Today I am writing to you from my test install of Microsoft Windows Vista RC1 Build 5600 and Windows Live Writer Beta. I have been using Vista for about a week and so far so good. The Aero Glass interface is quite beautiful and I do like some of the security enhancements that have been [...]
Do you ever get tired of installing the department printer for each user of a PC? Has your attempts to educate your users ended in frustration? Well thanks to a neat little tool built right into Windows, your troubles are over.
For anyone who uses Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and needs to force a client to check for updates, you can run the following command and the client will check with your WSUS server.
I have installed Windows Defender on a few of the corporate laptops and noticed that they were not getting definition updates. I tried reinstalling the product but was unable to get it to update. Google turned up some leads but none of them worked for me. On a whim I went to check [...]
If you run a MS Exchange server it is a good idea to implement SPF to help protect yourself against spammers spoofing your domain.
You can use this tool to create your SPF code and then this tutorial to add the entry into your DNS server. Consider this another tool in the fight against spam.
There is a good discussion over at slashdot.org about how to explain DRM to someone who isn't familiar to it, i.e. a non-techie. There are a number of good solutions and I suggest that if you don't know what it is, or know someone who wants to have it explained, to read the discussion [...]
I just came across a good overview of the similarities and differences between Nvidia's SLI and ATI's Crossfire multi-GPU systems. Read about it here. Its worth a read of you are a bleeding edge gamer and want the eye candy, but then again, who doesn't want the eye candy.
A recent revue of ATI vs Nvidia [...]
Ad-Rotator is simple, yet effective ad rotation plugin for Wordpress written by Angsuman Chakraborty . As is often the case with community written plugins, the technical docs on how to get the plugin to work are limited and somewhat confusing, specifically in regards to Google's Ad-sense program. I was able to reach Angsuman via email [...]
Digital Rights Management has long been a thorn in my side. Although the laws here in the frozen north are different than in the sunny south , we Canadians feel the effects of the RIAA and DRM. I have never liked DRM and looked for ways around it, after all, I purchased the [...]
From The Register.co.uk: Identity thieves posed as home owners in order to sell the rental property of an elderly Canadian immigrant…
Here are a few sites on protecting yourself from being a victim of ID theft.
Canada Post Canada.com Safe Canada Digital Home
