Mike’s Blog

September sees the launch of Cix Forums http://forums.cixonline.com/

This latest version of the web interface to Cix Conferencing is supposed to bring the masses flocking in. So far I’ve seen no mention of it in any press (Online or printed). GOK how anyone is supposed to know its there!

Still relying on the flaky old Cosy backend [...]

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This is what a normal hard drive looks like inside. Note the nice shiny mirror like surface on the platter.

 
This is what happens to your drive when an internal part breaks. This is an actual customers drive opened in a clean room by a data recovery company. Not surprisingly the data could not be recovered.

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This weeks award goes to Netcetera http://www.inetc.net/
This collection of idiots decided to use a DNS blacklist on their mail server and blacklisted my ISPs mail server smtp.nildram.co.uk. Instead of using the DNS blacklist to raise the score or flag an email as potentially spam, these morons just reject the incoming mail. Result was that I [...]

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This is something of a test for Cix Online. I’ve been a user of Cix for a considerable number of years and mainly their offline reader Ameol. They now have a web based interface (Which is awful to use but better than nothing when away from Ameol) provide by an outfit called Parkglobe. Now in [...]

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