Monthly Archives: March 2010

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Grrrrr

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Electricity on March 31, 2010 by HAL

At present in Northern Ireland we are experiencing widespread blips in power. This started with the snow that was forecast last night and has persisted until this morning. Nagios has flagged up quite a range of line and router problems across the province. Its hard to believe that in this day and age – with […]

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We need a bigger firewall

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged CBL Exchange 2003 SPAM Wireshark on March 31, 2010 by HAL

Well actually we just need to add some additional security checks in relation to spam mail being generated from an Exchange 2003 server. In this case we used wireshark to identify where the traffic was coming from and then locked the exchange server down further to make sure it could not be used to generate […]

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Jumping the Wireshark

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software Tips and tagged Packet Sniffing Wireshark on March 29, 2010 by HAL

A blacklisting issue for a client led to dusting of my Ethereal experience and employing the new flavour of the veritable packet sniffing tool to narrow  down smtp traffic from a specific machine. The product installation from www.wireshark.org was quick and clear in its instruction. Installing on a laptop connected to the external facing internet […]

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Cutting through the forest of info

This entry was posted in Interesting Review Software and tagged Exchange SMTP Log files Sawmill on March 23, 2010 by HAL

While researching a mail server blacklisting issue for a client – I found myself  struggling with the amount of info strewn about inside an exchange smtp log file. I turned to the web to locate something that would be more amenable to slicing and dicing the info to get a clearer picture of the problem. […]

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IE soon to be 9 ?

This entry was posted in Interesting Internet and tagged IE 9 on March 22, 2010 by HAL

Looking at the limited preview of the next IE release makes me wonder where the focus of Microsofts development in the area of its browser are headed. Okay some of the demos are interesting in a technical way – such as the svg Asteroids demo but the other enhancements might pass users by unless they […]

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An Ace pad – plain paper with a digitiser

This entry was posted in Gadgets Review and tagged Digimemo on March 15, 2010 by HAL

A colleague recently mentioned having seen a demonstration of a plain paper pad sitting on a digitiser that used a standard inking pen to work. Intrigued I started investigating the product which turned out to be an ACECAD Digimemo. The uses for the product – especially because of its low tech interface i.e you use […]

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Lotus – Live In Concert !!

This entry was posted in Interesting on March 10, 2010 by HAL

Nah – I just made that up – the Lotus Live in question here is IBM’s offering to compete with GotoMeeting and other online products. I recently spent a morning with IBM and Teamsolutionz ( a Northern Ireland based IBM Business partner ) looking at the virtues of IBM’s cloud based products and specifically the […]

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USB and virtual machines – a solution to your problem

This entry was posted in Gadgets Interesting Must Have Virtualisation and tagged DIGI ANYWHERE USB on March 4, 2010 by HAL

At a meeting the other day – a client for whom I’ve done some virtualisation work asked me to look into a problem that he has had with blackberry handset provisioning with a virtualised BES server. The background is that he has diffculty connecting handsets to the BES for provisioning due to an extremely poor […]

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