JT on March 15th, 2010

I’ve been using a car holder to place my iPhone in view while driving, which allows me to use the GPS and mapping capabilities safely. Trying to eek out as much value as I can, ya know. The only trouble is at night the maps can be very bright – even with the backlight turned [...]

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JT on January 30th, 2010

My original post included a quick and dirty test on raw hard drive performance using HDTach to give me an idea of what I was working with with my new DroboPro. Of course true to any benchmarking test – there are so many metrics that can be tested that may be able to give me [...]

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JT on May 7th, 2009

I think Microsoft may have finally created an OS that can replace Windows XP. Of course I’m only speaking about my personal experiences with the latest incarnate of Windows, but it’s all pretty positive. Same spec’ed laptop as the Windows 7 Beta review I posted a while back. Running its native Vista 64bit installation, I [...]

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JT on May 1st, 2009

The college recently purchased a new Sophos Email Security appliance model. It was very easy to setup and I’m looking forward to having PureMessage filtering our spam and crapmail attacks, it’ll be a good thing. The Active Directory integration is not a polished as their Web Security appliances’ are. We have two WS1000 appliances, also [...]

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JT on February 22nd, 2009

Now to be perfectly fair, I’m not going to blame all of my issues on BlackBerry or their Enterprise Server. I will however, consider their method of message relay and integration with our environment quite a hack and their support staff a challenge to work with, especially late at night. That being said… here’s my [...]

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