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Thursday, February 12, 2004 - Posts

How Microsoft Develops and Releases Patches

An interesting article in Technet from Jeffrey Jones When we launched our first security newsletter in December, I asked you to send me your comments and feedback so that I could be your advocate at Microsoft for security issues—and you delivered! Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:38 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Wireless Appliance Chargers

Neil asks when someone will invent a wireless charger for electrical appliances and end the misery of untangling the multitude of chargers for various devices we all seem to carry these days? I'm pleased to tell you that they already have. Splashpower Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:47 PM by adam | 2 Comments
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Bloggers: MS are listening

Via KC The MS events team have set up a link for bloggers to point to Tech-Ed at http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkID=404299. They want to track the clickthrough rate via that link, so they can determine if there is enough traffic to make it worth possibly Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:04 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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UK - Avocent Techland KVM Seminar on Server Management and KVM-over-IP

Techland are holding a seminar on the 2nd March on IP based KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) Switches Avocent make KVM's for HP, Dell and IBM too. Its worth going along as the location is an excellent hotel in Runnymede (Where the Magna Carta was signed in Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:58 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Windows 2000/2003: Multiple Forests Considerations White Paper

Microsoft have released a paper that outlines situations in which you may need to deploy more than one Active Diectory forest. "This paper describes the conditions that warrant creating more than one Active Directory forest for a single enterprise, including Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:35 PM by adam | 0 Comments
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Lottery Double Rollover - 17 Million Pound Jackpot

The UK lottery jackpot this saturday is 17 million quid. If im a bit late with my first post, you'll know why ;) Everyone I know says that if they won the lottery, they would never work again. Im sure I would. I think having lots of money would empower Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:43 AM by adam | 2 Comments
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Decompression Bombs

Found an interesting article on decompression bombs as a means of Denial of Service attack.. "Here's an example scenario: A mail arrives at your super-barbed-wire-protected mail gateway. The gzip-compressed attachment - only 7k big - is grabbed by the Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:10 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Updated KB Article - Error Messages Occur When You Install an Exchange 2000 Computer

Error Messages Occur When You Install an Exchange 2000 Computer When you install Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 on a computer, you may receive the following error message: Setup failed installing sub-component information Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:49 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Kynn is in Orkut Jail.. and he likes it!

A week ago, I received an Orkut friend request from a guy called Kynn Bartlett I checked out his profile and his testimonials all checked out and he seemed like a nice enough guy so I added him. Today I received this: Weird. For the last few days I've Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:21 AM by adam | 4 Comments
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Marathon blogging

Well I seem to have beaten Tuesdays record. Yesterday I managed 18 posts and I even got a couple of hours karate training in ;) Let's see what happens today :) Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:09 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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First GeekDojo 100 post Blogger

I know I said I was going to bed but i just noticed the post count.. The second lot of 50 seem to have come a lot faster then the first 50 (probably the 30+ posts in the last 40 hours have had something to do with it ;) Here's to the next 100 :D I Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:29 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Fark RSS

One more before I go to bed... Fark.com Finally have an RSS feed Now I shall sleep well :D Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:21 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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3 x SPV E200 and 3 x MPx200 up for grabs

Paul over at MoDaCo has these phones available in a free prize draw. You have to be in the UK to enter and you need to have an existing Orange contract. Prize draw closes on the 15th. Personally, Im pretty disappointed with the MS Smartphone. It was Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:11 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Want to ditch the feds? Get a Mac

I found this article by Scott Granneman the other day and I thought i'd share it with you. "Well, it finally happened. Right before Christmas, I had a little visit from the FBI. That's right: an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation came to Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:58 AM by adam | 2 Comments
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Failure extending the AD schema during Exchange Setup

Alex McLeod has blogged about a problem you may encounter when extending the AD schema either during ADC installation or when running forestprep (although looking at the installation, I'd guess it would apply to other MS products which extend the schema Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:41 AM by adam | 0 Comments
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Get a free DotNet Compact Framework Poster and Coaster :)

Via Neil You can get your very own poster and coaster by contacting jono and telling him what you're doing with the .NET Compact Framework. He says you can even swear if you like. Hurrah! While we're on the subject of free stuff, anyone know of any Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:27 AM by adam | 2 Comments
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Clear your calendars for 2006!

Not only is 2006 the year when we supposedly get to see the RTM version of  Longhorn but its also when we get to see The Simpsons: The Movie! DVD fanatic got some inside info from Mike Reiss, a writer and producer for the show. Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:15 AM by adam | 1 Comments
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