Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
30
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Security. Tagged: Security, spam, email, roadrunner, rate limiting, policies. Leave a Comment
I have noticed over the last few days that we have had Roadrunner messages in our main e-mail gateway stuck in our queue with the following error: 56FE71501A1C 1695 Fri Jul 30 08:32:19 noreply@nowhere.com (host hrndva-smtpin02.mail.rr.com[71.74.56.244] refused to talk to me: 421 4.7.1 – Connection refused – - Too many concurrent connections from source IP) [...]
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22
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Social Networks. Tagged: blog, faith, Internet, social networks, Technology, Websites. Leave a Comment
I submitted my first article for our new Faith & Technology blog today. We are starting this up as a collaborative effort between several clergy and lay people around our Conference. Its purpose is to discuss technology and the various ways in which it impacts faith and our local church community. This is my first [...]
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15
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Internet. Tagged: google, Internet, Security, web, https, protocol, browsing. Leave a Comment
As I was navigating the internet today at work I noticed a new Google feature that seems rather interesting: Google has released the beta version of their https encrypted search website. Google probably didn’t encrypt their searches from the beginning due to the increased overhead of the https protocol. After several test searches I cannot [...]
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7
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Linux, Open Source Software. Tagged: open source, Internet, Linux, email, mailman, gnu. Leave a Comment
The Conference mailing list server is down again. I’ve been monitoring disk utilization on the list server for awhile now in an attempt to keep the server up until after the building move. Once I realized that we were going to run out of space again I decided to take the server down preemptively. We [...]
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12
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: annual conference, greenville, news room, social networks, Websites. Leave a Comment
Annual Conference is over! This was a very good year. All of our systems functioned properly throughout and we had an extra day to set up our operations. The extra day really helped us with making sure that everything was working before we got started. From an operations standpoint I hope we never lose that [...]
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10
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Security, Social Networks. Tagged: google, facebook, Security, web, myspace, gmail, redirect, malware. 1 Comment
While managing the network infrastructure at our Annual Conference I have run across a weird redirect issue. All of the computers in the News Room running Windows XP, Vista and 7 started redirecting to MySpace pages. In the beginning it was redirecting to an actual profile. After an hour or so the website started returning [...]
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8
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Church, General, Internet. Tagged: ac2010, annual conference, nccumc. Leave a Comment
We have spent the last two days working to set up the technology infrastructure for our 2010 Annual Conference. After this initial work is complete I spend the rest of the week sitting in the back waiting for something to break. I also help manage the live video stream and any miscellaneous work that needs [...]
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2
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Software, Websites. Tagged: e-mail, google, google apps, nccumc, Telecommunications, Websites, work. 2 Comments
We have been working over the last few months to set up and deploy Google Apps to all of our various e-mail users at work. In case you have never heard it before Google has bundled many of their online offerings (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites) into a company branded version that [...]
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3
Feb
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet. Tagged: bandwidth, conference, infrastructure, Internet, nccumc, Websites, work. Leave a Comment
I have been working with AT&T to complete our bandwidth upgrade at the home office. The project took a lot longer than I had originally hoped and we ran into several unforeseen issues. It’s finished now though. It’s fast too!
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