Author: Vince Kimball

The State of Massachusetts addresses Open Standards and Open Source. I attended a meeting with Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Eric Kriss, organized by the Massachusetts Software Council. A leaked internal memo relating to an “Open Standards, Open Source policy” has created much questioning by members of the software industry, and this informal meeting… Continue reading The State of Massachusetts addresses Open Standards and Open Source

Brick Level backups. I've seen a few posts in the newsgroups recently which indicate that Brick Level backups are still being performed. This type of backup is not recommended for a number of reasons, including… reliability, backup time and greater media requirements. Reliability is probably the main issue, as this backup type has proven to be… Continue reading Brick Level backups

ForestPrep and DomainPrep with Exchange 2003. The process for checking whether ForestPrep and DomainPrep have been completed successfully has changed for Exchange 2003. Instead of running the ADSI Edit snap-in and Policytest.exe utility as is required for Exchange 2000, there's a new tool called OrgPrepCheck for Exchange 2003. This deployment tool can be found on the… Continue reading ForestPrep and DomainPrep with Exchange 2003

Mobile Innovation.  I'm about to go to bed, but noticed that the latest version of Wireless Business & Technology Magazine has been published, and amazingly all the contents are available online. There are some decently detailed stories in there, including this article about adoption of mobile technologies in corporations. It cleanly breaks down the process into… Continue reading Mobile Innovation

Still Angry After All These Years. Many of the New Economy tenets Tom Peters espoused have fallen by the wayside. But this most famous of management thinkers wants you to know he remains riled–and relevant. [Fast Company]

10 years. If you'd told me 10 years ago that 10 years from now not only would Darin and I still be together but we'd have two kids and have moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and back again and done whatever else it is we've done in 10 years I'd have said, “Hey,… Continue reading 10 years

Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards. In “The Board Member's Guide to Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach to Strengthening NonProfit Organizations” (1997), Fisher Howe provides a short, practical guide to strategic planning for members of the board of a nonprofit organization. He maintains that strategic planning is inherently a function of the board, not management and… Continue reading Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards

Boingo inside Linksys?. Linksys's VPN wireless gateway, the WRV54G, has setting to turn unit into Boingo hot spot: I was unaware of this feature in the new $230 VPN gateway. Apparently, I've got a firmware version that wasn't intended to be public yet. However, it's numbered and dated identically with the firmware found on Linksys's… Continue reading Boingo inside Linksys?

eWEEK: Microsoft Alters IE Over Eolas Suit. The change will mean that Web developers must update methods used in Web pages with ActiveX Controls or users will face a dialog box asking them to click “OK” for the Web browser to load the control, Microsoft officials said. [Tomalak's Realm]