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Comcast Issues Continue

If you find you can't surf on your Comcast connection they are having intermittent issues with their DNS server.  DNS is the server that translates www.hotmail.com to the actual ip address.  when those have issue you can't surf.  Comcast DNS is having issues...

More on the Comcast-Level 3 spat

Folks are piling onto Comcast but I am thinking they are wrong.  There's one section in this post that blows Level 3's arguments so full of holes swiss cheese looks solid: So what’s the issue? Level 3 told the world that Comcast had hit it up for more money in order...

Comcast: Pay Or No Play(Not Really)

Karl has this one nailed.  Just because Comcast is the bigger of the two doesn't make it automatically wrong.  L3 is trying to push the colocation costs of CDN traffic to Comcast and L3 got Called on it.  Here's a post on NANOG I found that very well illustrates...

Red Hat Releases RHEL 6

I've been waiting for this.  There's some performance issues with this latest version while virtualized but Red Hat is very good about fixing regressions like this.  I'm waiting the month or two it'll take for Centos to get their next version done for my future...

Oracle’s hostility towards open source continues

You have to read both pages of the article...don't just scan it.  Oracle has been slowly dismantling Sun's entire portfolio and they are continuing that trend with Java. Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit • The Register.

It’s time to move to postgres

InnoDB Storage Engine Dropped From Oracle MySQL Classic Edition. Oracle owns Innodb and now MySQL.  It's time to move from Mysql to postgres.  Not one of the mysql forks..but postgres.  Oracle is beginning the squeeze of Sun's properties.

IN Support of Another NPO

I have been doing IT work as a volunteer for a local radio station WTHU for a few years now.  Slowly but surely we have been moving along the technology track int he right direction.  We have a stout server in wash state that handles our streaming.  The costs for this...

Server Donation Part 4

Well i got the servers in and really didn't want to wait for the 12u rack...mainly because it's not int he budget right now.  I took one of the servers and have installed untangle on it.  I now have 4 network cards in the thing.  One is red(internet), one is blue(free...

Cellular Really Isn’t Worth it Anymore

Sprint just plain sucks.  We've been customers for over 10 years..yet they say we've only been there for 8.  That's not what irks me.  What really irks me is the constant threat of account suicide I have to face anytime i call sprint for anything and they have to so...

Possible phone outage.

*IMPORTANT NOTE TO ECC CLIENTS* ECC is currently embroiled in a dispute with my phone provider Sprint-Nextel.  ECC may loose phone service during this time.  If you try to call and cannot get through please use the contact form on this site to reach me.  My internet...

SMB’s do not Have to Pay for A/V Anymore

I have severals tweaks with group policy that combined with a decent a/v malware is reduced to a small chance.  Now that this is now true as soon as they open up the partner branding I have one client that uses avg, another that uses Kaspersky(which is currently...

Zimbra is about ready to go

I just need to get the final list of current mailboxses and get the DNS switched over.  Staff meeting this Monday to see if they'll give the green light.  I have found several extensions(called zimlets) that really extend the featureset of the Zimbra platform.  I know...

More Donated Server News

Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up.  It's a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd's in raid 1.  This is now running Untangle as the firewall.  This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs SATA disks) box...

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