It seems that lately I’ve been fielding a number of questions relevant to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, and specifically its provision of protection from legal liability for service and content providers. For the benefit of our clients and subscribers, I am providing a link to the full text of the DMCA as provided by Copyright.gov.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act (full text pdf)
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If you’re a tech or sys admin, and you support Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 mailboxes on a regular basis, you are bound to run into the following message:
The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.
This often occurs when attaching a new Outlook client to an Exchange mailbox in the mail control panel interface. This error is so common that Microsoft wrote a handy Knowledge Base article to address the issue: (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927481).
However, the article doesn’t touch on what – in my experience – is the most common cause of this error message: improperly configured software firewalls.
Now if you have a smart enough firewall, it will prompt you to either allow or deny access between Microsoft Outlook and the remote server when Outlook attempts to contact the Exchange server for the first time. Many firewalls, including every version of Microsoft’s Windows firewall I’ve used, will not prompt you or provide any indication that the firewall is blocking the connection.
Of course this will only fix the problem if your DNS is configured correctly (which you can check with nslookup or by pinging the server), and you know that your Exchange server is functioning properly (which you can verify by using Outlook Web Access in your browser, or by testing the mailbox on another user’s workstation).
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If there’s one thing that can can kill a great idea before it even gets out of the gate, it’s the likelihood that you won’t remember it later.
I know it sounds stupid; I mean how could you possibly forget something so exciting and potentially revolutionary? I’ll tell you how. Because of everything else in the world that is seemingly there only to distract you and rob you of your productivity. Things like traffic and morning radio, and the fact that you didn’t bring along a pencil and notebook when you had that epiphany as you were jogging this morning.
No worries. I’ll bet your cell phone is nearby.
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Do you consider yourself a newbie to web business? If so, this issue is for you. I’ve put together a checklist containing the ten essentials of any online business.
I suggest you print this checklist and keep it at your desk. As you accomplish each item in the list, you’ll see your profits steadily increase. Before you know it you’ll be earning a full time income from the web!
On with the checklist. Remember, you do not have to do these all at once. Work your way through the list one step at a time. Once you have every item on this list, you should really be seeing some steadily growing profits…
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Article by Brad Fallon, CEO of SEO Research.
Five things many Search Engine Optimization firms won’t tell you — but that you need to know before you spend a dime.
So, you want your website to rank high on Google and other search engines. To do that, you’re planning on hiring a search engine optimization (SEO) firm. Good move — maybe.
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