From the monthly archives:

July 2006

My mother in-laws’ birthday was yesterday and I have her birthday recorded in her contact in Outlook. This then becomes an all day event listed in my calendar and of course synchronised  to my phone. Now, by default, Outlook adds a 15 minute reminder to every calendar item, so guess what happened at 11:45pm on [...]

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The latest TechNet Magazine has an article by Raymon Chen on the “Program Files” and “Documents and Settings” folders, including changes to the profiles folder in Windows Vista. It gives some clarification to the changes in Vista and I thought that it applies to my previous post. “Another security change in Windows Vista is that [...]

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I’ve recently updated a few WSUS servers with WSUS SP1. The admin tool shows build numbers but does not state if the version is RTM or SP1. For reference these build numbers are: WSUS RTM: 2.0.0.2472 WSUS SP1: 2.0.0.2620

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Task Manager from Windows Vista build 5472 is reporting some interesting uptime on my laptop today. Click the picture and prepare to be impressed.. Thats 592619 hours of uptime, or about 24692 days or approximately 67 years.

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More fun with consoles developed in Java. Check out the administration tool for Symantecs’ Gateway Security 1600 appliance – 100% CPU usage just to display the logon dialog then 100Mb of RAM just after opening the console:

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One of the great features of Citrix Advanced Access Control is the ability to control access to internal resources from trusted machines with End Point Analysis. Citrix have implemented their own client and server components to perform end-point analysis and ensure that client machines are safe for access. Microsoft are implementing their own tools for [...]

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Interesting idea for changing the desktop metaphor, try displaying this over a Terminal Server session.. YouTube video: Bumptop 3D Desktop Prototype

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