Saturday, May 27, 2006

What's in store for WSUS 3.0?

According to PatchAholic...The WSUS Blog! : What can you expect in WSUS 3.0? there will be some long requested features in WSUS 3.0 and much more flexibility. Unfortunately the web interface will be replaced with an MMC UI in order to provide richer views. This seems to fly in the face of all the "Live" efforts Microsoft has brewing so let's hope it was a good decision.

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Friday, May 26, 2006

Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera

Compute sharp photographs focused at different depths.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

My first posting from Word 2007

Now, while I doubt I’ll use Word 2007 for all blog posts, it is nice to have as an option. Good work team. Oh, and I should say, the UI update for Word is AWESOME! I’d add more but I’m speechless writeless at the moment.

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Friday, May 19, 2006

BSS BBQ 5.0

It's time for BSS BBQ 5.0. Hamburgers, hotdogs, veggieburgers, chips (and more) start making their way to plates at 12:30pm. There will be awards, THE FLOPPIES, for categories such as "Most amazing hair", we'll have refreshments, and who knows what else.



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Thursday, May 18, 2006

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i will be Vista ready

McAfee is planning a Q306 release of VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i. Along with that release is planned support for Windows Vista. To read more about this see McAfee® - enterprise - McAfee® VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i Vista -Beta.

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Symantec Ghost: Local access vulnerabilities in Database

The local access vulnerabilities in Symantec Ghost 8.2 and earlier probably aren't too earth shaking since they require physical access to the host system.

However, the other enhancements to Symantec Ghost 8.3 (part of Ghost Solution Suite (GSS) 1.1 might be of interest:
  • Support for terabyte or bigger hard disks.
  • Fedora core cloning support.
  • No size limit for local ghost image file; now you can have a single large image file.
  • Ghost boot wizard upgrade to support ISO images and USB thumb drive.
  • Updated network drivers and use of UNDI dirver.
  • Secured ghost database management.


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Sunday, May 14, 2006

OT :: Parallel Earth

Narrator:
Scientists have long speculated that infinite parallel worlds exist on different planes than the world we know.
On these Earths history has taken different paths:
On one, dinosaurs and man co-exist.
On another the Russians were the first men to walk on the moon.
On another still, Clay Aiken defeated Ruben Studdard.
Now join us as we travel through the fabric of time and space to visit one of these mysteries -- one of these paralle Earths.

Announcer:

And now a message from the president of the United States:



Update: Looks like the video had to be removed from YouTube, so see CrooksandLiars instead.

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Friday, May 12, 2006

IEBlog : Upcoming HTTPS Improvements in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2

The IIS7 devs have posted on IEBlog about the upcoming HTTPS Improvements in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. It's nice to see improvements still coming from Microsoft.

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Monday, May 08, 2006

FeedBlitz - EMail Blog and RSS Subscription Services

Want to keep track of a low traffic RSS feed and do so by receiving email notifications? Then FeedBlitz - EMail Blog and RSS Subscription Services is what you're looking for.

Fedburner offers a similar service for publishers by allowing them to add a subscription form to their website, just like the one on this blog.

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I'm now a thawte Web of Trust notary!

Many thanks (in order of verification) to Gary Bartlett, John Tait, Dan Rosenthal, and Paul Franson for providing me with the points needed to become a notary for thawte's Web of Trust. I can now assert 10 points and hope to increase that so just email me.

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Friday, May 05, 2006

Using USB on a Core Duo machine with XPSP2?

Then you'll want the hotfix mentioned in Article ID 918005:
Battery power may drain more quickly than you expect on a Windows XP SP2-based portable computer

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Ex-chancellor returns to CSU and big benefits

SFGate.com reports Ex-chancellor returns to CSU and big benefits.

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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Linux gains enhanced WiFi stack

LinuxDevices.com reports that the day when WiFi cards "just work" under Linux may soon be here. This is good news as Windows and MacOS put Linux to shame in this critical area.

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