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IM making the switch…

Posted on April 7, 2009 by David Banes

Well after years using multi-protocol chat programs like Adium to access my Hotmail, Yahoo!, .Mac and Jabber accounts I’ve made the switch to a ‘pure’ XMPP (Jabber) chat client. At the moment that’s Psi as it’s multi-platform running on Mac, … Continue reading →

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Hosted messaging platforms

Posted on October 14, 2008 by David Banes

At Cleartext we’ve been using the @Mail platform from Calacode, chosen because they are an Australian company (so there’s local support.. cough) and because their platform is in use by lot’s of ISP types, like iiNet. @Mail has been very … Continue reading →

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VPS with 2 and 4Gb :)

Posted on June 10, 2008 by David Banes

I’ve been looking for a VPS solution that offers 2Gb or more for a while now, and Slicehost have something that may run Clearspace!

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Hosted archiving

Posted on March 25, 2008 by David Banes

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

Posted on March 24, 2008 by David Banes

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

Posted on March 24, 2008 by David Banes

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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Media Temple hosting review

Posted on January 10, 2008 by admin

I’m finally retiring the 6 year old Mac G4′s that have been hosting for friends and family. They run OSX Server but as Apple piles on the upgrades, updates and fixes they’ve been getting slower and slower to the point … Continue reading →

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Joyent: Slingshot

Posted on November 28, 2007 by David Banes

And while I was looking for Flex related content I found Slingshot another excellent idea for deploying desktop apps. This one is a bit like Google Gears allowing browers apps to run offline.

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Servers

Posted on July 14, 2007 by David Banes

I’m re-organising my servers and have to make some hard decisions about what hardware and OS’ to use for various applications, what to run myself and what to move to virtual or dedicated hosting. I’ll update this post when I’ve … Continue reading →

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