Find out how Microsoft did a large scale rollout of Windows Vista. This webcast takes place on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 @ 9:30 AM Pacific Time - registration is here.
Tags: windows vista, enterprise
OK, techs: how often would you have loved to be able to access a NTFS drive from a DOS boot floppy? It happens to me two to four times a year. Unfortunately, the only program that was capable of that before a short time ago was NTFSDOS Pro from Systernals. It came […]
How many of you forget to log out of a web page after leaving it? If you’re logged in to something, ALWAYS log out - don’t just close the window or tab. Not logging out could leave you vulnerable to identity theft. And webmasters: PLEASE make sure there is a logout […]
Andy Cheng has seen it all. The scientist from Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab has worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission to Saturn, the NEAR mission to asteroid 433 Eros and many others during his decades-long career. Alien vistas are old hat to him.
But even he was amazed when he laid […]
RTO Software has created a free tool for you network admins to scan for applications that may not have been updated to work with the recent changes in Daylight Saving Time (DST). For more information, go here.
UPDATE:
Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center
Webcasts for daylight saving time changes in 2007
Some countries (most notably, the U.S., Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Israel, Egypt, and Sri Lanka) have adopted different Daylight Saving Time rules or different time zones this year. If you use Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista, you can get the patch either through Automatic Updates or Windows Update, but what if you […]
Gordon Dick of Edinburgh, Scotland sued spammer Transcom Internet Services Ltd. in small claims court and won a judgment of 750 pounds (euro1,100, US$1,445) in damages and 619 pounds (euro906, US$1,190) in court costs. ”Some people just delete and ignore it,” Dick told The Associated Press. ”But if someone was throwing stones through your […]
Hank Cranmore runs MOBITECH4U.com, a computer consulting business in Jacksonville, Florida. In a recent post to a tech support mailing list I’m on, he was musing about the possibility of Session 2 and newer users possibly being vulnerable to viruses or spyware.
First, some background. Every user in Windows who logs on […]
There’s a new button on the Google Maps page titled Traffic. When you click on it, coloured lines are displayed on the arterial streets on the map to indicate traffic speed. From the help file:
What do the colors represent on the traffic data?
If available in your area, real-time traffic conditions will be displayed […]
This is part two of Mark Russinovich’s three part series on the Windows Vista kernel. This month’s article focuses on memory management, startup and shutdown, and power management.
Last month, in the first installment of this three-part series, I looked at Windows Vista kernel enhancements in the areas of processes and I/O.
This time I’ll cover […]
This EIA 1956 chart will help you test the resolution of digital cameras. You will need a vector art program such as CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator to use it and a free membership to download it.
Anyone who’s eaten sushi knows what wasabi is - and you either love it or hate it (I love sushi and hate wasabi). Sunita Williams, an astronaut on the ISS, took some in her personal food pack. She was trying to make a pretend sushi meal when the wasabi tube exploded, sending wasabi […]
Do you support a computer user - even in an informal way (e.g. your Dad or Mom)? This article explains some of the ways our superior knowledge and skills may hamper your understanding of what a user means when they ask what seems to you to be a stupid question. Remember, there are […]
Researchers at Indiana’s University of Notre Dame, have discovered a way to increase the efficiency of nanoparticle based solar cells using carbon nanotubes and some commonly available chemicals. “This is very important work,” says Gerald Meyer, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. “Using carbon nanotubes as a conduit for electrons from titanium oxide […]
Unlike the earlier Virtual Server, Windows Virtual PC 2007 will not run on Windows 2000. (Sniff - an OS with almost all of the advantages of XP, none of the drawbacks, and ran well on boxes half as fast and with half as much RAM - I’ll miss you Windows 2000…)
As with the previous […]
