A follow up to Smartertools answers the cry on the fight against spam with smartermail 4.0. Alot of clients have been asking about how we’re handling spamassassin with Smartermail 4.0. It’s no secret that spamassassin on a windows server runs horribly slow. If more than a handful of domains are involved I have no doubt […]
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A few months ago we were invited by the smartertools team to become a beta tester for Smartermail 4.0. The biggest change in Smartermail 4.0 for us is the improved spam fighting techniques. With the earlier versions of Smartermail, RBL checks and bayesian filtering was released, unfortunately spammers were already aware of bayesian filtering and had
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I upgraded my home PC to Vista today from XP Mediacenter edition and earlier this week I had an email that the new OneCare 1.5 beta was released and “NOW WORKS WITH VISTA”. So I figured I’d install the new version of OneCare. First, you have to uninstall OneCare before installing a new version, the
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Today I was told “PHP is not secure on Windows” and “if you ran PHP on a windows server your server would get hacked“. To add insult to injury, it was then implied that running PHP on your server would steal resources on your server that would otherwise be available to your ASP or ASP.net applications
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This was pointed out to me by my colleague Carlos, If you want to connect to the server console of a Windows 2003 server through terminal services (if you don't know what this means, it's the same as if you connected a keyboard, mouse and monitor to the server and logged in directly from in
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We host several thousand domains and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of email users so battling SPAM and keeping spam from originating from our network is a daily part of the job. This blog post is a really a warning that every mail domain administrator, webmaster, domain owner, etc should pick their password for
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Well the master of the one ups has one upped VMware, making their Enterprise Edition of Virtual Server 2005 FREE! Best of all when run on top of Win2003 Enterprise Edition R2 you get 5 Virtual machines free. You can pretty much guess what platform we'll start seeing windows virtual servers popping up on all
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IIS6 has a new feature that allows for logging errors to a seperate file. However, little documentation is immediately available on how to configure this or atleast little know. Anyway, here's a link to a KB article at Microsoft that details what additional properties are available for loggin in the HTTPERR# log files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832975
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Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI
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So in the Virtual Server how to on setting up a 2 node cluster there was mention that you should select the SCSI drive emulatored because the IDE emulator was slower than the SCSI one and that this was true even if you were running on IDE disks. Strange, right? Virtual PC Guy recently wrote
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