Category: Technology

  • Changing hosting providers

    I’ve been hosting this site on a Xen host in the UK for the past year – it was cheaper than running the server in-house, and the uplink bandwidth is certainly more than the 1 Mbit/s that my home ADSL is capable of.  However, in the past 6 months or so, I’ve noticed a distinct…

  • New tricks: Exchange “Send As”

    For the longest time, my understanding was that Exchange only allowed ’send on behalf of’ through the delegation interface (and thus stamped in the message headers). Turns out that if an admin with sufficient rights accesses the Security of another account, they can add the ‘Send As’ option to a listed object (ie, account). Learn…

  • Cooking with VoIP

    As a current resident of the UK, I miss one key thing about phone calls in the US and Barbados – they’re free when local. All calls in the UK, be they local or international, cost money. Enter VoIP in the form of a Sipura SPA-2000 – a packetizer. Plug a phone in the RJ11…