Battles With Boredom

When You’re Going Through Hell…

Winston Churchill said “When you’re going through hell, keep going.” Brilliant man, he was. We’ve been going through email hell. Today, it continued. For some reason, our main ticketing system, which runs the Postfix mail server, decided that it had never heard of our main XXXXXXX@paradigmcc.com email address. A simple restart of the mail server was all that was needed to fix this problem, but given that no changes have been made to this system in several days, it does give me pause as to why this problem occurred right now.

Personally, I blame Mercury.

Email Hell (Mercury Retrograde 2011)

For the last week or so, we’ve been in, what I’ve termed, “Email Hell.” Here’s a synopsis. Continue reading Email Hell (Mercury Retrograde 2011)…

Happy Data Privacy Day!

Today is Data Privacy Day! I decided it would be appropriate to pick on one of the biggest offenders of crimes against your privacy – Facebook. Continue reading Happy Data Privacy Day!…

Pocket Sized Podcast

To everyone who’s been wondering “when will Peter podcast again,” I have two words for you: “I’m back.” Continue reading Pocket Sized Podcast…

OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS, in Brazil

Just for kicks, I decided to see what Google’s Public DNS performance was like compared to that of OpenDNS, while abroad. I’d heard OpenDNS was faster in the US, and Google overseas. While ICMP reply times are certainly not the only indicator of performance, it’s safe to say they are a very big one. Here are the results: Continue reading OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS, in Brazil…