Looks like I’ll be doing some research on the latest batch of MS patches rolled out yesterday. Whee fun!
OK so it’s not the most exciting part of my job, by far, but I’d rather read the technical details of these to see where we might be vulnerable than deal with the mess after someone has used the exploit against us.
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Yes, this weekend our mail server blocked 542 copies of the NetSky virus in all it’s variations before they reached my end users. Apparently quite a few people out there in the world have been more than a little careless about opening attachments. So much for hoping that end users would learn not to do…
As you may remember, I’ve been pushing RSS as an answer to our communications people when it comes to dealing with spam filters. My thinking was, if we can get our members to move toward adopting newsfeeds as a way to get information from our website, we can avoid all of the problems we’ve been…
Playing catch up after being gone for the funeral. Hundreds of items in Bloglines to look at, dozens of emails to answer, a few work issues that need resolved immediately, probably a handful of podcasts to get caught up on, etc. I’m still glad I was able to go be with Angela and her family…
But all those folks who’ve been running to complain about Microsoft’s “new” policy regarding Windows Product Activation, please go read Ed Bott’s post about this and understand the news story might not have it exactly right, ok? Now, if you have personally tried to reinstall a valid OEM version of XP onto the exact machine…
So I went to see if I could start a download of Knoppix this morning and discovered that I was getting a whopping 1.9KB/second download speed on the CD image. Gee at that rate I’d be ready to burn the thing sometime next week! A quick switch of mirrors has me at a much better…
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