Monthly Archives: August 2005

It has been quite a while since I wrote an article on Vladville and some events during last week prompted me to take a second look at Jabber IM. Jabber is a free, open source, secure, standards-based instant messaging platform … Continue reading →

Good news, Microsoft SBS team has announced a new blog dedicated to SBS Support issues. It is being lead by Mark Stanfill: My name is Mark Stanfill and I am a technical lead on the SBS team. My daily job … Continue reading →

Now this is impressive. I had gotten used to the original Google Desktop Search to the point of just minimizing and embedding it into my start bar but this new release is just incredible. They have added useful plugins (the … Continue reading →

The Microsoft SBS Product and Development teams have announced plans to visit 12 U.S. cities this October as part of the second U.S. SBS Partner Group Tour. The goal of this tour is to take the Small Business Partners and … Continue reading →

Yup, its my birthday and I’m 27 now. Strangely enough, not feeling old at all (this year I ran 3 marathons and a 10K which is more than I’ve done my first 26 years on this planet). Nope, not feeling … Continue reading →

Woohoo, the Exchange 2003 SP2 alpha is out. Yup, for those of you not up with the lingo the “Community Technology Preview” basically means alpha so if you install this on your production server.. well, I guess you won’t be … Continue reading →

We were at the Microsoft Quarterly Partner Technight in Orlando last night (with Rene Alamo and James Cuomo) and it was a very informative event. We pressed them about the details of the new SA and they admitted they did … Continue reading →

Not threatening systems with Office 2003. If you’re on OfficeXP or Visual Studio only, we kindly ask you not to browse the web for a little while. 😉 FrSIRT Advisory : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1450 CVE Reference : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH Rated as : Critical … Continue reading →

For those of you that have been influenced by my use of PocketPC on many mailing lists (or business communication) will be happy to know that the new extended rom for SX66 has been released by Chris the SX66 ROM … Continue reading →

Slashdot is reporting news that CNN and a number of other media sites are getting owned through a pnp security hole for which a patch was released a few days ago. So not only do these companies have an incompetent … Continue reading →