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Colo vs Managed servers

John McKown brings up some good points (see link) with regard to colocation vs managed servers, most of which I agree with.

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Greylisting (check greylisting.org) is one of many anti-spam techniques in use all over the Internet today.

The basic premise is that when a new connection comes in and offers email from to , you check your database to see if you have already seen this information (a triplet of information - IP address in /24 notation, envelope-from, envelope-to). If you have seen it, make a decision to accept or continue. If you have not seen it…then issue a temporary failure and get ready to close connection.

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Well, Parallels has released their virtulization software, Parallels Desktop for Mac after a lenghtly public beta. (June 15th, 2006 announcement)
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We Hate Tech is back

Do you like podcasts?  I don’t really.

Do you like technology?  I don’t always.

WHT was kind of funny and was nice to have on in the background while working on different things…

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Exchange - why all the fuss?

I have been playing ‘exchange guy’ for a couple of months now and I think I now understand why corporate is in love with Exchange.

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