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Bluehost and Wikka wiki Upload limits

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, there are a few limits I can see. First, Wikka Wiki has a 2MB limit, but it also looks like the underlying hosters has a 2MB limit as well. You have to change the php.ini files in the wiki /uploads directory to break this.
Bluehost= explains how to do this. Note that this thing is [...]

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Kerio vs. Exchange for Entourage, Mac OS X, iPhone and Blackberry

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Entourage, Exchange

Well we’ve narrowed down choices to two choices, two hosters against one of three desktop and two mobile clients. Here are the parameters:
Support for either of, in order:

Mac OS X application. That is Mail, iCal and Address Book that are native to OS X and which is fast.
Entourage 2004 or 2008 from Microsoft and typically [...]

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Apptix Exchange hosting

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Exchange

My buddy Pascal told me that there are lots of Exchange hosters. Said I might try Apptix as one company. So off to asp-one.com for a trial. Some quick notes:

They don’t support Mac users in the admin console. They actually require Internet Explorer to run their administrative UI.
The actual site is a little confusing. The [...]

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ISPs like Shaw block port 25 and break your email

February 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Internet

Argh, why do internet providers act so smart! Sometimes I can’t seem to send email and right now I’m discovering that this is because certain ISPs will block the SMTP port 25 (send mail) and 465 (secure send mail), so mysteriously at some access points, you can send mail and at others you can’t. Some [...]

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