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Federal Court Rules on One Party Consent for Recording Calls

Posted by penrod on August 24th, 2010

Individual states have leeway in whether two party consent is required to legally record a call. Georgia is a single party consent. In other words, if you and I talk on the phone, it’s legal to record the call if…

Spam Assassin – SMTP Auth

Posted by penrod on July 30th, 2010

I noticed the other day that my users sending mail via an authenticated SMTP account would still get blocked as spam. I would prefer that this not happen.

By default, Postfix does not add a header which identifies mail as…

Great iPhone4 v/s Droid comparison.

Posted by penrod on June 25th, 2010

Here is a great chart that compares the following phones…

iPhone4 (ATT)
Droid X (Verizon)
Droid Incredible (Verizon)
Evo 4G (Sprint)
Google Nexus One (Unlocked)

Click Here

USB Overdrive

Posted by penrod on June 11th, 2010

At work, I use a Dell enhanced keyboard that has several special function keys plus a volume control.

Up until today, I was unable to use the volume control with my Apple Macbook Pro.

Found a cool shareware ($20)…

TD Revolution

Posted by penrod on June 7th, 2010

Quack!

As most everyone knows, my home website, plus a few others are hosted at my house using Comcast’s commercial cable modem service for the internet path.

Problem is that this design presents a rather obvious single point of…

Residual Security

Posted by penrod on June 1st, 2010

    Residual Security

Google has it defined as a term belonging to the securities / financial market. But, I think it’s a worthy term to use for the IT / data security world.

A company will start out with…

Square Barcodes

Posted by penrod on May 8th, 2010

BarCode

Cisco Switch / Router SNMP Interface Index Persistence

Posted by penrod on April 23rd, 2010

snmp-server ifindex persist

Why?

Link: Here

Auto-MDIX

Posted by penrod on April 20th, 2010

Auto-MDIX (automatic medium-dependent interface crossover) is a computer networking technology that automatically detects the required cable connection type (straight-through or crossover) and configures the connection appropriately, thereby removing the need for crossover cables to interconnect switches or connecting PCs peer-to-peer.…

RFC 2795 – The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

Posted by penrod on April 5th, 2010

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt