Recent Writing

If you've got an application that sends messages via your Exchange 2010 server, using SMTP, you might've noticed that things have slowed down a bit. The reason for this is because the Exchange 2010 receive connectors have a "MaxAcknowledgementDelay" setting, that will inform you if the delivery is successful, within a certain time frame. If the …

If you're having fun with a pre-2007 version of Outlook, or any non-Microsoft product trying to talk MAPI to an Exchange 2010 server you might be interested in knowing that the defaults have now changed in the new version, and it expects traffic to be encrypted. This caught us out today as we'd only tested Outlook …

Sunday night, thanks to the magic of the Ents24 iPhone application, I had the privilege of seeing Paul and Storm followed by Jonathan Coulton at Bristol's newest venue, The Tunnels. Holy crap was it awesome, and I'm glad I went.

I was flicking through todays NANOG mails, and came across a thread on layer 2 vs layer 3 to the top of the rack. Linked in one of the messages was Dani Roisman's presentation on redundancy models, from June of this year.

I'm sorry that I couldn't do this to your face, but I'm writing to tell you that it's over. You might not have seen it, but I've tried to be loyal, but the temptations were just too much in the face of your problems, which I'll admit seem quite small and petty to begin with - …