deep thoughts, by ed fisher

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In this post I explain how email archiving software solves many of the inherent problems that exist with the current email servers and email server setups. As you will see, storage space,...

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I was working with a client today to configure a couple of NLB pairs for ADFS. The design called for a pair of federation servers (FS) on the internal network, and a pair of federation...

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Squeee! It’s a Doctor Who Christmas episode tease! I’d hate to be all smithereening.

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

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All I want for Christmas is GFI LANguard

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The past is exactly that...passed. You can waste your life away pining for what has happened and cannot be changed, you can burn yourself up holding grudges and assigning blame, or you can brush it off like so much dust and keep moving forward. That's not to say you should pretend the past never happened, or that there is not something to learn from it, but no good will ever come from dwelling on, or regretting, what cannot be changed.

me...apparently I am become philosopher, which is preferable to death.

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I’ve been a member of LinkedIn practically since the beginning, and have joined (and followed) several groups as a lurker, but today was the first time I actually engaged in a thread. A...

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Generally speaking, the most important application running on most enterprise’s networks is email. While LOB applications may be needed to run the primary manufacturing line, or a CRM...

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Dear Apple,

It is with heavy heart and furrowed brow that I scribe this missive to you, for I (like so many others on teh interwebs) have made a mistake, and find that I am between the...

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If you run a business of any size these days, running a network security audit is an essential process. The computer network in just about every organization contains information, the...

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You've got to lose to know how to win.

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Hi everyone. I know it has been a while since my last post…things have been very busy at work and some things have come up in my personal life recently that have together conspired to...

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I received a comment on this post about configuring outbound access rules, asking me how to select a specific ip.addr on the external interface to use as the global NAT (sorry, I still...

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I followed one of those little notifications Gmail sometimes puts at the top of the page to read about an upcoming feature, and tumbled across a five-step security checklist Google put...

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This just in folks. A leaked ISO (DVD, ~ 4GB) of a private technology preview of Windows 8 is available now. While certain features, menus, and options appear to be a little rough around...

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Dear everyone everywhere,

FYI if you tell me something specific, and ask me to act upon that information, and I do, but at some point between the telling and the acting, you changed your mind without telling me, and then you get pissed at me for doing what I originally was asked to do...well, you can go frak yourself.

jus' sayin'

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Whether you are building a new email infrastructure, or just getting ready to upgrade your existing one, take my word for one thing if nothing else…build for BIG-ARSE mailboxes. Think...

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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and that is exactly what happened to me recently. Once again I had a hard drive die at home, and once again I had let my backup script...

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It sounds really cool to talk about Bayesian filters…kind of like Dilithium crystals, but without the nerd baggage that comes along with knowing what those are. Of course, many an email...