Today was an unwanted day of tinkering with and explaining spam defenses. Spam comes in many formats. The two that affect me the most are email spam and comment spam. Email Spam At the office, I have many layers of spam defenses. One of those layers are DNSBLs. DNS Stuff maintains a list of roughly …
Category Archives: Fraternity
Timely Content
When the Cross & Crescent magazine switched to an online-only format 15 months ago, I also decided to release its content monthly instead of quarterly. Doing so has given my editorial team the ability to publish more timely content. This month, we included a feature story on Jim O’Brien (Cincinnati 1970). O’Brien was the Colt’s …
Reintalling Windows 2000 Server
For two days, I’ve spent most of my time in a closet filled with computers trying to revive a Windows 2000 Server.
iexplore.exe application errors
When Internet Explorer fails, troubleshooting can be difficult. Because it is well integrated with the operating system, it is difficult to uninstall and reinstall. Today, one machine kept displaying the following error: iexplore.exe – Application ErrorThe instruction at “0x30cb0a4f” referenced memory at “0x00000000”. The memory could not be “written”. Click on OK to terminate the …
When Hard Drives Attack
When my co-worker JB took a hammer to some old server hard drives that we wanted to destory, one of them decided to fight back.