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XWall
Sep 3rd
We have finally managed to get our anti-spam software, XWall, installed. This was one of the few enterprise pieces of software which used Exchange AND used Bayesian filtering.
We have a free 30-day trial, and it took us 19 days to get XWall and Norton AV talking properly (problems were on Norton’s end). So we have 11 days to teach and evaluate this software and if it works well enough we will purchase it.
I know that I’m looking forward to 300-700 less spam messages per day, and that our main mailbox lady is looking forward to 5000 less per day. Hopefully this works out :)
The Wireless Journey
Sep 3rd
Well, it’s beginning, slowly. We are finally joining the wireless revolution here at work. I guess in some ways we did 3 months ago when we went from a wired to a wireless T1 connection, but this is much more hardcore.
Beginning next week, we will be “wirelessing” the IT and Creative/Media departments here. It’s 15 PC’s and 2 Macs, and we’ll be installing an 802.11g network infrastructure. If the experiment goes well we will extend it to the rest of the organization.
Obviously there are a few “why would you do that” questions. Generally it’s because as a mobile organization we are trying to get away from things which ties desks to certain spots. A large part of that is Cat5 cabling everywhere.
The cost is close to the same as it would be to upgrade from 10 to 100Mbps, and since most of our network is running at 10Mbps it should be quite the adventure.
I’ll keep you posted as our experiment matures, but I am excited about the possibilities.
