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2007 August 17

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IT Not Exactly The Same Globally

 
Information Technology has reached almost all places on Earth. It should essentially be the same everywhere, with so many companies being global concerns - right?
Not necessarily.
In a small flurry of jumping around in the ‘ether’ the last couple of days, I stumbled upon (but not through StumbleUpon) an online information technology magazine from Down […]

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Smoothwall Express 3.0 RC1 Released

For those wishing to offload chores of firewall and pest control to a machine that will do the job and not have local machines slowed with less than effective solutions, Smoothwall Express is just what is called for.
 
Changes are many, including support for some SATA solutions, a 64bit solutions (for those with lots of money, […]

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Big Brother IS Watching, and Editing Wikipedia, Too

File under: George Orwell tried to tell us.
Reported today, a researcher trying to find out who is doing the editing of Wikipedia answers wrote a program to trace where the changes were coming from. The program, called WikiScanner, was created by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute.
Griffith was interviewed August 16, and stated that […]

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Microsoft Forefront - Why?

This is one of those things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
 
After seeing the presentation that Microsoft puts forth, I suppose that if I fear my systems will be attacked by ninjas, I’ll know where to look for help.
Seriously, on one hand, I can easily poke fun at Microsoft by asking “If Vista and the […]

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Windows Home Server Available Soon

Windows releases have been slipping a lot recently. Vista was pushed back a couple of times, and in hindsight, should have been pushed back further.  The applications division is letting the Mac version of Office slip - so it seems to be lately in Redmond. I guess the company is too busy trying to push […]