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Heads I win - tails? not my problem

Heads I win - tails? not my problemLacks AuthenticityAlthough your opinion may be valid, but the article lacks the data (i.e. references, figures, etc.) to make it sound convincing.It still may be worth a consideration, though.Sun Numbers1. Your one junior guru isn't enough to provide sufficient coverage - you need...

Tags: Outsourcing, Benefits, Spam, junior guy, Postfix, MTA

Discussion threads 2007-01-04

NYC's new Trip Planner: promise and disappointment

No matter how many New Yorkers you ask for directions, youre unlikely to get the same answer. Unfortunately, the same has been true of the directions you get from NYC Transits website. But now, The New York Post reports, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has quietly upgraded the quality of...

Tags: Web site development, MTA, new Trip Planner, Trip Planner, subway, NYC

Blog posts 2006-12-26

Transit agencies ponder, to iPod or not to iPod

Here's an idea for a public transit agency - make subway and bus maps available for display on an iPod, so that transit customers can quickly and easily figure out how to get where they're going. It's not an idea created by government - New Yorker William Bright thought it...

Tags: agency, MTA, BART, Apple iPod

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Additional Resources

Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)

Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)Government censorship is wrong...and UNconstitutional.Make no mistake, the MBTA is a government organization.The US Constitution states "no law abridging freedom of speech".The judge who issued the restraining order is:1. an idiot2. a d_o_u_chebag3. a fool4. retardedRE: Go MIT! (or...

Tags: Government, DC-metro, Government Censorship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrist

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subway

MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subwayPrior restraintThe judge's order is clearly prior restraint on speech. I'd be shocked if it wasn't overturned on appeal. Unfortunately, the MTA will probably escape the financial spanking they deserve for violating the students' civil rights.Illusion is...

Tags: Constitution, students skill, security, security gap, subway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illusion

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...

Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Analyzing the Scalability of Graph Algorithms on Eldorado

The Cray MTA-2 system provides exceptional performance on a variety of sparse graph algorithms. Unfortunately, it was an extremely expensive platform. Cray is preparing an Eldorado platform that leverages the Cray XT3 network and system infrastructure while integrating a new revision of the MTA-2 processors that is pin compatible with...

Tags: Algorithm, Platform, Scalability, Cray Inc., Cray MTA-2 System, Engineering

White papers 2008-01-01

Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.  Guest Editorial by Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell If you are even peripherally familiar with modern computer security issues, you have heard about the current struggle to identify and repair botnet drones. These botnet networks are the primary...

Tags: Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-26

What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?

What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?False positivesHmmm.I get more than 2,000 spam per day, and that's [b]after[/b] the DNSBL filtering weeds out most of it. The automated filters might flag an occasional false positive, but I know that I, personally, have been responsible...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, e-mail, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

Yahoo scoops up Zimbra for $350 million

Yahoo scoops up Zimbra for $350 millionI personally love to see more cross platform applications with full supportfor Linux and Mac. Yahoo will have an online office suite sooner of later, but that will take more acquisitions which are not doubt coming.RE: Yahoo scoops up Zimbra for $350 millionI think...

Tags: LDAP, OPEN SOURCE, Domain names, Zimbra, Yahoo! Inc., SuSE

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Microsoft Exchange Server MTA Check (EXE)

Use MTA Check, a command line tool, to check the MTA database consistency of Exchange message transfer agent MTA and to repair the MTA database if necessary. MTA Check will analyze and correct problems in the MTA. Run MTA Check if you suspect corruption in the MTA database or see...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Storage, Databases, E-mail Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-09-05

Google may create transit maps for NYC

Google is working with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New Jersey Transit to create an online guide to NYC public transit, which would serve up maps, schedules and trip planners, Bloomberg reports.``We are always looking for ways to incorporate technology in what we do,'' Jim Redeker, assistant executive director...

Tags: Google Inc., Agency, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-26

Apple and Universal at loggerheads over iTunes

Apple and Universal at loggerheads over iTunesI can't see them not renewingI put this as posturing to re-negotiate better terms. Where else are they going to sell their digital offerings? What other market (eTunes is second and no DRM, so that is a non starter) are they going...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, CD, Apple Inc., music, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2007-07-02

911 over VoIP can mean life-or-death errors

911 over VoIP can mean life-or-death errorsNot such a big deal.If the consumer is not willing to RT*M, then he/she is not ready to adopt VOIP. Don't adopt a technology until you understand it. If the knuckle-draggers avoid VOIP, then the companies will be forced [i]by the marketplace[/i]...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, nag-message, E911, VoIP

Discussion threads 2007-06-06

Promising antispam technique gets nod

Promising antispam technique gets nodI allow two customers to "relay"through my mail server. Even though the sender's email address domain is differrent than the mail server that is sending it, my mail server's domain and IP show up in the header. This can easily be checked to see...

Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail servers, Viruses and worms, Nothing, spam filtering, technique, anti-spam, spam, e-mail, DomainKeys, e-mail server, body part, server, phishing, POPFile

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Open source is bad for vendors

Open source is bad for vendorsAny limitations?"Patents and copyrights were conceived as individual rights, not corporate goods. And open source proves that inventions can be even grander than before if rights to the work are held in common."But what about corporations such as IBM that use open source as a...

Tags: open source, Open Source IS, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (dmg)

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is Ajax-based, web client that integrates email, contacts, shared calendar, and VoIP. It provides an innovative collaboration tool for online document authoring and Zimlet 'mash-ups'. It is a complete server solution with built-in anti-spam, MTA, storage, authentication, and admin features. Desktop compatability for Microsoft Outlook, Linux and...

Tags: Collaboration Suite, Zimbra, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Linux, AJAX, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-11

M-Switch X.400 Benchmarks

This paper gives performance benchmarks for Isode's M-Switch X.400, a high-performance X.400 Message Transfer Agent. M-Switch X.400 is deployed by Isode customers in a number of solutions areas. The benchmarks re-enforce the belief that M-Switch X.400 is substantially faster than any other X.400 MTA. M-Switch X.400 supports the two core...

Tags: Isode M-Switch, Isode, X.400, M-Switch X.400

White papers 2007-01-01

NYC vs. YouTube

NYC Transit established graffiti-free bus and subway fleets in 1989. Today, “artists” are brazenly defying the anti-graffiti policy of the “largest subway car fleet in the world” and showing off their subway “art” at YouTube, to boot!“Heads NYC” is identified by YouTube as a “Director,” and he says he is...

Tags: YouTube Inc., NYC Transit, Web 2.0, Local, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Legal, Google, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Content, Social Media, NYC

Blog posts 2006-11-13

The fabric of innovation and open source

The fabric of innovation and open sourceGive it a rest, Anton[i]Would any of the effects be negative?[/i]Well, I'm inclined to think that my immediate unemployment along with hundreds of thousands of other engineers worldwide might count as "negative." I'd like to think that our customers might miss our products,...

Tags: open source, Anton, software, job

Discussion threads 2006-08-21