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Befuddling Tivo December 6, 2005

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Everytime family come and visit they befuddle the Tivo.

What do I mean?

I mean that two weeks of [insert favoured family viewing] really confuses our preferences. Instead of Pingu, Thomas, foreign language films and BBC crime dramas - we end up with US cop shows, WWII documentaries, romantic comedies and the weather channel.

Snow, I15, Gin and Cranberry

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First real winter storm of the year.

I was working in Provo at strategy meetings until late; I didn’t leave the office until 6pm.

I-15 was a nightmare. My usual thirty minute commute took almost two hours. Several inches of freezing snow on the freeway and the usual bad Utah driving.

Got home, cleared some snow and settled in. No tonic; so had to resort to gin and cranberry juice. Quite palatable actually.

ZENworks and UK National Health Service

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Talk about time to value:

Novell’s desktop software distribution products have been licensed enterprise wide in this deal, enabling the move to a pervasive managed desktop environment with a lower total cost of ownership throughout the NHS. Novell will create ‘appliance-like’ solutions using their ZenWorks technology that can be deployed across an NHS organisation in as little as two days.

The full news release is here: http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/news/news_novell

Mail, spam and viruses

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Sigh.

I keep tweaking and tightening my anti-spam rules for my mail server - but the amount of inbound spam is getting crazy. I’m catching about 95% of bad mail - and getting all viruses - but I’m looking at switching to a dedicated inbound mail filter.

I’m probably going to run SpamAssassin and ClamAV running on SLES9.