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PALLADIO BETA TEST FOR LINUX |
Palladio provides email security and message sweeping services for Unix based mail systems.
Palladio lets you:
- Reject SPAM mails
- Look for pornographic content
- Monitor email usage
- Control bandwidth usage
- Prevent address harvesting
- Integrate virus checking
The product was previously integrated into the Uniplex environment, but we are now preparing a stand-alone system for securing any Linux (or Unix) based email system.
We will shortly be going to beta-test of Palladio for Linux and we are looking for volunteers who wish to help us test the product.
You will need:
a) a linux email connection using SMTP
b) about 1 hour to install and configure
c) a little time each week for a month to update us on your experience
We are also interested in anybody running a virus checker on the linux system too.
If you would like to take part, please drop an email to betatest@c2000.com with your contact details and we'll be in touch with more information.
See http://www.c2000.com/products/uao_pal.htm for more information
AUTOMAILER - DISPATCH MAIL AUTOMATICALLY |
AutoMailer automatically dispatches files as email-attachments.
The files you wish to be mailed must be stored in a user-defined, so called "autoprocessing directory". AutoMailer periodically polls this directory for changes and if a new or modified file is found, it will be e-mailed.
Sends new or modified files only (optional)
Saves copies of mailed files (optional)
Deletes mailed files (optional)
User defined time in seconds. to poll
Logging (optional)
All you need is a TCP/IP connection to a SMTP Mailserver.
The Windows 95/98 version is free, the NT version is a commercial product.
See http://www.c2000.com/software for more information
RELIABILITY SURVEY RESULTS FOR WINDOWS NT AND 2000 |
Sunbelt recently published figures for their reliability survey of over 1,000 respondents who are NT and Windows 2000 adminstrators.
The bottom line? They reckoned Windows 2000 is twice as reliable as NT and 3 times as reliable as Win 95/98.
Our opinion is that (a) we hate the lack of reliability in Windows NT, (b) we've been using Windows 2000 all the way back through the beta's and have been consistently impressed with how stable it is. Even on beta systems the machines just "run and run".
Now, we’re not known as Microsoft fans, but Windows 2000 is good and it's nice to see some independent (and cynical) voices expressing their positive opinions of the product.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
SERVICE RESTARTS IN WINDOWS 2000 SERVER |
Windows 2000 has had some really nice little updates in the management of services. Here are two.
Firstly, when you just need to restart a service, you no longer have to hit the stop, then start buttons, there is a restart button on the toolbar (a box and arrow |> sort of style).
Secondly, you can select new recovery actions if the service should stop for any reason. They can be found on the Recovery tab of each service and they are:
Take no action
Restart the Service
Run a user defined file
Reboot the machine
So your control options in case of service crashes are greatly extended. About the only thing it can’t do is send you a mail if Exchange crashes…
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
QUICK WAY OF ADDING A NEW ROW TO A WORD TABLE. |
You already know that if you just keep hitting TAB at the end of a table then new rows are added automatically. But what if you want to add a row in the middle of the table? Just click at the end of the row OUTSIDE the table and hit Enter, you get a new row in the middle of the table.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
SWAMPED BY EMAIL: 5 PROBLEMS - 5 SOLUTIONS |
We all know the general principle now that email can make us less productive. Since the introduction of email removed the "old media" restrictions of phone and letter we all now get involved in many more communications with our co-workers and others.
Studies of interactions in the office show that generally you can communicate frequently with around 6 colleagues daily and a larger number for less frequent contacts. Of course email knows no bounds and regular exceeds those limits. That in turn causes problems with continuity, follow-ups and priority settings.
There are a number of issues arising from this:
1) Deskilling: Tasks previously handled by junior office staff are now handled by senior staff. For example its common for senior managers to read all their emails.
2) Over distribution: Sending that memo to an unnecessarily large number of people. The "cover-your-back" mentality or just "for-your-info".
3) Responding rapidly: The instant minute by minute interaction of email compared to the week by week postal mail communication is increasing the volume of messages we need to handle. But also messages focus on smaller parts - you deal with one issue and 2 hours later another related response comes back. It would have been easier to handle them all at one time.
4) Poor communications: poorly worded, over-long, not thought through. When a sender responds quickly and can initiate more correspondence easily where one well written letter sufficed, it now takes maybe 10 emails.
5) Extended contact: workers are often contacted far more frequently by people outside the organisation. This raises issues in terms of customer contact management, internal communications; priority setting and communication channels.
Now, that's not to say that all these things are bad in their own right, but we maybe need strategies to bring these changes into the organisation and make them effective and efficient.
1) Delegation: Secretarial and support staff should handle incoming (and maybe even outgoing) emails. Just as you traditionally did with paper correspondence.
2) Restrict email distribution: Only send emails to those who really need to know. If you are on the receiving end, gently ask people to take you of their mailing list.
3) Restrict emails to essentials: mostly you don't need to send a "thank you for your message"
4) Deter and/or warn the senders: for those staff who don't read their emails regular think about auto-replies when mailboxes are full. "Maibox is full, try phoning"
5) Think before you write: If you are asked one question and you reply to it, are there other implied questions or obvious follow-ups you should also answer? Similar, if asking a question - are there other related issues you need to raise?
Is your writing clear - when responding to an email, have you included enough of the original text for your answer to make sense? Have you stripped off the unwanted parts of the message that could add confusion.
See http://www.c2000.com/papers for more information
BEEP ON CAPS LOCK |
It's happened to us all more than once, you've hit the cAPS lOCK key without realising it and everything's gone wObBlY!
Well, goto Control Panel, Accessibility Options and select Toggle Keys. Now when you hit Caps Lock (or Num Lock) you get a loud audible tone to warn you.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
SEEN ON THE INTERNET - A SLICE OF REAL NET LIFE |
Topic: Re: [Rant] Bring back the Squats!!!!!!!
From: Matthew Maggio
Newsgroups: rec.games.miniatures.warhammer
Richard Lobinske wrote:
> >OR WE'LL STEAL ALL YOUR BEER!!!!!
> >THEN WE'LL THROW IT IN THE RIVER!
>
> That's alcohol abuse and will not be tolerated.
Yeah, you don't waste beer! Didn't they teach him anything in
school?
See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
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