these types of messages are doomed from now on. Imperfect spam filtering is a fact of life for the time being. Due to that, people will have to learn how to craft their messages in a way that does not trigger them if they want to communicate via e-mail. A good start is to pull those marketing messages from your signature.
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June 1, 2003
Direction of Netscape
Joel points out some potential strategy problems at the Netscape division of AOL/TW given the new deal with Microsoft:
Yo, Netscape employees! This poor sod Adam Lock is working in his spare time to save all your jobs. Wake up.
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May 21, 2003
Why I Love the Web
I find random stuff like this Washington D.C. Climate Summary page that will calculate temperature and precipitation comparisons for the region over the past 40 years.
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May 7, 2003
Atari Lives
Atari is back. Well, Infogrames bought their IP and renamed themselves, but it is still fun to see that logo getting a new life.
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April 2, 2003
Internet Usage Statistics Page
This page lists links to recent reports on Internet usage statistics sliced and diced just about any way you could think of. Came across it when researching some info for a coworker.
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January 23, 2003
Mozilla User Agent Spoofer
Here is a niftly little plugin for Mozilla: the UAbar. This allows you to change what user agent Mozilla identifies itsself as to web servers. This will let you access those sites that require IE or even NS 4.7 with Mozilla. (They may break in Mozilla but at least you get to judge that.)
It does have a rather nasty bug that you can work around but you should be aware of it before installing UAbar.
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January 22, 2003
Introducing Ella Rose Gammel
I’ve been on a blog sabatical the last couple months as we prepared for and then had a new arrival in our family. Ella Rose Gammel entered the world on January 3, 2003 weighing in at 5 lbs. 14 oz. Babe and mom are both very healthy and recovered quickly from the delivery. What a great way to start off the new year!
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October 15, 2002
MS Software Subscriptions
I suspect that both individual users and corporations value control over their checkbooks — and ownership of their software — quite a bit and the subscription model will have to be built around substantial incremental value in new software, new access to additional function and support, or other customer seductions to get this idea off the ground.
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