Netflix was mentioned elsewhere, but I'm surprised it isn't more prominent in the comments. I don't watch anything from either a DVD or Blu-Ray player. I either DL from iTunes, or watch on Netflix, Hulu, or some other dedicated iPad app. The only thing I use my Blu-Ray / DVD-RW for is to rip disks to my NAS drive.
I don't think it's entirely intentional, but it is a real phenom.
Same answer as others, but we had this same issue with a private instance of Exchange server. We were constantly being blocked when sending email to recipients in SBC and Comcast, even others occasionally, but those were the worst.
For a while we ran a second virtual email server as an 'edge' server for both incoming and outgoing email on RackSpace. This changed the IP to one of RackSpace's and solved the blocked email problems. It also worked great as a front line against spam. All of the load of spam filtering hit the virtual server, and spared the server in the office.
In the end though, we gave up. We now use hosted RackSpace Exchange. This has proven to be much cheaper overall, and without all the other small email system headaches.
Wow, really, you're going to lump Asimov & Jules Verne in with the writers of Fringe?
There's a huge difference between speculative science fiction, and fantasy fiction with a sciency veneer. Jules Verne may have been wrong about the mechanics, but he was exactly right that man would eventually walk on the moon, a notion that at the time would have appeared to most people to be pure fantasy. Sure we may not have sentient robots now, but if you don't believe that there will be sentient robots eventually, maybe not in my lifetime, maybe not my daughters, but eventually, then your an idiot and deserve to watch the meaningless crap that passes for "SciFi" on network television these days.
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Netflix was mentioned elsewhere, but I'm surprised it isn't more prominent in the comments. I don't watch anything from either a DVD or Blu-Ray player. I either DL from iTunes, or watch on Netflix, Hulu, or some other dedicated iPad app. The only thing I use my Blu-Ray / DVD-RW for is to rip disks to my NAS drive.
I don't think it's entirely intentional, but it is a real phenom.
Same answer as others, but we had this same issue with a private instance of Exchange server. We were constantly being blocked when sending email to recipients in SBC and Comcast, even others occasionally, but those were the worst.
For a while we ran a second virtual email server as an 'edge' server for both incoming and outgoing email on RackSpace. This changed the IP to one of RackSpace's and solved the blocked email problems. It also worked great as a front line against spam. All of the load of spam filtering hit the virtual server, and spared the server in the office.
In the end though, we gave up. We now use hosted RackSpace Exchange. This has proven to be much cheaper overall, and without all the other small email system headaches.
Wow, really, you're going to lump Asimov & Jules Verne in with the writers of Fringe? There's a huge difference between speculative science fiction, and fantasy fiction with a sciency veneer. Jules Verne may have been wrong about the mechanics, but he was exactly right that man would eventually walk on the moon, a notion that at the time would have appeared to most people to be pure fantasy. Sure we may not have sentient robots now, but if you don't believe that there will be sentient robots eventually, maybe not in my lifetime, maybe not my daughters, but eventually, then your an idiot and deserve to watch the meaningless crap that passes for "SciFi" on network television these days.
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