by wwarren | Apr 11, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, Open Source
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...
by wwarren | Apr 11, 2010 | Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows, 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...
by wwarren | Mar 8, 2010 | Hardware, Open Source
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.
by wwarren | Mar 8, 2010 | Open Source
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...
by wwarren | Mar 8, 2010 | Hardware, Open Source
– 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...
by wwarren | Mar 8, 2010 | Hardware, Open Source
Legal Action Threatened by Processor Distributor | Overclockers. It’s not D&H’s fault but their upstream.
by wwarren | Feb 24, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, Open Source, Security, Windows
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...
by wwarren | Feb 18, 2010 | Microsoft, Open Source
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.
by wwarren | Feb 10, 2010 | Hardware
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....
by wwarren | Jan 19, 2010 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
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. ...
