Ah, Leap Day!
Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
Happy Leap to you on that strangest of days that seems to appear just to mess up the only 4 week month we have. We talk of 4 weeks in a month all the time, yet only Feb has the real thing, ‘ceptin on the quadrennial when we tidy things up a bit, accounting […]
Read More..>>Sharepoint or Sites?
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under Google Apps | Leave a Comment
There’s a new kid in town and as usual, it’s no surprise that it comes from Google…and no surprise that it’s free.
It’s another example of doing something with what you buy rather than letting it waste away. Jotspot was an acquisition back in 2006 and from that comes a free online competitor to
Beat the Buzzer
Posted on February 27, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
Yahoo’s newest beta project is Buzz, a weak attempt to capitalize on the (now dated) 2.0 mania, which gives you an opportunity to vote on news items and lets the readers determine what is the most popular.
..a pretty uninteresting concept right now unless they find a way to do value added. This concept seems to […]
Seed Money
Posted on February 26, 2008 - Filed Under Science News | Leave a Comment
I guess that’s what you would call the financing for the new seed repository just completed by Norway and designed to hold 4.5 million seeds to protect the interests of agriculture in case we blow up most areas or contaminate things so badly we either destroy or sterilize all the seed crops.
This seed bank is […]
Big Bytes
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
Do you have your first terabyte drive yet? Maybe not individually, but a good many people have over a terabyte of storage when including external drives and maybe added internal ones. I know my box has a couple of 320GB Externals along with a 650GB on top of two internals that have been around for […]
Read More..>>Google Aids Hackers
Posted on February 24, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
Well, at least a new tool does. Something called Goolag Scan has been released which makes it easier to use Google when searching for website vulnerabilities.
The group
Data (Un)Secure
Posted on February 23, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
A new report out of Princeton shows that data encryption on a hard drive in most cases can be bypassed and the contents accessed.
As usual, we have been led to believe something is without fail when, in reality, most everything has an Achilles heel, and sometimes the whole body is vulnerable. Turns out that
Microsoft Open Source
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft | Leave a Comment
Well, they just pledged to share communication protocols with developers. Isn’t that great news for open source advocates?
Oh, sorry, here’s the fine print. In a nutshell,
Microsoft pulls Vista SP1 update
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft | Leave a Comment
Not SP1 itself, which has a mass-market date for mid-March, but is available now. What they pulled is a “prerequisite piece of software” they install prior to SP1 depending on which of the ‘31 flavors’ of Vista you ‘own’.
Some customers in ‘unique circumstances’ (undefined by MSFT), may have a problem (like corrupted installs).
We have a […]
Too little…too much?
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft | Leave a Comment
Do they give us too much or do we just use too little?
Primarily thinking here about MS Office and all of it’s incarnations over the years. Like the OS, it has grown so much with every new version that things get too bloated to actually use.
I used to think that