The CCIM Institute is become just a little more virtual. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve started replacing aging, single-use servers. Rather than buy another small box for each purpose, we’ve purchased a couple of fast, powerful Dell boxes, installed VMWare, and turned each into a host for several virtual servers.
Currently, we’ve put [...]
It’s been a fun weekend.
I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop to Windows Vista and my Dell home desktop to Fedora 8. Both upgrades were actually clean installs. Surprisingly (to me, at least), both went smoothly.
The key to the Vaio upgrade was reading the documentation Sony provided. They strongly recommend the “install as a [...]
The Technology Evangelist asks “Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange?“.
He makes a good case that the newly announced IMAP support is about the 10th shoe to drop on Google’s steady march on Microsoft Office and, now, Exchange.
CCIM.NET users: Instructions are at http://www.ccim.net/outlook-imap.pdf
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Walt Mossberg writes in the WSJ:
[...] I’m talking about two main problems. One is the plethora of teaser software and advertisements for products that must be cleared and uninstalled to make way for your own stuff. The second is the confusing welter of security programs you have to master and update, even on a virgin [...]
And we’re back to XP. This morning was the last straw. Command line FTP was broken. I could open an ftp site, but typing “ls” caused it to think the remote host had disconnected. I disabled the Windows firewall, but that didn’t help. As usual, There were others on the ‘net [...]
As mentioned earlier, I upgraded XP to Vista. As I was cleaning up, I noticed that Windows Defender was on the list of installed programs. Reading that Defender is part of Vista, I uninstalled it. Now Vista has its shorts all in a bunch because it’s downloading updates for Defender but it’s not there. [...]
I upgraded my office desktop to Vista Business yesterday.
So far, I’ve found that the following programs had to be removed as they’re incompatible with Vista:
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10
Norton Ghost 9.0
Zone Alarm Pro
HP PSC printer utilities
Scansoft PDF Create Pro
The Aero interface is pretty, but I quickly turned off the slide out, fade in, fade [...]
In this post, the Internet Storm Center reports on a possible attack vector for Vista systems on which the speech system has been activated. Microsoft says “Yeah, but it’s not dangerous.”
Didn’t Captain Kirk fool a computer with this trick?
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I found this from John Dvorak coffee-spitting funny:
It looks like the best Microsoft can do is provide us with an incredibly bland facade that seems more like something coming from General Electric during the announcement of a new afterburner technology for a jet engine. As an example of how peculiar this all is, can you [...]
CNET News is reporting that Brian Valentine has left Micrsosoft.
Brian Valentine, a 19-year Microsoft veteran and one of the key executives behind Windows Vista, has left the company.
Way back when, when beta tests were fairly exclusive affairs (hosted in private CompuServe forums), I was part of the Windows for Workgroups beta test. WFWG was [...]
