June 2006

19" widescreen monitors are awesome!

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 06/23/2006 - 7:47pm

I'm having a major bout of monitor envy. At work, after my suggestion, they upgraded the office so everyone is on LCDs and as part of the deal the Geek gang got swishy new 19" widescreen Viewsonics. They're awesome. With a native resolution of 1440x900 it has 1.6 times the screen real estate of a 15" 1024x768 screen, has lots of width to place windows side-by-side (useful for code comparisons) and doesn't make you crane your neck to look from top to bottom, unlike some larger screens.

World's best spam filter available for MS Exchange

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 06/13/2006 - 4:06pm

The (IMHO) world's best spam filter, SpamAssassin, is a tricky beast to get running under Windows due to its UNIX-focused application structure. Thankfully a company has put it together with a lovely graphical interface for use on Windows and calls it No Spam Today. To make it really useful you need to add on an extra product called SpamMover which moves all messages marked as spam into a separate folder. Easy-peasy.

Kaspersky Security likes being enabled

Submitted by Damien on Mon, 06/12/2006 - 6:51pm

If you are testing out Kaspersky Security for Exchange 2003 but decide you want to see how Exchange's built-in IMF works in comparison without first uninstalling Kaspersky Security, do not set the Kaspersky services to disabled, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

Two reasons to dislike MS Exchange

Submitted by Damien on Mon, 06/12/2006 - 5:24pm

After the last few weeks I'd like to mention, perhaps re-itterate, two reasons I particularly dislike Microsoft Exchange:

TIP: Fixed positioning in IE 6

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 06/07/2006 - 7:31pm

A little tip if you're trying to get fixed positioning to work in IE6. One problem with IE6 and older is that they ignore the perfectly valid position:fixed; style, which is often used along with either top:0px; or bottom:0px; to have a static header or footer respectively. Luckily someone else has spent a vast quantity of time fiddling with Javascript to get this to work, so you and I don't have to. Enjoy.

http://www.doxdesk.com/software/js/fixed.html

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