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Will Work for Referrals. I learned a long time ago that one of the best questions you can ask anyone in business is “how will I know when I have someone I can refer to you?” As a result, I'm always pairing up people I meet with service providers I already know. Unfortunately, I keep… Continue reading Will Work for Referrals

An Arsenal to Combat Spyware. No matter how careful you are, one of these days you will get a spyware infestation. Wired News' Michelle Delio reviews several commercial and free products to help you out on that unlucky day. [Wired News]

Microsoft Issues Warning. Microsoft issued a warning about using Internet Explorer for browsing. Security experts were still trying to determine Friday how IIS servers were compromised and whether applying the latest patches for IIS and Internet Explorer would protect users from the attacks. “My gut feeling is (patching) doesn't protect you,” Dunham said. “If I… Continue reading Microsoft Issues Warning.

Microsoft issued a warning

Update: SilverKeeper 1.1.2. The backup and synchronization software adds improved system performance when SilverKeeper is not the active application, correct copying of packages from volumes to folders, and other changes. [MacInTouch]

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….

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.  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

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

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. 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