Monthly Archives: March 2008

Microsoft Search Comeback?

Whilst looking at the stats for www.cleartext.net I noticed that we got more links from Windows Live than Google so far this year! Is Google slipping, or is Microsoft getting a handle on search, or is it all to do … Continue reading

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Dell To Acquire MessageOne

Not sure how I missed this, but I did; ‘Dell will acquire MessageOne, a provider of on-demand e-mail management, compliance and archiving services, for $155 million in cash, the two companies announced Tuesday. Dell said the deal would add to its growing … Continue reading

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Cable connection throttled again

I’m getting p*ssed off with BigPond throttling my connection 3/4 of the way through the month, I have a 10Gb cap but rarely reach it, when I do there’s always a spurious multi-gigabyte download in a time slot when I … Continue reading

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Mobile spam

200 million cellphone users hit by SMS spam tidal wave in China  Recently reported by Sophos, go here for their story.

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It’s all about the support

Support is our driving force at Cleartext, if customers are happy they spend more and give you a bit of leeway when things go off the rails. It’s for this reason I’m recommending JoomlaPlates as a Joomla template provider. During … Continue reading

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Online Armor

Online Armor gets Firewall of the Year from Computerworld Editor in Chief, Scot Finnie. Go here for the full article on Scot’s blog.

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What no CTO?

I just noticed that one of our competitors is missing a CTO, the previous candidate lasting around 9 months. Of course I shouldn’t complain about a competitor being rudder-less, after all a technology company without good direction means more business … Continue reading

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Hosted archiving

I used to wonder why companies would want to archive their email externally, given they’d almost certainly be charged a premium. That is until I got a call from a client needing help ‘fixing’ a tape archive that wasn’t restoring. … Continue reading

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Hybrid Hosting

My previous post has prompted me to drop this post in from the new Cleartext Systems web site, which isn’t live yet. (will be by the end of the week). We’ve (Cleartext via Cool Bananas) been a NetRegistry reseller for … Continue reading

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OECD Broadband Portal

Whilst looking for stats on broadband I went to the OECD Broadband Portal and spent an hour getting depressed by reading the various reports, snippets like this aren’t good reading if you live in Australia!; Prevalence of explicit bit/data caps … Continue reading

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Creating Clearspace plugins

Clearspace is an excellent example of a product that makes something more by combining some parts. I bet many of us have thought about how best to use technolgies like blogs, wiki’s and forums. Well think no more and just … Continue reading

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Jabber/XMPP update

Following on from my earlier post about reviewing technologies I’ve been having another look at the Jabber/XMPP community and there are some interesting things going on. OpenFire from Jive Software now includes public IM gateways in the open source version, … Continue reading

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I had to laugh…

Fifteen years ago a young anti-virus industry thought it was cool to have little graphics displaying viruses, then we all grew up and realised enterprise security professionals want trustworthy sensible people looking after their systems. Imagine my laughter when I … Continue reading

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Joomla 1.5 ‘feature’

Whilst building a new site using Joomla 1.5 I needed to display an RSS feed icon without text, unfortunately the standard mod_syndicate module doesn’t let me save the ‘Text’ Module Parameter empty, it defaults to ‘Feed Entries’.My fix was to … Continue reading

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PDFAssassin

No doubt kicked off when PDF spam started arriving in out inboxes PDFAssassin attempts to scan PDF files for ‘spammyness’ and adds the Spam Assissin score; http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfassassin/

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x-authentication-warning

Had an issue today with spam filters blocking legit emails and it turns out that it was because the sender was spoofing the ‘from’ address. I suspect this is common when web based apps get http servers like Apache to … Continue reading

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Launching ClearEmail EDM

We soft launched a new service this week, ClearEmail EDM ‘Outbound Email Campaign Management’. This service complements our inbound email filtering and content control (which also has outbound mail control). Our one paragraph description goes like this;

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India outsourcing…

I was talking to a client yesterday and a rather unexpected nugget of information surfaced, their Indian office out sources parts of their IT to Australia. We all talk about out sourcing TO India but it seems the tide is … Continue reading

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DSPAM

I’ve been doing my bi-annual review of the anti-spam and anti-virus market place and completely missed DSPAM until Mike from Tall Emu (the Online-Armor people) sent me the link. After a couple of hours research and spotting that local firm … Continue reading

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Netscape browser dies…

I remember when Netscape started up in 1994, I’d just moved to the USA to help setup Dr Solomon’s the anti-virus company. I remember Mosaic that preceded it and I now use Firefox and Safari. It seems a shame that … Continue reading

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