March, 2007 Archive
Sun Microsystems Inc. said it’s focusing its future strategy on areas of the technology industry poised for the strongest growth.
Sun executives discussed a strategy they call Redshift at a daylong event for news media Friday in East Palo Alto, Calif.
Sun’s chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, said Sun has identified three areas where demand for more computing is expected to be greatest: digital content delivery, high-performance computing and service providers to small to medium-size businesses.
The idea is to stay ahead of Moore’s Law, the technology industry calculation that computing power will double every 18 months while the cost keeps coming down, Read More»
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Open-source rivals Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. are each highlighting initiatives to bring Linux-based functionality to the desktop.
At its BrainShare 2007 convention this week in Salt Lake City, Novell detailed improvements to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 product, introduced in July 2006, while Red Hat provided more details about the desktop capability of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 operating system.
Jeffrey Jaffe, Novell’s chief technology officer, said a service pack upgrade to SLED 10 is now available. Service packs usually just include bug fixes, Jaffe said, but Novell’s adds desktop virtualization and the ability to run Windows in a Linux environment, part of Novell’s recently announced collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Read More»
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Federal agencies have until next February to implement a common set of secure configuration settings, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other organizations, on all of their Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.
But by May 1 of this year, they have to provide the White House Office of Management and Budget with draft plans for deploying and managing the new security configurations. And after June 30, the OMB wants agencies to use the common settings on all the new PCs they buy and make sure that the applications they’re purchasing have been certified to work under the settings.
The deadlines were detailed by Karen Evans, the de facto federal CIO, in a memorandum that was sent to agency IT officials last week. Read More»
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Microsoft Corp. is warning of an attack that could be used to divert someone’s Web traffic through a malicious proxy server.
Applications such as Internet Explorer use the Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) protocol to find a file that enables a browser to configure its proxy settings. However, it’s possible to plant a configuration file that would route traffic through a malicious proxy, the company said.
A malicious WPAD.dat file could be placed in the Domain Name System (DNS) or the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), Microsoft said. The client application looks in DNS or WINS to resolve the name of the hosting that has the proxy configuration file. Read More»
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Have a fear you will forget your password, or the adminstrator password. Well, back it up. I’d personally not worry about it all, but it’s a feature.
Backup up login password:
open Control Panel
User Accounts and Family Safety
User Accounts
Create a password reset disk
Follow wizard
Insert USB stick
Type current password
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Don’t want automatic backups running constantly to annoy you and make installing drivers take longer than it should? Or, just never really see yourself using it? It doesn’t back up your personal files, only system files.
Start
Backup and Restore Center
Create a restore point or change settings
Uncheck next to your disk under ‘Available Disks’
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This tweak will allow you to extend the activation deadline of Vista for at least a year in just 7 easy steps. For those who are unfamiliar with the slmgr -rearm techinque, this basically allows you to run a command in command prompt that allows you extend the 30-days grace period indefinetely.
In short, this is how you can use Vista legally for at least a year without activating:
1) First, we will use the well known slmgr -rearm method. When you have 1 day remaining to activiate, Click on the Start Pearl and access command prompt by typing cmd in the Search bar. Make sure to press Ctrl + Alt + Enter to access it in Administratve mode.
2) Then type slmgr -rearm and press Enter. In about 45 seconds, you will be prompted to restart your computer. After that, you have succesfully resetted the activation timer to 30 days. This will only work 3 times, giving you 120 days, but… we’re about to change that. Read More»
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Microsoft Outlook has a vast base of users. There are some who love it, some who hate it but have to use it because it’s the cornerstone of their office’s information system, and some who are more or less indifferent. Outlook is a personal information manager (PIM) comprised of three major functions: e-mail, contact management, and scheduling. As it turns out, Windows Vista comes with all three of these PIM tricks built in to the OS. This raises a question: If you upgrade to Vista, do you need Outlook?
With years of hardcore Outlook dependence under our belts, we explored the possibilities. Having spent considerable time with Windows Vista sans Outlook, we can honestly say that it’s possible to live without the Microsoft Office PIM, but your success will vary based on what you actually need out of your information management software. Read More»
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Your organization may utilize network projectors for meetings and conferences. To use these projectors, your computer must be connected to the local network and you will need to allow communication to pass through the Windows Firewall.
1. Click the Start button.
2. Select All Programs.
3. Click Accessories and select Connect to a Network Projector.
4. When prompted by the Windows Firewall, allow permission to connect to a Network Projector by clicking Yes.
5. Next, specify how you will connect to the projector. The choices are Search for a projector and Enter the projector address. Read More»
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In the corporate world, a lot of time is spent on locking down computers to minimize the risk of confidential information leaving the company. With the popularity of USB storage devices in recent years the problem for large corporations has exploded. Almost all users want to use USB storage devices to move data around. With the size of USB storage devices increasing so much in recent years, the risk is increasing as more and more data could possibly be stolen or lost accidentally. In companies, USB storage devices have been banned completely and disabled from use on company computers.
In Windows Vista there is an alternative that will allow your corporate users to be able to read from USB storage devices but not write any data to them. Effectively turning on USB storage devices for all users but making them read-only. This way users can still read information off of USB storage devices that a third-party vendor may provide data on while preventing the employee from writing any data back to the storage device. Read More»
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