Recent Articles
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Display Technology Shoot-Out: Part I
This is the first in a four-part series by DisplayMate author Dr. Raymond Soneira, exploring the four primary display technologies. This first installment analyzes and compares black-level, color temperature, peak brightness, dynamic range, and display contrast for each technology. DisplayMate has worked closely with ExtremeTech, PC Magazine and many other Ziff-Davis publications for over ten…
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Setting up Intel’s Matrix RAID for the ICH6R
To RAID or Not to RAID? Personal RAID storage is a hot topic—even somewhat controversial. Theoretically RAID 0 offers better performance, but at the cost of increased risk: If one of the two drives fails, you lose your data. RAID 1 offers redundancy and protection, but you only get half the capacity of the two…
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Software Integrates Anti-Spam Chores
Pete Kretche, network systems administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, decided to fight spam with a software-only tool that integrates directly with his mail servers. The university is a Microsoft Corp. Exchange shop, and Kretche chose an anti-spam tool that works only with Exchange: iHateSpam, from Sunbelt Software Inc. Kretche oversees about 12,000 e-mail…
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Fighting Spam on Different Fronts
In September 2003, eWEEK teamed up with Internet service provider WiscNet and some of its customers for a comparative evaluation of anti-spam systems. In this special report, eWEEK Labs catches up with some of the participants to see what anti-spam system they decided to go with and why—and how their choices have held up over…
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School District Takes Hands-Off Approach to Fighting Spam
Robin Jarlsberg has sole responsibility for all the technology at the School District of Cambridge, in Cambridge, Wis., so she needed a set-it-and-forget-it anti-spam solution. The school district is a small K-12 institution about 20 miles east of Madison, with a user population of about 160 teachers, administrators and other staff members. The district does…
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Carroll College Relies on Appliance to Fight Spam
Carroll College, a private institution in Waukesha, Wis., services 7,000 e-mail accounts that receive approximately 1 million messages per month. The college’s commitment to freedom of expression and to privacy precludes the use of an outside anti-spam service to filter all this mail, as does the cost of such a service, which is why Carroll’s…
