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The IE Blog has some information regarding things to watch out for when installing XP SP 3 over different versions of IE.
Internet Explorer 6 Users
XPSP3 will continue to ship with IE6 and contains a roll-up of the latest security updates for IE6. If you are still running Internet Explorer 6, then XPSP3 will [...]

Last time I talked about the parts needed for the media server I built. I thought I would take a moment and show how I have the disks set up.
At left is a screen shot from the storage manager. I partitioned one of the 320GB hard drives into 2 partitions. The C: partition holds [...]

One nice thing about Windows Vista is that it has built in support for unzipping compressed files such as those with the .zip extension. It is nice until you have to unzip a file that contains lots of directories and small files.
Tonight I was updating the Wordpress software that runs this blog. I downloaded the [...]

In my house, we are using laptops more and more. All kinds of data on a single little laptop hard drives makes me nervous. Also, without some form of central storage it is hard to share files. What to do about it?
There are a myriad of options. I could buy a large USB drive that [...]

The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures. During a banking transaction, Silentbanker will change the user’s bank account details over to the attacker’s account, all the while mimicking what the user would expect to see from a typical banking [...]

This past February I posted a launcher for Windows Live Writer so that you can take it with your between computers and retain all your settings. Today I am releasing version 2.0 of the Launcher. Much has changed with Windows Live Writer and I have learned some new techniques for making it portable. This is [...]

Earlier this month 2 hot fixes were made available by Microsoft for Windows Vista.
KB938194 - This update resolves some compatibility issues and reliability issues in Windows Vista. By applying this update, you can achieve better reliability and hardware compatibility in various scenarios.
KB938979 - By applying this update, you can achieve better performance and responsiveness in various [...]

Today (last Friday in July) is Sys Admin Appreciation day. Thanks to all the sys admins out there for keeping the servers and networks of the world humming along safe and securely.
8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
 
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Twice: Microsoft announced today at its WinHEC engineering conference that Gateway, LaCie and Medion will develop products based on Microsoft’s Windows Home Server operating system.
 
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Microsoft has updated Remote Desktop Connection version 6.0 You can now get it for all versions of windows.
 
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