I Remember When Kids Didn't Have Cell Phones….. Mobile Users Top 1.5 Billion “As of the first week of June 2004, the mobile service industry broke the 1.5 billion subscriber mark worldwide. Research firm EMC also predicts that the industry will pass the 2 billion mark as early as 2006, far earlier than some other… Continue reading I Remember When Kids Didn't Have Cell Phones….
Author: Vince Kimball
OneNote 2003 SP1 has wrapped
OneNote 2003 SP1 has wrapped. Today we had our ship party for OneNote 2003 SP1 down at Sammamish State Park (at the south end of Lake Sammamish in Issaquah for those who might know the greater Seattle area). Although we have signed off on the code, the process of building a patch, verifying it, and… Continue reading OneNote 2003 SP1 has wrapped
Updated RPC Over HTTP Paper
Updated RPC Over HTTP Paper. Microsoft has released an updated paper titled Exchange Server 2003 RPC over HTTP Deployment Scenarios. This guide describes four scenarios for deploying the Windows RPC over HTTP feature in a corporate environment, for both Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1, and Exchange Server 2003. Several changes have been made –… Continue reading Updated RPC Over HTTP Paper
Florida to Tax Home Networks
Florida to Tax Home Networks. Home and small businesses with two or more networked computers may be subject to a communications tax in Florida. No one seems to want the tax, but it's moving along anyway. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
OS X Keychain and Win XP Credential Manager
OS X Keychain and Win XP Credential Manager. Somebody asked me today why Windows XP doesn't have something like Mac OS X's Keychain: a secure, systemwide store for names and passwords. And then I remembered, dimly, that it does — sort of. When XP came out, all the feature lists mentioned Credential Manager, which uses… Continue reading OS X Keychain and Win XP Credential Manager
WP
WP. The 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism report was deeply flawed. It was rife with bad data and simple math errors. Today the CIA manager of the team that assembled the report, John Brennan, blamed the errors on antiquated computer equipment and personnel shortages. In the private sector, he and his team would be looking for another job… Continue reading WP
NYT
NYT. New book by the former CIA manager of the “bin Laden station” says the US is losing the war on terrorism. “U.S. leaders refuse to accept the obvious,” the officer writes. “We are fighting a worldwide Islamic insurgency — not criminality or terrorism — and our policy and procedures have failed to make more than a modest… Continue reading NYT
Logan Launches Wi-Fi Service
Logan Launches Wi-Fi Service. Boston's Logan airport turns Wi-Fi on for a fee tomorrow: The service will run $7.95 per day and be offered in Terminals B, C, and D; E already had Wi-Fi. A may come later, according to earlier reports. There's no word on roaming or resale through aggregator networks or bilateral roaming… Continue reading Logan Launches Wi-Fi Service
SysAdmin Week
SysAdmin Week. This week is sysadmin week, in which I catch up on a few months of accumulated system administration headaches. On Monday I went down to Peer 1 Networks' colocation facility in New York, where the main Joel on Software server lives. Peer 1 provides free bandwidth and a wee shelf for Joel on Software, for… Continue reading SysAdmin Week
You Bought It, Now Audit It
You Bought It, Now Audit It. Performing IT audits for law firms and corporate legal departments is one of the consulting services that I offer. You would think that this type of service would largely sell itself. However, lawyers are a hard-sell group. In many firms, even an initial assessment will likely help stop the… Continue reading You Bought It, Now Audit It