Archive for March, 2008

Why do Spammers Spam?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I have spent almost 10 years writing software to protect my clients from spam and viruses. I am continually asked why do spammers send out their filth. Is there a reason, or is it just spotty teenagers having a laugh? The first thing that people must understand is that there wouldn’t ...

Flexiscale from Xcalibre

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We were lucky enough to get a visit from Tony Lucas from Flexiscale at the last meeting of the AWS user group. Tony told us the story behind Flexiscale and how he decided back in 2004 that what the world really needed was a proper utility computing infrastructure, so he and ...