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Large Hadron Collider and OOXML

vitaliy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:30:50 +0000

…1600 pages for every detail of the making of a LHC, 6546 pages in the specs for OOXML and it’s still not enough detail to let you open and create OOXML documents. Obviously the LHC is not adequately complex.

Vista Ad Negotiations

vitaliy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:15:14 +0000

Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 3 of 3 - Kerio Mailserver

brad — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:27:53 +0000

Kerio MailServer 6.5 - The Exchange Killer Kerio MailServer, like Zimbra, has until only recently been an 'almost but not quite' Exchange alternative. It has offered Outlook support and integration with Active Directory since 2002, but did not initially support groupware features such as calendaring and shared contacts properly until years later. It wasn't until 2007 that Kerio began to coalesce into an alternative to Exchange -- and with the release of Kerio MailServer 6.5, its transformation into an Exchange killer is complete.

Server Moved.

brad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:42 +0000

I've moved www.brad-x.com into colocation. Until now the server had been operating on various types of local business class connectivity, providing limited bandwidth capacity. This quickly proved inadequate and went unresolved for a long time, so I'm glad to say the server is finally where it belongs, on 100mbps fiber. Hosted users are being moved one at a time, so your virtual host may still seem slow for a while. Not to worry - once these are all moved, they'll be faster than ever. This will provide some good opportunities for the community of users surrounding this server, and I hope to see some good growth come from it. Thanks go to everyone who's supported brad-x.com in the past, present, and future. May there be plenty more to come.

Community Support

vitaliy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:15:59 +0000

The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts. The two comments below were [...]

Ubuntu is Detrimental

vitaliy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:14:28 +0000

It is impossible to have a conversation about Linux without someone brining up Ubuntu Linux. Whenever I mention that I dislike Ubuntu people either giving me the introduction to Linux speech or simply look at me funny. The matter usually comes up unexpectedly and I do not have adequate time to get my thoughts together [...]

iChm

vitaliy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:25:14 +0000

iChm is a chm reader for Mac OS X, before iChm the two most popular clients lacked some of the major features and are absolutely hideous. iChm is Cocoa based, has an excellent tabs feature, is able to search through documents, and it has tons of other useful quirks.

Safari blowhard switches to Firefox 3, film at 11

brad — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:24:34 +0000

After ages of preferring Safari I think I’ve just convinced myself to switch to Firefox 3. I’ve added a few extensions to make it work pretty nicely the way I like, and fill in some features it’s missing (and some that Safari itself doesn’t have): FoxMarks, so I can sync my bookmarks on all machines where [...]

Quit blocking Google Analytics.

brad — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:39:07 +0000

I've noticed a trend, particularly among Mozilla Firefox users who have the NoScript extension installed, to block Google Analytics from running. This isn't Google spyware...

Dutch Telecom

vitaliy — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:30:02 +0000

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Akamai

vitaliy — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:26:17 +0000

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Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 2 of 3 - Zimbra Collaboration Suite

brad — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:25:34 +0000

For a long time, Zimbra has been an 'almost but not quite' Exchange alternative - it offered the web GUI and the Outlook compatibility, but not the standards based calendar protocol (CalDAV) or the mobile device support of its big brother. Zimbra's latest version, which has only been in the wild for a few months, is different.

Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 1 of 3

brad — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:50:03 +0000

Part 1 of 3: Workgroup/Corporate Collaboration - The Phantom Menace For years, workgroups and corporate environments have needed a solution that combined a mailsystem with collaborative tools, like a calendar and shared contacts. For years, this solution was only provided by Microsoft in the form of Microsoft Exchange. For years, Microsoft Exchange was bar-none the best tool [...]

Getting poor call reception on your iPhone 3G? Turn off 3G.

brad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:04:51 +0000

Here’s a good tip for you iPhone 3G users: 3G network coverage in many parts of North America is quite poor, even though coverage maps may indicate otherwise. While 3G is the big hype, especially since the release of Apple’s 3G handset came out, its deployment in the New World (and even some parts of [...]

WordPress for iPhone

brad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:59:48 +0000

This is my first post from the iPhone. It’s been a long time in coming, and there have been several hangups. The 2.0 iPhone firmware presented me with the App Store, and the WordPress iPhone app appeared shortly afterward. Thing is, the app crashes repeatedly when I enter my login info. Once I’ve figured out why, [...]

Copyright Regime versus Civil Liberties

vitaliy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:22:42 +0000

MacVim

vitaliy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:47:34 +0000

Every proper geek is faithful to his text editor, thus the great battles between vi and Emacs users. Working with UNIX servers taught me how to use VIM. I came across MacVim project, Cocoa front-end to the powerful VIM editor that integrates with the OS X desktop. I can now use the same editor, and [...]

Juniper Links

vitaliy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:28:22 +0000

Juniper Networks was started in 1996 with the goal of taking over the high-performance networking world. Ten years later Juniper Networks sidestepped all the competition and took the number two spot right behind Cisco. They hold 21.8% of service provider, 29% of high-end enterprise routing, and 38.2% of core and edge routing markets! While looking [...]

Worst Network Security Book Ever

vitaliy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:05:44 +0000

Last night I have been going through my books researching various distributed denial of service mitigation strategies. While browsing the index of Guide to Firewalls and Network Security: Intrusion Detection and VPNs by Greg Holden the following grabbed my attention I have purchased this book for my Network Security class from last semester. There is no [...]

New Network

vitaliy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:35:54 +0000

Couple of weeks ago I called my Internet Service Provider to discuss various packages that would allow me to host my own servers. After reviewing the offered packages I have decided to upgrade from a residential to a business line. Business packages come with five static IP addresses, 30 Mbps downstream, 5 Mbps upstream, and [...]