Saw this article over on News.com about how the next Service Pack ofWindows XP is going to include a pop-up blocker ability built-in to Internet Explorer. Interesting for two reasons. One, it’s about time! Two, if even IE comes with a pop-up blocker by default, that form of web advertising is dead, offically, although since…
The Association of internet Professionals closed up shop on Oct. 3. Funny thing is, I saw the local chapter booth at ITEC on the 15th! Wouldn’t you think an association of internet folks would have gotten the news quicker than that? I’m just saying is all. (link via Backup Brain) Lockergnome relaunched yesterday, with a…
The last post was about some people, this one is about some days. Some days nothing works. Some days the internal Microsoft Mail Postoffice has random and sporadic problems. Some people can send messages fine, some people’s messages don’t get delivered until the user initiates a Send/Receive manually, despite the setting to check every “x”…
Upon my return to civilization yesterday, this is the state of affairs. Trillian is not connecting to Yahoo, but they have released a patch that will allow you to connect with MSN’s new protocols. They are working on a Yahoo patch, you can read about it, and get the MSN patch here. I couldn’t get…
Yesterday afternoon, the company that acts as our ISP at work disappeared from the face of the earth. OK not really, but it seemed that way for all intents and purposes. An electrical transformer blew somewhere near their building and their backup systems only had about an hour of life. I watched in horror as…
Bryan, over at BlendMart had this to say in response to one of our discussions about patching and firewalls and what not: “On a side note… to the folks commenting at Life of a one-man IT department, just because all your ports are closed and you don’t have Internet facing servers on your network is…