Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-22 Thread Lance A. Brown
AV Test does not think very highly of FOPE. I heard a report from the folks managing our enterprise anti-virus solution. Forefront is the only major player in the market that AV Test has "decertified". The do not recommend using it for enterprise anti-virus. http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/corp

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Disposable email addresses

2014-11-13 Thread Lance A. Brown
Assuming you are comfortable letting Abine know that much about your email... --[Lance] On 2014-11-12 2:48 pm, Adam Levin wrote: I've been using Abine's "Do Not Track Me" add-on in my browser (Firefox and Chrome). It's pretty seamless -- it detects an email address field and pops up a box ask

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem

2015-01-29 Thread Lance A. Brown
I was a relatively early adopter of Time Warner Cable RoadRunner service in North Carolina, and received 'lbr...@nc.rr.com' as my account's primary email address. I never used it for anything beyond communicating with TWC. TWC's default username policy created users by contatenating (FirstIni

[lopsa-discuss] Mailing lists vs. New Technologies

2015-07-17 Thread Lance A. Brown
Apropos of not much, I thought I'd share my recent experience with mailing lists vs. new technologies (Slack, Forum, Dicus, etc.) Recently, Elastic moved their several mailing lists (discuss, dev, etc.) to Discourse. Suddenly, no more messages in my elasticsearch inbox folder and I have to go to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] College degrees not required for a career in system administration

2016-12-16 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jerald Sheets wrote on 12/16/2016 8:41 AM: > I don’t know, folks. > > If I’ve got a req out and I get in the room someone with a degree is > CompSci and only a year or two experience versus someone with no > degree, but an A+, an LPI, and a couple years working at a computer > shop or even as an