Beta Testing

The good folks over at Secunia have a nice, free, web-based tool to scan your computer for certain common vulnerabilities. I’m surprised I didn’t pick up on this before, as I get the Secunia alert newsletter.:
Secunia Software Inspector6 December, 2006 - Secunia is proud to announce the availability of the Secunia Software Inspector. Detect and update [...]

Got it today. Unfortunately, I have a blown keyboard that is preventing my Dell and, I presume, the Zonbu unit from booting. (I SO wanted to play with this thing tonight!) Tomorrow, I’m going to give it a run for its money and if it’s everything I think it might be, I’m going viral with [...]

Well, it’s the first one of the New Year that I saw. A friend of mine sent an email early on New Year’s Day:
Help! After defragging and rebooting I got the error message: ’Application failed to initialize: 0×800106BA. A problem caused Windows Defender Service to stop. To start the service, restart your computer or search Help [...]

The Windows Vista beta program is finished and the product has been released to manufacturing, so you can’t go out and download it anymore (at least not from Microsoft). But you can still test drive Vista–as well as Microsoft’s other OS, Office and server products–at TechNet Virtual Labs.
From the site: “Quickly evaluate and test [...]