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10/17/2006

Zimbra anyone?

by @ 11:38 pm. Filed under tech

Has anyone jumped from Exchange to Zimbra? What are your experiences? What do you think?

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Microsoft "Exchange" Hosted Solutions using… Postfix?

by @ 11:37 pm. Filed under tech

I was pinged today about some emails sent to Microsoft that were NDR’ed with messages seemingly from a Postfix mailer. The “sender” was a bit confused as they though Postfix was for *nix… While it is possible for Postfix to run on Windows, it would be pretty unusual. The fact that the NDRs were to MSFT personnel made it even odder.

The machine that returned the NDR was mail74-red-R.bigfish.com. A little digging and it seems bigfish was part of Frontbridge which was acquired by Microsoft last year and became…. you guessed it, Exchange Hosted Solutions… EHS.

There is even a Microsoft FAQ page that mentions the Postfix servers…

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/services/faq-filtering.mspx

I think it is more than a little humorous for MSFT to name a Unix Postfix solution “Exchange Hosted Solutions”…

  joe

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I know someone like this…

by @ 8:59 pm. Filed under humour

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Camels…

by @ 8:53 pm. Filed under quotes

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

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Obstacles…

by @ 8:51 pm. Filed under quotes

“The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.”
– John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

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Smile

by @ 8:50 pm. Filed under quotes

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
– Andy Rooney

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LSD vs BSD

by @ 8:49 pm. Filed under quotes

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD.
We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.
— Jeremy S. Anderson

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Instructions For Life

by @ 8:31 pm. Filed under general

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don’t believe all you hear.
4. Don’t spend all you have.
5. Don’t sleep all you want.
6. When you say, “I love you”, mean it.
7. When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.
8. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
9. Believe in love at first sight.
10. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.
11. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
12. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
13. Don’t judge people by their relatives.
14. Talk slowly, but think quick.
15. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”.
16. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
17. Call your mom.
18. Say “God bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.
19. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
20. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
21. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
22. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
23. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
24. Marry a spouse you love to talk to. As you get older, his or her conversational skills will be as important as any other.
25. Spend some time alone.
26. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
27. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
28. Read more books and watch less TV.
29. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
30. Trust in God but lock your car.
31. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
32. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with a current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
33. Read between the lines.
34. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
35. Be gentle with the earth.
36. Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it.
37. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
38. Mind your own business.
39. Don’t trust a person who doesn’t close his or her eyes when you kiss them.
40. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
41. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
42. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
43. Learn the rules, then break some.
44. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
45. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
46. Remember that your character is your destiny.
47. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

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If God Were a Programmer…

by @ 8:23 pm. Filed under humour

I was digging through some old files (like 1995/1996 old) today and found a couple of old gems I will post… this is one of them…

   joe

Some of you programmers expressed irritation about being described as eccentric in last week’s top ten list. To placate you, we present an excerpt from some email forwarded to us by one of our engineers…

Some important theological questions can best be answered by thinking of God as a computer programmer:

Q: Did God really create the world in seven days?
A: He did it in six days and nights while living on cola and candy bars. On the seventh day he went home and found out his girlfriend had left him.

Q: What causes God to intervene in earthly affairs?
A: If a critical error occurs, the system pages him automatically and he logs on from home to try to bring it up. Otherwise, things can wait until tomorrow.

Q: How come the Age of Miracles ended?
A: That was the development phase of the project. Now we’re in the maintenance phase.

Q: Who is Satan?
A: Satan is an MIS director who takes credit for more powers than he actually possesses, so nonprogrammers become scared of him. God thinks he’s irritating but irrelevant.

Q: Why does God allow evil to happen?
A: God thought he eliminated evil in one of the earlier revs.

Q: How can I protect myself from evil?
A: Change your password every month and don’t make it a name, a common word, or a date like your birthday.

Q: If I pray to God, will he listen?
A: You can waste his time telling him what to do, or you can just get off his back and let him program.

Q: Some people claim they hear the voice of God. Is this true?
A: They are much more likely to receive email.

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You know its going to be a bad day when…

by @ 8:16 pm. Filed under general

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