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Mar102010
Lyris Listmanager 10.2d released
Lyris has updated Listmanager. The updated version 10.2d has a build date of March 1, 2010. Lyris does not use their own product. When Lyris updates their list management software, they post it to their website but don’t offer an email list to inform their customers. Customers only find out about updates and patches by [...]
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Oct112009
City of Boston emails now in searchable PDF format
City of Boston emails converted to searchable PDF
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Aug302009
Meditation camp
July 16, 2005 I returned Thursday from meditation camp in Shelburne, Mass. For those who don’t know, Vipassana is a course where you sit 12 hours a day and meditate and not talk for 10 days (www.dhamma.org). Many of my cousins have done it and speak highly of it, and i thought maybe it would [...]
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Aug302009
Helix Server on VMware
Realnetworks Helix 13 server has little chance of running in a virtual machine, because of antipiracy protection. Rebooting the VM is likely to cause Helix to regenerate the machine-id, which prevents the Helix Server service from starting. I’m running Helix on Win2008 OS in VMware ESX. If this happens to you, you have to call [...]
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Aug242009
GovDelivery is still around?
I see GovDelivery mentioned in the news over an Obama email problem. It reminds me of when my government employer lost big on GovDelivery about two years ago. We used it for a month, convinced ourselves it didn’t perform nearly as well as promised, and then tried to cancel it for a partial refund of [...]
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Jun182009
Microsoft KB unwisely forces TLS
For PCI compliance on an IIS5 or IIS6 server, SSL2 should be disabled and 40-bit should be disabled. This Microsoft KB includes a .reg script to disable everything except for 3DES TLS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245030/en-us However, TLS is not enabled by default in IE6 which makes this script problematic. IE6 clients without TLS enabled will present a [...]