From the archive

March 2005

146 posts

Cybercrime Mobs Revealed

Baseline has a great series of articles on the different cybercrimes and how they operate. They talk about who are these cyber criminals and what the law enforcement agencies are doing to stop them. The articles are well written and I am certain you will learn something from reading them.

MIE 7.0 Information

From Microsoft Watch, Microsoft has been keeping details on Internet Explorer 7.0, code-named “Rincon” to themselves, but Microsoft Watch has found some information from their partners. There will be tabs, PNG support, possibly a built-in News Aggregator, and IDN support. Here’s what they said about security enhancements.

Marqui wins 2005 InnoTech Innovation Award

Marqui has chalked up another award by winning a 2005 InnoTech Innovation Award. For the full details check out their press release. I am paid to blog about Marqui and their Content/Communications Management System. Today concludes 3 months of paid blogging. I have chosen to continue for the next 2 months and will only be producing a few articles a

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away

There was an article I read in Yahoo News from the Washington Post on BitTorrents. It explains that too many legit uses exist for BitTorrent for the service to be shut down. The MPAA is admitting that there are good and bad uses for BitTorrent and that they will only go after people that are helping users to download illegal

Rebate Rip-Offs

We all hate those stinkin' Mail-in Rebates! I'd love to see figures on just how many are actually paid to the customer and how many customers get so mad or frustrated that they just chuck the whole rebate form and forget to send it in. Then there's all of us that send in the rebates and get told by a

Large Hack Attack Over the Weekend

Internet Week says that the Internet Storm Center tracked a large-scaled attack over the weekend. It attacked hosting servers and turned them into distributors of the malicious code. "It seems that the attack used both direct and indirect means to infect users, said the ISC. In some cases, a script was appended to all home pages of the sites hosted

Bootable WinXP CD or DVD

We all have heard of the linux distributions that could be booted from a CD, now we can do the same thing with Windows. It's called BartPE (BART Pre-installed Enviroment). It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing

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GNC-2005-03-15

A very sick geek tonight fighting the flu but the show must go on. GNC-2005-03-15.mp3 GNC-2005-03-15.wma GNC-2005-03-15.ogg GNC-2005-03-15.torrent [ADV 10:05 www.msmobiles.com] New Apple OS April 1st? BOKU Micorsoft RSS Search Firefox good to go! Skype release Voice Mail and More Startup Advice MSN Desktop Beating Google Desktop? Linkblog Tools needed? State of the Blogsphere The Chris Pirillo Show Interview with

Fascinating state of the Blogsphere Report

Fighting the flu today so I feel like I got hit by a truck. Lot's of work to do and not a good time to get sick. But I saw this report on the state of the Blogspehere and wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to look at it. [David Sifry]

Microsoft’s Monday Partner’s Newsletter Links

From Microsoft's Partner Newsletter; Sales Quick Reference: Tips for Discussing Portal Solutions Use the Sales Quick Reference Guide to present the benefits of integrated portal solutions to your customers during sales calls. This resource provides a Microsoft key value proposition and helps you market portal solutions effectively. Deliver Remote Monitoring and Management Services: Learn how to effectively market, sell, and

P2P Wins Court Battle in France

I take back some of things I had thought about our friends across the Atlantic. A French Appeal Court ruled that a countryman who downloaded 500 movies via P2P was within his rights because he used them for private viewing, not distributing or selling them to the public. He also paid tax on the blank media he recorded it on.

A Personal Jumper Cable for the BSOD

We are all familiar with Window's BSOD, (Blue Screen of Death). Well IBM developed their own personal jumper cable to counter the BSOD. It was first shown at the IBM Partnerworld 2005 in Vegas. IBM developed Linux technology which would change a personal device into a rescue and recovery device. You can read the story on the kernalthread blog. Here

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