Internet
Don’t forward virus warnings, delete them
If you’ve ever received a virus warning from your friends, family or co-workers, you’ll know what I’m talking about. These virus warnings are hoaxes and are untrue reports.
For example, the Olympic Torch virus is a hoax and was identified back in early 2006, according to UK based anti-virus company Sophos.
You are encouraged NOT to forward [...]
Bare LFs in SMTP 0×800CCC0F
Recently one of my clients received the following error in Windows Mail on Windows Vista:
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject ‘Fw: ‘, Account: ‘BT Yahoo! Mail’, Server: ‘mail.btinternet.com’, Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: ‘451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.’, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): [...]
Alternative name servers
If you’ve ever had a problem with your ISPs DNS name servers then you’ll probably find this very useful.
The domain name system (DNS) is a way of resolving a host name to an ip address.
* Dns resolved example.com to 208.77.188.166
To do this, you need DNS servers or name servers, which are usually provided by your [...]
When broadband fails
The best part of last week I spent trying to resolve an issue for a business who was experiencing downtime with their broadband.
The broadband was working fine, nothing had changed, then it went off.
