Power outage in Nelson

June 29th, 2011

Restoration of all services in our montreal location are proceeding. Most clients are now fully back online. However the city of Nelson,bc has just suffered an unplanned city wide power outage. Our phones and pagers are now disconnected and you will not be able to reach our office until power is restored. In the interm [...]

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RESTORED : Host4 in Montreal

June 29th, 2011

We are currently experiencing a server outage in our montreal data center. Affecting small segment of our user base. If you are unable to send email AND view  your website then you are likely part of the affected group. The issue has been present since 8pm PST and we are in the process of restoring [...]

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Moving Contacts from Cpanel SquirrelMail to RoundCube

October 14th, 2010

Migrating old users from an entrenched system like SquirrelMail to Roundcube can be a bit of a problem when it comes to the address book. These are the quick and dirty steps to move a users address book into RoundCube. Add the Address Import/Export plugin to Squirrel Mail Export the Contacts Convert to vCard Import [...]

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We interrupt this program for an important message about foot cream.

September 28th, 2010

[Retraction] A friend over at Shaw has pointed out that this message is shown to new customer upon new activations, or when a modem is swapped. We had our modem swapped almost exactly 12 hours before this happened  b/c of about 6 weeks of  random down times.  For whatever reason some glitch in Shaw’s system [...]

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Login, Get Report, Open in Safari, Print, Close

September 27th, 2010

Just a quick and dirty way to login to backend site using curl, grab a protected report file and save to disk, open with safari, print to a preferred printer and close the window. Perfect for printing out a daily report via a crontab on your mac. Dirty Code #!/bin/bash curl --cookie-jar /tmp/cjar --output /dev/null [...]

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C-32 making you a criminal

June 21st, 2010

Regarding Mr. Shellenberg’s letter in support of bill c-32. The C-32 bill before parliament this session is a reboot of the failed C-61 bill we saw die after Parliament’s dissolution in 2008. While the bill has come a small way to providing a fairer balance between industry and consumer interest there is a glaring flaw [...]

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There Be Robots

June 1st, 2010

Technology and Art mix more then we tend to realize. I couldn’t get enough of these great pieces by Ms. Shpeley at a recent art showing down the street. Who wouldn’t be tempted to replace that outdated photo of grandma on the wall with one of these little guys. It really surprises me when some [...]

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The walls going up

May 5th, 2010

We’ve tackled all the complicated stuff, the walls and mudding are about to begin. First coat of mud will be on tonight.

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Hardwood Working

April 27th, 2010

Another late night is done. It’s just into the early hours of the morning now, I’ve just come from framing the new office. We’ve got about another 5 -6 days of work ahead of us so it’s going to be jam packed fun.

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Open Letter to Canada Post about SPF

April 23rd, 2010

Does Canada Post know how to protect itself from domain spoofing? Recently I received a Delivery Notice in my email from deliver4@canadapost.ca, a few days passed and nothing was delivered as promised by the note. Attached to the notice was a PDF that consisted of only one page simply stating “this page is intentionally left [...]

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