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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Jeff makes an interesting point regarding writing a weblog anonymously or not. It’s something I’ve been struggling with as the new year approaches and I look at the prospect of a job search. Is the fact that you can easily find my weblog by searching by my name a good thing or not a good…
Well talk about an Easter surprise, I logged in this morning to find an email from Andrew, one of the developers for Newzcrawler. Seems he read my little write up and wanted me to send him some examples of the problem I am having with permalinks so that he could look into providing a fix….
Yesterday, late in the day, I got some email from a mailing list I had joined a couple of years ago and that I had pretty much given up for dead, since it’s been a few months since I heard anything from it. The list is a listserv discussion list run by a statewide organization…
I downloaded the new beta for what they are now calling Windows Defender the other night. (Formally known as Microsoft Anti-Spyware) It’s definitely a clean interface, and it seems to run a bit quicker. A “quick-scan” of my laptop system only took 3 minutes. That seems faster than I remember most products quick scans taking….
I knew someday that having the one person who works at the company that donates their internet connection to us and understood how it was setup, leave was going to cause problems. Turns out the reason we couldn’t connect to the email server is that they changed the internal IP address of the mail server…