2008 January

Leave it to Matt W. to have already touched on this once already. As he points out back in 2006, it seems that RIM, mobile carriers and resellers really need to get their information straight. And as luck would have it. I myself, had a taste of this type of things with DSLExtreme’s Exchange hosting […]

Based on what I have been seeing, I think Vista is never going to be as “popular” from the user perspective as XP was. And understand I am not talking about sales numbers. A healthy dose of Vista upgrade coupons and being pre-installed takes care of this. No, I think how people actually feel about […]

When securing our computers, we focus a lot of our attention on configuring a firewall and setting permissions. However, many people overlook the possibility of computer theft and forget to take precautions against this type of attack. Yet, once a malicious user steals your computer, they can move the hard drive into another computer and […]

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At one time, I swore by RoboForm as I felt it was the best way to handle password management on Windows. Unfortunately, the company that creates this otherwise great software has decided not to join the ranks of other companies that understand that we are becoming a cross platform society. Hence, I can no longer […]

Assuming that you completed the steps described in the previous installment of this article, you are now ready to begin the installation of SQL Server 2000. The following list outlines the basic steps involved in creating a failover cluster. Unlike the clustering of Exchange Server, where the virtual server is created after the installation of […]

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Everyday, I hear plenty of arguments against keeping a PC on all day unless it is in immediate use. This power saving mindset has become so common in fact, that entire businesses have been built up around it. Zonbu, comes to mind, among others.
But this argument of using spare PC cycles to work with some […]

As far as I can tell, this Nokia-Trolltech deal could end up being counter-productive for Google’s Android, at the same time, they may not mind in the long run.
Despite concerns about further fragmenting the mobile Linux world, I think that seeing mobile Linux taking a center stage with Nokia is going to be better overall […]

A SQL virtual server is the equivalent of a cluster resource group. If a resource within a virtual server fails, the entire group and all of its resources failover to the second cluster node. Each SQL virtual server must contain the following:

A Disk resource (each virtual server requires its own disk volume)
A Network Name resource
An […]

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This is an area that I am faced with as a consultant, writer and even as a user. Trying to clearly define the semantic web is about as simple as herding cats in my honest opinion. Sure, you can toss out a definition, but will it mean anything to the people you are explaining it […]

To increase its availability, SQL 2000 supports failover clustering, which means that processing can automatically switch between cluster nodes if one fails. For a corporation, this means that in the event of failure, database services can quickly be restored. As with Exchange, certain components of SQL Server are supported in failover clustering. The supported components […]

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As many of you know, I have been “wooling around” which phone I would be upgrading to with AT&T. After much research, asking about it here over and over, now that the magic upgrade month has arrive for upgrade eligibility - I have selected the BlackBerry 8820. Let me explain why.

With my available upgrade credit, […]

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Keeping in mind that the issue described here, would not affect me as do not use Windows as my primary OS. The following article did make me wonder who is asleep at the wheel over at Skype these days.
“The problem lies in the fact that Skype uses a Windows Internet Explorer component with inappropriate security […]