stuff on support

open source in the workplace

Monday, 6 February 2006 9:26 pm by noel
posted in firewall, software, stuff, support

i recently got a comment from ace about a post on outlook express that i feel deserve a longer reply. here’s his comment:
why would a security paranoid system admin use outlook ?????
use thunderbird it is better than using that outlook
support opensource software!
for starters, i do support open software. i use it and recommend it in [...]

support for tech support

Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:33 am by noel
posted in stuff, support

i am in tech support. once in a while i get ask some help from companies that supply services for us or one of our clients in situations that are beyond my reach. to give you a background, i was asked by a client to add a couple of e-mail addresses to their e-mail host. [...]

can receive but cannot send e-mails in outlook express

Tuesday, 24 January 2006 8:26 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, support

if you can receive but cannot send out e-mails then it is likely that your mail server requires you to give your username/password combination before it will allow you to send out e-mails. this is sometimes called smtp authentication. the username/password combination would be the same combination you would use when receiving e-mails. this is [...]

computer not connected

Tuesday, 24 January 2006 7:08 pm by noel
posted in network, support

in a couple of instances i found one or two workstations has no access to the internet or local area network. in those instances i found out that the local area network connection in those workstations has been disabled. to enable the lan connection again just follow the following:
open control panel and look for “network [...]

protecting your yahoo id

Monday, 23 January 2006 8:27 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, stuff, support

most of us have a yahoo! mail address and quite a handful of us use it for business purposes. we usually access our yahoo! mail account either from our houses or from our place of work. but sometimes we would access our yahoo! account in an internet cafe which most security people say may or [...]