Too many messages for Outlook Express
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Recently one of my Mitel SME Server clients took two weeks off. When he returned, Outlook Express told him he had 23,000 messages waiting on the server! Unfortunately, Outlook Express couldn’t bring any of those messages to his PC; it just hung.
Why run your own mail server?
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First, The Consultant
Recently I was working with another “consultant”. I’ve deliberately put that in quotes because this person really lacked the skills to do the job he was doing, but for political reasons I had to refrain from pushing him out of the way and taking over. His lack of basic knowledge was frustrating, but I gritted my teeth and kept my comments friendly. It wasn’t easy.
Anyway, part of what he was doing was configuring a router. I had to hold my breath as he explained that he always left the default password unchanged because “it’s easy to remember”. After he left, and with the permission of the owner, I changed that. It’s just this funny idea I have that a router sitting on the Internet ought not to have a password that is known by a few million people and published on hundreds of websites. I’m funny like that.
Ulli Niemann Answers Investing Questions
Ulli Niemann will answer all types of investment questions, like “what kind of an IRA should I choose? How can I find an Investment Advisor? What type of mutual funds should I pick? How can I avoid being financially devastated by the bear market? How can I avoid some of the broker garbage fees?”
How to Test Your Web Headlines and Web Site Home Page to Sell More Products and Service
A client asked me, at what point do you change your Web site when not making enough sales? Within a month. To get ready for the new Web pages:
SCO Openserver release 5.0.7
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There is a lot to like in the 5.0.7 release of SCO Openserver. Support for IDE CD-RW and DVD-RAM (you need other tools to actually write to this media, but the important kernel support is built in), more USB devices (though not printers or modems), P4, Xeon, and AMD Athlon processors, UDMA 100 and 133 hard drives, PCI serial and parallel cards, LS-120 and LS-240 IDE drives (see “man Sflp”, not “sflp” as the documentation suggests) , several Gigabit network cards, and more PCMCIA support.
The Netscape server is gone, replaced by Apache, OpenSSH is built in, sendmail is at 8.11 (which of course will need immediate updating), and you now have a choice of Mozilla or Netscape for GUI browsers and Lynx is included for character mode.
Ways to Cope with the War
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
Why Production servers shouldn’t have external interfaces
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People sometimes want to use their application servers as firewalls. This seems attractive at first glance: slap in another network card, add some packet filtering, tighten the system down a bit and connect it to the outside world. Cheap and quick, but a very bad idea.
Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Software RAID
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Logical Volume Manager is now included with most Linux distributions. The RedHat 8.0 installer even allows you to create LVM volumes during initial install. LVM offers capabilities previously only found in expensive products like Veritas.
Using Meta Tags Wisely
There are certain tricks and techniques in SEO industry, which can fetch you real quick and top ranking in short run and get banned for ever, which I am discussing in this article. Before optimizing any site, always follow code of ethics and never spam.
No Cost Traffic
Everyone wants website traffic. Traffic is the key to getting sales and profits.