Random cantankerous thoughts that I’ve thought this week: People who feel the need to remind you how open minded they are, aren’t. It’s probably time to bail when the association you work for decides that the very core of what it does, isn’t something they can sell to people and their own marketing people start…
Re: The IE patch. According to Brian’s comment , the IE patch for version 5.X doesn’t actually fix one of the vulnerabilities. As well, Chris mentions that the patch may break Pane views in Outlook 2000 & 2002. Which just goes to prove my theory that anything MS or any other company releases should be…
I don’t usually step up to defend Microsoft. I don’t usually bash Microsoft either. I try to basically stay out of those arguments. But when an article comes along trying to use the new licensing program as a way to bash Microsoft by not telling the truth, I have to say something. I have to…
So the government is pushing smart cards as a way to protect against terrorism, right? Well they should read this story, Smart-card security needs an upgrade. -seems those little wonders are easily hacked into. How nice would it be to have someone steal your smart card ID and have easy access to your identity? Microsoft…
Ok at least for today let’s hear it for Compaq getting that hard drive to me by 9:30 this morning and allowing me to get the machine re-imaged and updated and patched and ready to go by 2:00PM. That rocks. The only bad news was that the .pst file got corrupted in the move and…
Things had been running so smoothly around here lately that I was actually beginning to think that when I do decide it’s time to leave, (probably next year, I get fully vested in the pension at the end of this year) it probably won’t be too big a deal. Then yesterday afternoon happened, and I…