Please see the end of the article for the update and resolution. Are you a customer of MaxCDN? Did you receive an email spam earlier this week from Lisa Freese and Catchpoint? Those two points, odd as it may sound, are related. I've explained before how I use Google Apps and its catch-all ability to generate a unique email address for each site I sign up with so I can label … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
32-bit Internet Explorer crashes for every page visited on Dell OptiPlex 790
Background: Co-worker had just re-imaged a number of Dell OptiPlex 790s with Windows 7 SP1 64-bit and 32-bit. After the computers were imaged, he ran through the rest of the standard preparation procedure. Opening Internet Explorer and trying to take it to another website, it immediately crashed. Trying different sites, it consistently crashed whenever you tried to load a new … [Read more...]
XKCD’s Holistic Browser is a new way of stumbling the web
Have you ever been bored and felt like you reached the end of the Internet with nothing else to find? Social web services like StumbleUpon help you find new items on the web that others would recommend. XKCD, the maker of fine stick figure comics, has a new side project available for testing called The XKCD Holistic Browser. Basically, you type in a web address and hit 'Go'. … [Read more...]
AppDeploy.com evolves into ITNinja
Back in 2008, I shared about AppDeploy.com, a great resource for IT Pros that are working on deploying applications. It provided a variety of information with its application knowledge base. There could be little tips like the command line parameters that allow for a silent deployment or where to download the .msi version of the installer. It has become quite the community for … [Read more...]
Please do not spam my sites to promote your products, DISH Network
As a website owner, I see a lot of spam. Along with the usual "lottery winnings" and "work from home" opportunities in my e-mail, I receive more in the form of blog comments or messages from the contact form. A lot of it is jibberish, broken English, and nonsensical or selling what is clearly a scam product (SEO, viagra, etc). Fortunately some plugins and filters catch a lot of … [Read more...]