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| Friday, August 12, 2005
The quietest week ever I think this might be among the slowest weeks I've ever had on this blog. I've been on vacation in the past and posted more than I have this week! There's actually been a very good reason for it. I'm having to re-think the entire purpose of this blog, and how many different things I want to continue being committed to online going forward. Things are changing, for the better without a doubt, but things are going to be quite a bit different. It's going to be difficult to write about small business tech when I don't work for a small business any more. It's going to be difficult to write about the life of a one-man IT department, when I'm working with a dozen other IT people. Yes, I'm changing jobs. Two weeks from now. (More details will be released as I come to grips with which parts I want to share, and which I don't.) Yes, there will still be a blog at this address, and it will still be a tech blog. Yes, there will still be a Child Abuse Survivor site, and there will still be plenty of pictures being posted in various places, because I love photography. Beyond that, I'm not entirely sure. I probably won't be until I am in the new job and settled in to a new routine. In the meantime, as I see interesting things in the tech world, or want to share interesting tidbits about leaving a small business IT job, I'll post them. Just know that this is a very exciting time for me, but also a bit stressful as I leave the familiarity and control of being the only IT guy, and enter a completely new world. Tags: NewJob Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 4:42 PM | 0 comments | 
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The arms race continues There are a number of arms races going on, hackers, spammers, etc. This one's about popups. Some folks figured out how to use Flash to get around Firefox's pop-up blocker, and thanks to a post on Steve Holden's blog, I see that someone had figured out a config change to combat that. Sheesh next thing you know people will be cracking Windows Genuine Advantage, and the figuring out a new hack when MS fixes that one. Like that'll ever happen..*L* Tags: Firefox PopupBlocker Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 8:13 PM | 0 comments |
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Monday, August 08, 2005
BartPE Today's column by Fred Langa is the second recent reference I've seen to BartPE: Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time! Sounds like an interesting tool to check out, or at least have handy for when you need to grab data off a drive that won't boot any longer. :) For the record, the first reference was from Kevin Devin. Tags: BartPE SystemRecovery Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 4:19 PM | 0 comments |
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