“How Tomorrow’s Technologies will impact your life”
these are the words in bold on the back cover. Since this was written in 2001, and published in 2002, I will have to be forgiving to the authors in advance for notgetting everything correct. I am excited toread what interesting ideas have NOT come to fruition yet. As [...]
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I was about to submit a request for a feature in the webmail software I use when I got lost in link-land. I stumbled upon the “Executive Blog” for VMware.
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2010/01/vmware-to-acquire-zimbra.html
It turns out that today my webmail suite was purchased by VMware. In the blog VMware’s CTO explains how the acquisition of an open-source email [...]
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NOTE: I have only verified this topic with Windows server 2003. I expect the same or similar behavior from Windows XP. It is possible that Windows Vista, 7 , server 2008 and everything after is affected if you use only the simple GUI. I doubt this will be an issue with the “advanced config” tool.
There [...]
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DefaultAppPool terminated unexpectedly 0xffffffff after install of Microsoft KB 973917
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Tags: Microsoft, patching, Server 2003, updating, Windows
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The Author was mentioned in a different book “The Future Files” that I read a few months ago.
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Starting early in the morning the latest update for Avast has been tagging .exe files as a rather old trojan.
Of course the easiest thing to do is panic! Unfortunately in this case practically everything is being tagged with “Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]“. This was brought to my attention when someone tried to run Rosetta Stone. [...]
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Tags: Avast, false positive, virus
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My growing list of likes and dislikes with iphones.
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forward-slash in IM ‘return address’ field for OpsMgr notification breaks all notification workflows
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Tags: email, IM, instant message, Operations Manager, OpsMgr
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For the last week I’ve been backing up data on my DNS-323 for the sole purpose of updating the firmware. It’s important to have a backup just in case the device takes the RAID set with it like it did a few revisions ago. I have had luck over the last 2 firmware updates where [...]
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Tags: backup, disappointment, Dlink, DNS-323, firmware, ftp, marketing, sftp, update
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