SBC Admits it.
I’m impressed. The SBC DSL person I talked to actually admited to blocking port 25. As of March 1st — They are blocking SMTP unless you: A- Put in a special request or B- Have a static IP. The “help” article is here.
Author: Jon
Damn You Gmail!
Ok, so I love Gmail who other than Google could manage to provide 1gig of space for your email and a sweet interface, for free. Regardless of all this, I actually use their service for POP/SMTP access from Thunderbird (PS. Great email client). Recently, while I’ve been getting my email via POP just fine, the…
SBC IS FILTERING PORT 25 !
Little bastereds. Set up thunderbird to use SSL over SMTP (port 465), which luckly Gmail supports. Email goes out just fine now. Also in the mean time I port scanned my local DSL gateway (64.170.193.254 if you want to scan them too) and it came back with a snark load of ports that are filtered…
Sigh and DoubleSigh
Surfing the RSS feeds this morning and I found two new intresting topics to bitch about in the wide wonderful world (WWW) of technology. First off is a moving article from ars technica, about the new Google mobile search. Ars’ first and foremost has a problem picking a side, their poking at it claiming that…
AIM gone the way of the phone
And by that I don’t mean it does VoIP — I mean that its now recorded. The original entry from Thrashing Through Cyberspace blog. To make a long story short, AIM now reserves the right to do what ever the hell they want with what you say on AIM. There are a few business’s that…
SATA is good
Well for as long as I’ve used SATA I have enjoyed it. I have yet to have a problem with it, its fast, and the cables are small. SATA 1.0 is spec’d out at 150MB/s (Yes, One hundred fifty megabytes per second — Faster than your average LAN by about 10 times), SATA 2.0 is…