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MS SBS is rapidly loosing its luster.
The times really are getting smaller and smaller. You really need to have 5 or more machines active. Running e-mail out of house can be done but it's not easy as exchange really wants to be the mail hub(which makes since as it IS a full featured mail server). The...
The $840 scam from Sprint
I had a horrid experience with Sprint lately. My current phone, a LG Rumor, has the tendency to power off instantly when it goes into standby. It's random in occurrence. I finally called up Sprint again and asked what's going on with the phone. Instead of the...
Social Media = Bad Corporate Security
Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers. Especially with Mark Zukerberg(CEO of Facebook) calling his users obscene names and now being accused of securities fraud, this revelation isn't surprising. Right after the first series of Zuckerberg rants...
Terremark vCloud Express: First month « TechOpsGuys.com
Terremark vCloud Express: First month « TechOpsGuys.com. Oucies. That's horrendously expensive. I'm assuming he's getting great service..:) There are less expensive options out there...like mine..:)
DailyTech – Report: Facebook CEO Doesn’t Care About Privacy
From a corporate standpoint and security standpoint this should be the end of FB use. Wired reports that new information has surfaced that claims Zuckerberg just doesn't care about the privacy of Facebook users. The revelation came in the form of a Tweet...
It Turns out the “new” features of facebook are even worse than noted before
Your Mom’s Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block Them. It goes further than i noted in my previous post. Log into FB then you have a uber-tracking/login cookie following you around. Also other applications by friends can still leak your information even...
More Railing aginst a non-existent monopoly
He said that with 70 per cent of the US market for Internet search, Google is the gateway to the Internet. How it tweaks its proprietary search algorithms can ensure a business's success or doom it to failure. via Consumer group calls for google breakup - The...
Facebook Is Becoming More of a Security Issue
Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Facebook is slowly making everything you do there public. Here's another step towards Facebook no longer giving you control over anything.
Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 go RTM..time for all your off 2003 and under users to move.
Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 go RTM.
More Facebook Hoaxes…This Time Farmville
Please folks. Please don't post these hoaxes. there is no virus for farmville. IF you get a popup that you don't normally see check YOUR system..it's not farmville. Call a professional to scan your system please.
Why does Google Chrome nail my cpu’s?
This is by design. Chrome is multi-threaded and will distribute all aspects of the site(especially audio and video) across of all of your cores it can. This leads to high intensity sites NOT getting slow or having issues provided your bandwidth holds up. I have...
Get Ready for Office 2010
Office 2010 is the typical Microsoft release. If you already have the previous edition of their office suite, upgrading is purely a choice of preference. If you are running older generations of Office it's really a good idea. If you are looking to purchase Office...
It’s time to move to Windows 7
Microsoft has put out a winner this time. I have been running Windows 7 since the first beta. It runs perfectly on my old 1.6 ghz celeron notebook with 2 gigs of ram. Vista on the same machine was a horrid experience(yes Vista is that bad). The conventional wisdom...
The new way to virtualize
Xsigo Virtual I/O Blog. One thing that holds virtualization back has been for each vm you needed a network cable. Xsigo makes it two per server..period. Nice.
MIcrosoft Exchange and Outlook may have met their match
bfish.xaedalus.net » Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.. I have converted two of my domains to gmail via Google apps. I am now using Thunderbird via Secured IMAP to check my e-mail for those accounts. I also now have access to my business e-mail from my phone...
Newegg says fake processors are demos…..wrong.
- Newegg Sticks with "demo boxes" - Intel Counters | [H]ard|OCP. Continuing on the earlier story which has really exploded Intel has come out and said these are total fakes. Demos are units Intel sends to partners and vendors to try out and design things for. These...
Legal Action Threatened by Processor Distributor Over Obvious Fake Intel CPU’s
Legal Action Threatened by Processor Distributor | Overclockers. It's not D&H's fault but their upstream.
N.Y. Firm Faces Bankruptcy from $164,000 E-Banking Loss — Krebs on Security
The blame here is not online banking but the operating system(Windows) faulty design and the users lack of proper security education. ANY business no matter how small needs to have a security audit done: 1. To make sure your machines aren't infected 2. To get...
Yahoo’s Search to Become More Useless
It's very simple. Yahoo is abandoning their search. All of their search results are going to come from Bing. How bad is Bing? I can search Microsoft's site with Google faster, with more accuracy, and more relevance than Bing can hope for.
Time to Re-evalute My Recommendations
Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers. Dell in their newest RAID cards are actively blocking "non-Dell Certified" hard disks. This means if you don't use a "Dell Drive" the controller won't allow it to operate. Considering the markup on "Dell" drives...
As if the IE vulnerability wasn’t enough
Full Disclosure: Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack. If you honestly believed Vista or 7 was a total rewrite because Microsoft said so this issue blows that straight out of the water. This is code from back in the nt.x days. ...
Time to Block DLL’s at the firewall.
Computer Security Research - McAfee Labs Blog. This is an expansion of the most recent IE exploit. Now comes the analysis. Allowing a system level file for windows(in this case a dll) be executable without any kind of security context is a really bad idea. That's...
Praetorian Prefect | Using Group Policy to Disable JavaScript in Adobe PDF Files
Praetorian Prefect | Using Group Policy to Disable JavaScript in Adobe PDF Files. This is also a good idea. Adobe right now is having all kinds of JavaScript issues. Killing JavaScript across the entire network is a good idea.
IE Opens Your System to Baddies again. Video of Exploit online. Breathe deeply and say: Firefox, Chrome
This was an exploit form back in ie6. It is present in all version up to 8. mshtml.dll once again has a major issue that allows remote sites to take over your machine. If you are running ie6, ie7, or ie8 you are vulnerable. HOWEVER if you have DEP turned on for ie...
Puyocon – A ball-shaped controller you can squeeze, throw, and roll : DigInfo
If this thing ever makes it to market I can see a HUUUUUUGE market for it. YouTube - Puyocon - A ball-shaped controller you can squeeze, throw, and roll : DigInfo.