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Steve's Blog: Another win
http://blog.nexusuk.org/2015/04/another-win.html
Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Wednesday, 29 April 2015. As I've mentioned before, spam email has become a serious problem for people - the vast majority of email traffic is spam, and unlike some of the other forms of direct marketing, the costs for the sender are minimal and are outweighed by the costs to the recipients who are having to deal with the junk emails. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I run Opendium Limited. View my complete profile.
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Steve's Blog: October 2014
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Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Monday, 13 October 2014. Small suppliers picking up the tab for support. I've been having some thoughts about how the support load is distributed between large suppliers such as Microsoft, Apple and Google vs. smaller suppliers such as ourselves. So much like Apple, Microsoft seem disinterested in actually looking at bug reports. Limited experience of dealing with Google is much the same - they are just too big to be interested in re...
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Steve's Blog: Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015
http://blog.nexusuk.org/2015/08/counter-terrorism-and-security-act-2015.html
Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. Firstly, lets get a disclaimer out of the way: I am not a lawyer, none of this constitutes legal advice, etc. I am also of the opinion that the threat of terrorism is minuscule and that if all the effort the government puts into anti-terrorism were instead put into road safety or health care, a lot more lives would be saved, but anyway. Our Web Filter is a fully customisabl...
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Steve's Blog: February 2014
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Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Saturday, 22 February 2014. Its been a busy couple of weeks! Mel and I were married on Saturday February 1st at the King Arthur Hotel. In Reynoldston. Everything seemed to go off without a hitch and we thoroughly enjoyed the day. Big thinks to all of our friends who could make it, and pretty much everyone seemed to be up and dancing at the twmpath in the evening! Meals of the day they provided, but we got about four of them in all! We fi...
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Steve's Blog: Using an attack on freedom to attack freedom
http://blog.nexusuk.org/2015/01/using-attack-on-freedom-to-attack.html
Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Tuesday, 13 January 2015. Using an attack on freedom to attack freedom. Following the violent attack against the staff at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, we've now got David Cameron calling for more powers to snoop on people. Here's a transcript of his speech:. Up until now, governments have said no, we must not. I want to analyse what he's getting at, so I'll take the above transcript a bit at a time:. Up until now, governments have...
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Steve's Blog: BT's odd procedures
http://blog.nexusuk.org/2015/02/bts-odd-procedures.html
Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Thursday, 12 February 2015. BT do seem to have a lot of completely bonkers ordering procedures. Apparently I was wrong - BT say we can't change the order without delaying the whole installation. They advise that we should wait until the circuits are installed and then order the IP address changes and they will be done em on the same day /em . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I run Opendium Limited. View my complete profile.
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Steve's Blog: September 2014
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Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Friday, 26 September 2014. Many people don't realise, but sending unsolicited email is unlawful here in the UK. There are several ways companies go about doing bulk email marketing:. Collect the recipient's details via an existing business transaction, giving them the opportunity to opt-out of marketing emails at the same time. Buying/acquiring a mailing list from someone else. This is an unsolicited communication by means of electronic ...
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Steve's Blog: January 2015
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Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Monday, 19 January 2015. I get a lot. You can't send marketing mail to someone you've never done business with unless they have explicitly told you. That they consent. Consenting to a third party doesn't count (e.g. the "do you consent for our partners to send you marketing emails" tick boxes aren't allowed). As of the start of the year, I have started sending preaction notices to legitimate British companies who's spam ends up in my inb...
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Steve's Blog: March 2014
http://blog.nexusuk.org/2014_03_01_archive.html
Everything here is my opinion and not a statement from my employer. Wednesday, 26 March 2014. Most of the customers who have us do websites and web applications for them get us to host it all for them. Although we have to maintain the servers, this is usually a bit less faffy and more reliable than dealing with a third party. However, sometimes customers already have hosting, and want to carry on using this, which is fine too. Is this really the expected behaviour of a reputable hosting company? I've bee...
