Archive for May, 2007
Over the last few weeks I've seen the load of our external mail gateways rise steadily. Our MailScanner installation uses two virus scanners to detect malware: Clam AV and a commercial product. The CPU utilization of the machines was going through the roof.
This morning I activated Mail::ClamAV, tweaked two settings in MailScanner.conf and the results [...]
The days when you and I, IT professionals, could dictate the technology used in business purely on its technological merit, including fitness for purpose, are gone.
Chris Linfoot
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I always say: You Get What You Pay For. I have been proven wrong. The event was free of charge, and He who is Small but perfectly formed, She who must be obeyed, the A/V Bloke, She who must also be obeyed, the Token American and The Mad Scotsman did an incredible job in organizing [...]
Man with American accent: "are you Irish?"
She with very strong Eastern European accent: "no, I'm from Lithuania"
Man: "oh, sorry. I'm not very good with accents."
The mad ……man: "Has anyone used Vista? I used it for two months and it is shit!"
The Wow! Is here in Dublin. The creme de la creme has come to the ILUG2007, and I'm being attentive. The first three talks by IBM's Alan Lepofsky on Innovation, Mary Beth Raven with a very humorous discussion on the "why"s of Notes 8, and Daniel Nashed on "Demystifying Domino messaging".