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Spam and firewall server upgrade

More memory for the firewall and spam server – it’s been getting hammered recently – over 1000 spam emails per day.

Hopefully this means email for Grandpop, Rachael and everyone in Utah will be working better.

(Just a clarification – it’s just the family in Utah who gets mail through this box – not the whole of Utah..)

Hardware retirement..

It’s always sad when old hardware dies.

Time to kill off the last old Compaq box:

cpq_proliant_800

A bomb proof Compaq Proliant 800. Running as a backup server for six years now.

I’m on the lookout for a replacement – anyone from Dell, IBM or HP offering some eval kit?

Vista, HP and drivers for a HP Photosmart 7150

At last HP have released basic drivers for the HP Photosmart 7150 for Vista.

They describe these as “basic” – I’ll report progress later.

This download includes a Print Driver only. This driver makes it possible to use the basic functions for the printer. HP will not be providing a Full Featured Software and Driver for this product; therefore, some functionality may be lost when you use this product with Windows Vista.

Driver is available via www.hp.com – the direct link is here.

PGP and my brick of a laptop

Somehow my PGP passphrase got corrupted; there’s no way back.

PGP support tried – but my brick of a laptop needs a rebuild.

I was disappointed at how seemingly fragile the passphrase piece is; the support guy at PGP said he’d never seen it before.

Hmm.

Back to a new build; if it happens again I’ll be somewhat upset..

Laptop fun

Somehow the SATA drive in my new Thinkpad is screwy. The surface test is good; but PGP Whole Disk Encryption doesn’t like it. It doesn’t recognise my passphrases.

I’m back up and kinda running on my ‘old’ ATA drive in my new laptop; it’s faster but the drive is slow and I’ve lost a little data.

I’m going to get a USB-SATA enclosure and see if I can restore the drive.