Revealing Blocked Outlook Attachments

Ever since Outlook 2000 SP1, Microsoft has felt it necessary to protect users from themselves by blocking potentially unsafe attachments from being executed. Outlook’s behavior is to receive the email and prevent the user from opening the MIME attachment by displaying a message. Ironically, there’s no mechanism inside of Outlook’s UI or options to disable [...]

Exchange SMTP Forwards

Minor thought today: I had always thought outbound SMTP mail forwarding rules in Exchange had to be enabled from the client through an Outlook configuration. Found out today how to do a mail forward through creating an Active Directory contact, then, setup forwarding on the mailbox to the contact – overcoming the fact that AD [...]

Google and Amazon – Head to Head

Amazon’s new search engine, A9, (www.a9.com) is now available for public consumption. A student pointed me in the direction this evening; apparently A9 uses extensive metadata to tailor the search experience, including “remembering” the context of your last searches to increase relevance. You can also include your own notes in the search results and review [...]

Responding to the Churchill Essay

So troublesome it is to find ourselves in a retro-McCarthyism over Churchill’s essay, Some People Push Back that the governor of Colorado has asked for Churchill’s dismissal; only recently did Churchill concede his chair position of the University’s ethnic studies program. The fallout of the situation appears, to me, larger than that of Churchill’s opinions, [...]

Cool Tool That Rules

Found a fantastic tool for diagnosing common DNS-related issues: www.dnsstuff.com. I was troubleshooting an MX-record problem at a client’s today and found its email routing test extremely helpful in identifying a firewall constraint. Highly recommended! Russell Mickler, CISSP MCSEPrincipal, Mickler & Associateswww.micklerandassociates.com(C) 2005. All Rights Reserved.

ruup4it?

Of interest for anyone with teenage kids – ran across a cipher for teen cell phone and IM lingo (http://www.netlingo.com/). It will allow you to decipher all of crazy acronyms that kids use during their chat sessions. They even have a hard copy, e-book, book on tape, and a searchbar plugin that allows for instant [...]

Cell Architecture Debuts – End of the 80×86?

IBM announced the commercial release of their Cell microprocessor capable of simultaneously threading ten instructions unlike Intel’s Hyperthreading technology that emmulates a dual-mode SMP platform. According to the linked article, the chip has nearly twice the transistors of a P4 (235 million over 125 million) and can operate at clock speeds exceeding 4 ghz. Are [...]