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Archive for June, 2006

Barracuda Networks outage?

13
Jun

We have a Barracuda Spam Firewall and we love it but something bad is apparently happening today. It appears that either there is an outage at Barracuda or they are getting DDOSed. All attempts to connect to their website are failing and when you call any of the phone numbers you get a couple of rings, then a fast busy signal. This doesn’t bode well.

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iSyncTunes — Windows script to keep iTunes up to date

09
Jun

I am begrudgingly making the move from Winamp to iTunes and it kinda makes me sad. Winamp is a great music player, but one thing it doesn’t do well is play iTunes-purchased music. There is a plugin that enables it to do this, but I have found it to be rather buggy. For example, sometimes when browsing the Internet while a song was playing, the music would start to stutter and sound choppy until I stopped and restarted playback. iTunes doesn’t have this problem.
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