January 2009 - Posts
I was searching this morning when I started to notice warnings that the site I am being directed to might contain malware. I did a news search and sure enough, I am seeing results in thailand and on a site called Neowin reporting the same thing. Here is a screenshot of what I am seeing [...]
It looks like the change to digital television is going to be delayed. I can’t blame the new administration for wanting to hold off. There is a huge backlog of people waiting for coupons for the converter boxes. One of the deals in the new deadline is an exception that will allow stations to [...]
A new worm is making the rounds to machines which haven’t been kept up to date with security updates. The worm works because of an exploit which was patched in October’s Out-of-Band patch MS08-067, which I blogged about.
To ensure you don’t pick this up this new worm, make sure you are up to date [...]
Tracey and I jumped on the computer last night and noticed the picture of the plane in water with people standing on the wings. We thought, what the heck? We read the news article, realized what happen and checked out the news. Awesome stuff. Ditching a plane on water is tough, and usually unsuccessful as [...]
Just getting up to date and I notice Microsoft has posted a page for the Media Center problems with the latest Windows 7 release. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367 is the page where you can find the information and the hotfix. It explains the problem and has the official Microsoft links to the download. Fixes play back and record [...]
Note, this meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night.
Free Evening Event @ Microsoft Ottawa
Thursday, January 15th 6:00 - 8:00 PM
SQL Server 2008 Developer Enhancements Part 2 -
Management Studio Enhancements & PowerShell Integration, Michelle Gutzait
At our December meeting Klaus showed us a number of fantastic enhancements to T-SQL and the relational engine. For the January session [...]
I installed Windows 7 Beta on Saturday to my laptop. It had just finished installing and was I just starting to check it out when Tracey noticed I was done. She then asked to borrow the laptop and she logged on to the machine so she could surf the web. I had wanted to try [...]
The MDT 2010 Beta is now available on the Microsoft Connect site as I saw on the Deployment Toolkit Team Blog . This is the next version of the Microsoft Deployment toolkit, which is an accelerator for both OS and application deployments.
What’s New?
Support for deploying Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to [...]
Just got the word that Windows 7 General release is now available on the Windows 7 website. Also make sure you patch the release for the mp3 flaw.
I also noticed in the release notes that if you have an iPhone and install the 64 bit version of Windows 7, and you install the 32-bit [...]
The Windows 7 Beta was to have been released to the general public and you were to get the beta through the Windows 7 page at Microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/. Having went to the page and looking around, I clicked on IT Pro. From there a page comes up and says basically that the interest in Windows [...]
Windows 7 Beta 1 is now available to TechNet subscribers. The 64 bit and 32 bit versions are in the downloads section, along with a hot fix, language packs and a drivers pack.
I though it was Interesting to see the instructions to the DVD, “backup all MP3 files before installing Windows 7”. That hot [...]
The Industry Canada plan for the transition to Digital Television in Canada has been released. You can download the plan at http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/vwapj/DTV_PLAN_Dec08-e.pdf/$file/DTV_PLAN_Dec08-e.pdf
Nothing major crazy in the plan, but some stations are moving which will affect the type of antenna you have. If you are looking for an antenna, check out the antenna chart at Digital [...]
Tracey and I started up a blog at www.mucking-around.com which covers gardening and cooking. If you were at my apartment this summer, you would have noticed the major container garden I had going on my patio. I enjoy my garden and cooking the stuff that I grow, so the new blog will be dedicated to [...]
Tracey and I started up a new blog at www.mucking-around.com which covers gardening and cooking. If you were at my apartment this summer, you would have noticed the major container garden I had going on my patio. I enjoy my garden and cooking the stuff that I grow, so the new blog will be dedicated [...]