Vermyndax on April 20th, 2008

“Gateway is the first to come out with an all-in-one computer with one cable!”
“Gateway is a technology leader in the industry!”
“Streamlined and beautiful!”
“Intel came to Gateway and said, ‘We want to design the best all-in-one unit ever made!’” (This line was borrowed from Steve Jobs’ speech, no?)
“We have 2GB of RAM, so it’s true [...]

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Vermyndax on April 17th, 2008

There’s one thing that’s been on my mind recently. I’m sure you’re familiar with the news that Apple has been delivering Safari by default to Windows users with iTunes installed. I think just about everyone agrees that this is committing a fairly heinous crime against your users, but let’s analyze a different take [...]

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Microsoft reveals new content partners, DRM for Silverlight: “Microsoft unveiled on Monday new content partners for its Silverlight technology and provided details of a forthcoming DRM (digital rights management) technology for its multimedia platform.”
(Via ActiveWin.com Headlines.)
Did Microsoft not get the memo that DRM is dying?

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Vermyndax on April 4th, 2008

EXCHANGE IS A DICK.

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Vermyndax on March 23rd, 2008

Some of the #morphixers may find this hard to believe, but I’m not going to defend Apple on this latest round of controversy.
Trying to sell your browser by suddenly including it in the newest autoupdate procedure for Windows users was a bad move. It reeks of that “unfriendly neighbor” feel like Microsoft forcing IE4 [...]

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Vermyndax on March 7th, 2008

Do your users try to get through the day with Entourage 2004 or Entourage 2008? (Believe me when I say “get through the day.”) Do you have your domain controllers locked away behind a VPN? Are your users depressed that they cannot access GAL information from outside your iron curtain?
E’rage users should [...]

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Vermyndax on March 6th, 2008

Once again, the iPhone rules the press with a heavy dollop of enticing news.
There’s a lot here on the surface and a lot below the surface. Let’s scratch the surface first.
The announcements about Apple licensing ActiveSync are interesting. There was lots of speculation in this regard and greetz to those who called it. [...]

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Full text of MSFT e-Mail: Microsoft execs on Vista problems: “Full text: Microsoft execs on Vista problems
A federal judge today unsealed internal Microsoft e-mails that have been used to support the plaintiffs’ case in the lawsuit over the ‘Windows Vista Capable’ program. Snippets were previously read aloud in court, but the full messages go further [...]

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Vermyndax on March 5th, 2008

Here’s a late night pondering for you as I traipse off to bed.
Ask yourself: does the subject matter of a blog control what browser share you’re likely to experience on your site?
Given the stats that I’m getting, I can say (without much of a doubt) that yes, that’s true…

# #reqs #pages browser
1 5132 2910 Firefox
4002 1992 Firefox/2
986 837 Firefox/3
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Vermyndax on March 4th, 2008

I meant to post about this over the weekend, but… well, I forgot. I didn’t see much chatter about this over the leap day, but here it is.
On a system that uses Postfix 2.2.9 on SLES 10, Postfix started acting quite wonky on February 29th, 2008. In a standard Postfix+Amavis+ClamAv setup, you actually [...]

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