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Vermyndax on October 21st, 2009

Tony Maro, the CIO of Evrichart (and also my boss from my old job prior to NASA) was interviewed by ZDNet! Tony is an awesome, knowledgeable and forward-thinking guy.  He’s way ahead of his time in terms of CIO leadership and the IT industry.  He makes this look easy and roots his decisions in common [...]

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Vermyndax on October 6th, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife One of the industry buzzwords that needs to go to the grave is the user “experience.” Don’t quote me here, but I recall this buzzword being developed by Microsoft as part of the marketing campaign behind Windows XP.  XP was supposed to be “experience” or “expert” or “Xtra stuPid [...]

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Vermyndax on September 28th, 2009

Are you curious about the hard stats of messages running around your organization? Try this one in powershell on your hub transport server: get-messagetrackinglog -start “mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss” -end “mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss” -eventid “send” -resultsize 9999999 | measure-object This will pull stats for messages that were “sent”.  To pull the number of messages received, change the “eventid” [...]

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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase A coworker sent this along.  I’ve had this issue on a few contacts and didn’t really have time to delve into it. Name removed to protect the innocent and good intentions.  Be very careful with this and make sure you have a backup of all data that you plan to manipulate. — [...]

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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2009

If you’re having stupid amounts of trouble with your plugins loading in Safari 4 on Snow Leopard, go to your Finder and open /Applications.  Right-click on the Safari app and choose “Get Info.”  On that screen, you’ll see a checkbox to run the app in 32-bit mode. Check that. Restart Safari if it’s open. Now [...]

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Vermyndax on September 23rd, 2009

Image via CrunchBase At WWDC 2009, I stood up in a session on Snow Leopard server and lightly rattled Apple‘s cage about its poor scaling guidance for the product. They were spending a great deal of time talking about the benefits of Wiki Server 2, but there was little to take away from the session [...]

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Vermyndax on August 7th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase When NetNewsWire went with Google Reader syncing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck.  I swore off Google Reader quite some time ago.  Indeed, I was using NNW to avoid Google Reader.  Now I’m being forced back? It was time to look into splitting up with NNW. I haven’t [...]

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Vermyndax on August 2nd, 2009

Twitter has given me a real problem.  It’s sucked the inspiration to blog out of me, 140 characters at a time. Sometimes, smaller and faster may not be better. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on June 15th, 2009

I’m back from WWDC 2009.  What a wonderful time!  Sorry I didn’t update much about it, I was just too busy with my head buried in all the Apple goodness.  Oh my, do they have some good stuff in the pipe for you. One of the greatest things about WWDC is the fabulous music they [...]

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Vermyndax on April 15th, 2009

Hi, just dropping in from raiding the lands of healthy heroes and creamy young virgins to let you in on a quick Apple Mail tip. Do you use Apple Mail in an environment with Outlook?  In particular, do those Outlook users prefer HTML mail?  Do you receive mail from them with a microscopic font size? [...]

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