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Topics from October, 2006
- Hell yeah, I remember (Desktop) Aurora - set your screensaver to be your desktop under Vista
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Most interesting feature not to make it into Vista: Mimesweeper
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Windows 2003 has processor power management disabled by default - a good read on how to fine tune and enable it
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Adobe Flash plug-in under Vista causing DEP exceptions or strange crashes? Grab the newer Adobe Flash Player 9 build.
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Windows Live Messenger 8.1 hits public beta
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- NOD32, my favorite antivirus program, reaches v2.7 with added Vista 32/64-bit support
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- KB 920342 - PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol) v2 from Vista backported to Windows XP as an update
Posted by on Friday, October 27. 2006
- New HELO/EHLO pipe hacks attempting to phone home to a spam beacon of some type
Posted by on Friday, October 27. 2006
- Just in time for Oct 31st - Free scary books in PDF form from Google
Posted by on Thursday, October 26. 2006
- A twisted version of fun - publishing applications from a Longhorn virtual machine on my laptop and running those apps on my host Windows XP
Posted by on Thursday, October 26. 2006
- A good day for software releases - Fedora Core 6 is out today too!
Posted by on Tuesday, October 24. 2006
- Firefox 2.0 is released today - for real this time
Posted by on Tuesday, October 24. 2006
- Non-beta release of Windows Defender hits the web - Build 1592 - replaces Beta 2
Posted by on Tuesday, October 24. 2006
- Verizon - redefining 'unlimited' to mean "5GB per month" on 'unlimited' data plans
Posted by on Tuesday, October 24. 2006
- Brilliant PR and marketing move by Meijer - Free anti-biotics - One of the few times capitalism in the US healthcare field benefits the consumer
Posted by on Monday, October 23. 2006
- BF 2142 ads successfully hacked - add your own and/or block the official game ads.
Posted by on Monday, October 23. 2006
- Earthlink DNS servers are pulling a Verisign - instead of returning NXDOMAIN, they return a website full of ads - avoid at all costs
Posted by on Monday, October 23. 2006
- My favorite Firefox 2.0 add-ons
Posted by on Monday, October 23. 2006
- Firefox 2.0 is out - a day early
Posted by on Monday, October 23. 2006
- Firefox 2.0 supposed to come out this Tuesday (October 24th)
Posted by on Monday, October 23. 2006
- AutoIT = More powerful than VBScript, less complex than PowerShell, plus it is free!
Posted by on Sunday, October 22. 2006
- KB 924334 - First fallout from IE 7 going RTM - Exchange 2003 OWA S/MIME locks up
Posted by on Sunday, October 22. 2006
- WIDCOMM/Broadcom Bluetooth stack works under Windows Vista if you brute force install it
Posted by on Saturday, October 21. 2006
- Recommended hotfixes for Windows 2003 SP1 clusters (not RTM)
Posted by on Thursday, October 19. 2006
- Verizon Merits program - the practically unknown service that turns New Every Two into New Every One
Posted by on Thursday, October 19. 2006
- Fixing 'broken' CD-rom/DVD-rom access - drive functions in BIOS but not under Windows - sometimes related to GearAspiWDM
Posted by on Wednesday, October 18. 2006
- Verizon EVDO *REV A* launches in Grand Rapids in November
Posted by on Tuesday, October 17. 2006
- Battlefield 2142 comes bundled with spyware
Posted by on Tuesday, October 17. 2006
- KB 922617 - Outlook crashes after moving mailboxes from one Exchange 2000/2003 server to an Exchange 2003 SP2 server? Guid-replid caching might be the cause.
Posted by on Tuesday, October 17. 2006
- Nothing cuter than a 2 year old pointing and yelling at the TV, "No deal!"
Posted by on Monday, October 16. 2006
- Norton Antivirus 2006 and Norton Internet Security 2006 subscribers get NAV 2007 and NIS 2007 for free
Posted by on Monday, October 16. 2006
- Apparently talking about XML RPC brings out the exploit zombie bots
Posted by on Sunday, October 15. 2006
- Gallery 1.6 Alpha released
Posted by on Friday, October 13. 2006
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Visual Studio 2005 SP1
Posted by on Friday, October 13. 2006
- Windows Live Mail Desktop Build 1083 available for download
Posted by on Friday, October 13. 2006
- Fun with Google 'Code' and magic hex numbers
Posted by on Thursday, October 12. 2006
- Windows XP Product Key Update program from Microsoft to update non-legit XP copies to legit
Posted by on Thursday, October 12. 2006
- Give Office 2000 and 2003 ability to handle Office 2007 documents
Posted by on Thursday, October 12. 2006
- S9Y: Google's XML-RPC ping added to Serendipity Trunk (essentially version 1.1-in-progress)
Posted by on Wednesday, October 11. 2006
- Windows Live OneCare version 1.5 adds Vista support
Posted by on Wednesday, October 11. 2006
- You can now announce your blog postings to Google by XML-RPC ping
Posted by on Wednesday, October 11. 2006
- S9Y: More XML-RPC fixes/modifications committed to SVN trunk
Posted by on Wednesday, October 11. 2006
- Add (back) native support for PDF files in Office 2007
Posted by on Monday, October 9. 2006
- If you absolutely, positively, need to block the installation of Internet Explorer 7.0 from Automatic Updates, here is your answer.
Posted by on Monday, October 9. 2006
- Sun Java JRE 5.0 seems to have the logic reversed when interpreting elevated Windows Installer rights
Posted by on Monday, October 9. 2006
- Getting Seredipity to work with Windows Live Writer
Posted by on Monday, October 9. 2006
- Windows Live Writer now works with Serendipity!
Posted by on Saturday, October 7. 2006
- Firefox Trunk gets support for the new Vista file and protocol registration APIs
Posted by on Friday, October 6. 2006
- Fool websites into thinking you are running IE 6.0 when you are actually running IE 7.0
Posted by on Friday, October 6. 2006
- Favorite new feature of Outlook 2007 so far - multiple categories can be assigned per entry and customized!
Posted by on Friday, October 6. 2006
- Having shared fax problems or TAPI applications that are hanging, like there is a deadlock condition, in Windows 2003? I know I have seen it - get KB 924050 and KB 919009
Posted by on Friday, October 6. 2006
- Initiating Remote Assistance without an initial request - undocumented or under-reported?
Posted by on Wednesday, October 4. 2006
- The best feature of Web 2.0 (rolleyes) - with userstyles.org, if you don't like the way a site looks, change it!
Posted by on Tuesday, October 3. 2006
- Compaq and HP laptop ACPI support for Notebook Hardware Control
Posted by on Tuesday, October 3. 2006
- VM-Ware ESX 3.0.1 available for download
Posted by on Tuesday, October 3. 2006
- WSUS 3.0 - dynamic update view based on ruleset
Posted by on Tuesday, October 3. 2006
- VM-Ware ESX 3.0.1 is at the RC stage - RTM in October
Posted by on Monday, October 2. 2006
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