Monday, March 31, 2008

StupidFilter

StupidFilter looks pretty interesting.  This is an open source project to filter rampant stupidity.  When they release the core engine source code, I will write a plugin for LifeType.

Monday, March 24, 2008

links for 2008-03-25

Daily sending quota exceeded


My wife has been having a problem sending email.  We currently use Google Apps for our domain, and when she sends email, she gets the following message:




5.4.5 Daily sending quota exceeded




This message is supposed appear if an account has sent more than 500 messages, or more than 100 when using a mail client.  The problem is that she has only sent 2 messages within last 24 hours.



 I have filed a trouble ticket, and have posted a message on thir Google Group.  In the mean time, I have set up one of our Godaddy email accounts, to allow her to send outgoing mail.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

OpenDNS and Verizon Wireless MMS


As soon as I got my Samsung SCH-i760, I configured the phone to use the DNS servers from OpenDNS.  Everything seemed to be working fine, and web browsing seemed faster.  A while later, I tried sending an MMS message, and it just didn't work, but an error messages was shown.



I finally, got around to tracking this down today.  It looks like Verizon uses a MMS server that has a host name that only resolves from inside the Verizon Wireless network.  So OpenDNS is not able to resolve this hostname.



Once I switched back to the default servers I was able to send picture messages again.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Opera Mobile


The built-in web browser in Windows Mobile is pretty bad.  It doesn't support tabs, and it the rendering of html is not that good.  A while ago I tried Opera Mobile, and I really liked it.  Right about the time that I was going to register it, Skyfire was announced, and this browser looks very interesting.



But, I haven't been accepted to the public beta yet.  Since I have still been frustrated with the built in browser, I registered Opera Mobile. 



Now, maybe I will look into Opera for Linux.

Printing Across VLANs: A Secure and Scalable Solution

In my previous configuration, I used a CUPS server with multiple network interfaces to enable printing from computers on restricted networks...