28/01/2008 In TechTalk by Brad Slavin
Fighting SPAM has never been easier and harder at the same time. I know that it sounds like a contradiction but there is so much technology out there to protect you from spam that it is tough to know what actually works.
We have managed thousands of individual mailboxes over the years and there seems [...]
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25/01/2008 In TechTalk by Brad Slavin
This may seem like random lines to a lot of you, but it is the code to the largest theft of private user data to date.
#! /bin/bash
a=$1
LIMIT=$2
dir=$3
for ((; a view$LIMIT
if [ `grep -o 'Pictures: [0-9]*’ view$LIMIT | awk ‘{ print $2 }’` -ne 0 ]
then
grep -o ‘http://[a-z0-9A-Z/._-]*.jpg’ view$LIMIT | wget -q -i - -P [...]
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21/01/2008 In Business Resources, TechTalk by Brad Slavin
For those of you who have been long time subscribers to TechTalk you know that I am not a fan of Microsoft Windows Vista. In fact I think it is the one piece of Microsoft software that actually hinders business productivity. I have clients who switch almost every week from Vista back to [...]
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20/01/2008 In 15 Minutes, Business Resources by Brad Slavin
Its always nice to see your name in print. Today I found this article about me in Sys-Con.com. The Virtualization Journal is one of the top industry publications for server virtualization.
It is always nice to be syndicated and mentioned in an International Media.
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20/01/2008 In Broadband Wireless by Brad Slavin
No one likes to see someone in their same industry struggling to keep subscribers happy and informed when there is a catastrophic network outage. At this point Disc Wireless http://www.disc.net has been down for almost 3 weeks. Their subscribers have left in droves, seeking alternate connections to the Internet.
I suspect that DISC [...]
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