I managed to take a day off yesterday so Sharon and I took the opportunity to watch a few movies we’d been looking forward to seeing. The first cinema we headed to wasn’t open which …

Few things irritate me but one that does is people leaving empty voice mail messages - an occurrence which happens frequently to me. I’ve just had one now 1 minute 55 seconds in length and …

Going in to the computer room this evening to change the backup tape I notice an amber warning light blinking away on the PDC. Firing up the HP Array Diagnostics Utility I find the following …

Microsoft has a detailed description of the ports used by various flavours of Exchange, but in a nutshell:
25: SMTP 53: DNS - Domain Name System 80: HTTP and RVP (for IM …

Following on from my previous post ‘Just gimme the Fax‘.
I was having difficulty getting hold of an evaluation unit for the Brother MFC-8870DW from dealers who insisted on telling me that there was no way …

Further to my recent post “Backup Connections: Is more ever enough? when I left that post I was waiting for BT to arrive on site to investigate the problem. As it turns out I received a …

There were 1625 (1158) mail messages held up this morning (from over the weekend), the breakdown is as follows:
Blocked Domains: 18 (24)
Blacklist Addresses: 718 (570)
False Images: 168 (144)
False Positives: 7 (4)
SPAM: 664 (365)
False Web Enquiries: …

Following an article in Techworld entitled Microsoft takes on virtual servers by Elizabeth Montalbano it seems that Microsoft has modified the licensing of some of its server management products to take into account virtualisation technology …

This is primarily for my reference so I don’t have to keep searching the Internet for paper sizes.

It was bad enough this morning getting into the office to discover the primary Internet connection being down. This is a 2MB Telewest Megastream leased line which most of the time happily provides the bandwidth …