by wwarren | Dec 1, 2009 | Microsoft, Storage, Windows
Channelweb Connect: SMB Channel Voice: SMB Storage Challenges – Two Nice MS Utilities. The Search Server Express is one thing i like. It allows you to have your server index by content everything on your server including PDF’s. This is one i am going to look...
by wwarren | Dec 1, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
Uncommon Sense Security: CERT spreads marketing BS and misinformation. I did this one quickly without fully vetting the article because i was in a hurry…bad move. Securosis and CERT misidentify several things as clientless when they aren’t like OpenVpn. ...
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#261869. Via Securosis Web based VPN has always been a bad idea. This is also known as “clientless” vpn meaning you don’t have to fire up a separate application for a vpn. Like anything in the “cloud” this...
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft looking into Windows ‘black screen of death’ problem. I have not run into this with any of my clients. Will keep a lookout though and will update this if things change. *UPDATE* The black screens are caused by the machines already being...
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2009 | Hardware
SemiAccurate :: Nvidia G310 spotted, just a renamed G210.
by wwarren | Nov 29, 2009 | Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 7 – Performance Improvements. Wayne gets overenthusiastic though saying it’s faster than XP. There’s no way that’s true as i have run both on my notebook and my quad core desktop. XP is still quicker than 7 but ANYTHING is faster than...
by wwarren | Nov 24, 2009 | Microsoft, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 8 by 2012 as Shown on Microsoft Slide – Tom’s Hardware. Otherwise there would be no need for another “major release” in 2012. Which means now I am going to be holding off on buying new operating systems until that if my clients...
by wwarren | Nov 22, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
New Zero-Day Flaw Discovered in IE7 | threatpost.
by wwarren | Nov 20, 2009 | Apple, Microsoft, Windows
This is a spoof of the Vista Choices ad in the long running mac vs poc series of ads from Apple. I ran across this one as a link. YouTube – UNRELEASED Mac vs. PC AD for iPhone and iPod Touch SPOOF.
by wwarren | Nov 12, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Windows, Windows 7
Laurent Gaffié blog: Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 Remote Kernel Crash. notice this is only in the two major operating systems that use the new smb protocol by Microsoft? Vista isn’t mentioned but i bet this will kill Vista as well.
