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Entries from July 2004

Gates Issues Antispam Progress Report

July 5th, 2004 · No Comments

I wouldn't hold your breath for Microsoft to actually follow through on this or anything else worthwhile. I'm still waiting for them to halt all development and work on security issues as they said they would do in 2002. I haven't seen anything change since then on security so why would Gates do anything useful about […]

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Commtouch Reports Spam Trends For First Half of 2004

July 5th, 2004 · No Comments

Commtouch Reports Spam Trends For First Half of 2004 – see the full article here. If you are having SPAM difficulties checkout SimpleFilter. Also reproduced here: Commtouch Reports Spam Trends For First Half of 2004: Viagra is King of Spam, 5 Countries Are Hosting 99.68% of Spammer Websites and Nearly 10% of All Spam is […]

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Rogers Cable Internet Update #40

July 1st, 2004 · No Comments

Connection has been stable since about noon on Jun 28th. Mind you when I called in either that day or the day before the rep told me he would call me back with the status on both outstanding ticket numbers (WSR01252611 and WFR00265194) but of course he did not. I'll have to make it standard […]

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Call Forwarding still sucks decades later

July 1st, 2004 · No Comments

Its approximately 16 years later and I still can't forward my own phone from remote. Lets go back into the past those many years ago when I worked for Bell Northern Research (BNR). For those of you unfamiliar with the company BNR, they were the research arm of Northern Telecom (Northern Electric before that). Northern […]

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