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Book of the Month for November 2006: The Cuckoos Egg
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Good day everyone! Welcome to the November book of the month, The Cuckoos Egg by Cliff Stoll . This is an excellent book that talks about a story about how an astronomer turned mainframe programmer tracks a $.75 accounting error to hacker across the world...
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Anything is possible, I am published, you can Search on it!
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Guess what! It’s official! I am now a published author!! <Hold for applause> If you picked up the latest issue of TechNet Magazine, you undoubtedly flipped immediately to page 54, where you found my article on Windows Desktop Search article...
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Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange 2007, Cleveland Event (6-21-2006)
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Good day all my User Group folks from Cleveland ! I appologize for the big delay in getting this posted. Thank you for spending the evening with http://www.gcpcug.org and myself at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel . I really had a great time talking about...
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Enhancements to Client Access Services and Web Services in Exchange Server 2007: Webcast (8-14-2006)
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Good afternoon all of my Exchange 2007 Client Access, Thank you for attending my web cast on Exchange 2007 client access, Harold Wong and Kevin Remde did an excellent job and handled the questions that came into the queue. Please comment if you have...
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Comparison: Microsoft Active Sync vs Verizon's Wireless Sync for mobile devices, get the SMS out!
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over 7 years ago
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I just wanted to share recent customer question I received from Bob. The story was sparked by a new addition to my technology family. Thanks to Harold Wong , I now have a new HTC Wizard, more importantly it has the new Mobile 5 bits and the security feature...
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Microsoft Windows Vista availability announced!!!
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over 7 years ago
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That is right folks, Microsoft is planning on releasing Vista by the Holiday Season. So get those letters to Santa ready (feel free to use my example below): Dear Santa, I have been good all year and I would like a dozen copies of Microsoft Windows...
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Banned XBOX 360 Commercial: You have to see this!
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over 7 years ago
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I just watched one of the best commercials I have ever seen for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. Not quite as good as Terrible Terry Tate but this was fantastic. Now apparently our lawyers at Microsoft pulled the commercial, but I thought you would like to see...
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Bill G on MTV!
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Tonight at 8:30, MTV will be airing an MTV News special titled, “The Notorious B.G. – A Forum with Bill Gates” This special was taped as part of the recent college tour. In it, Bill discusses innovation, education and his vision for...
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Group Policies and Access Denied
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over 8 years ago
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One Technologies in Active Directory I am extremely passionate about is Group Policy and I would love to write some more articles on Group Policy, but I want to make sure I publish topics that are of interest to you. So if you would like see more on group...
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Virtual PC Guest OS Performance Tips Part 3 of 3 --- Boot VPC's in a Minute!!!!
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over 8 years ago
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So here’s the trick to boot your VPC’s in a minute, for VPCs you can set them up so that you can close them and when you restart you are resumed to with a save state. I did have one initial problem with using a variable in the original batch...
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Columbus, OH Questions and Answeres SQL 2005 (11-29-2005)
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Good afternoon everyone! Thank you for the attending the event! I had a bit of a tragedy, and my hard drive physically failed. Unfortunately, all the original blog posting I had with all the questions and answers I had from the session was on the drive...
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Columbus, OH Questions and Answers Windows 2003R2 and Exchange SP2 (1-17-2006)
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Good afternoon Columbus! Thank you for attending the live event and I hope everyone had a great day. I look forward to seeing everyone again. There were a a few questions that I wanted to make sure I answered. So here the Questions and Answers from the...
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TechNet Webcast: Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Sever 2008 R2 Technical Overview
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over 4 years ago
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Thank you to everyone who attended the webcast I delivered on July 2. We chatted about some of the new AD features in R2. You can watch the replay of the webcast here: Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Overview...
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Interview: The WORLDS FASTEST SERVER!
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Can your server do 121mph? Well the server from the folks at hostmysite.com can! Wendy and I were walking around the floor of SXSW, we saw a drag race motorcycle on the floor. Upon some investigation, we found the bike was actually...
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Are you this parent?
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A mother is making a breakfast of fried eggs for her teenage son. Suddenly the boy bursts into the kitchen. He screams: "Careful! CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my goodness! You're cooking too many at once. Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We...
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ScreenCast: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 part 1: Interop Goodies
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over 5 years ago
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I am excited to deliver this quick screencast on Internet Explorer 8 beta 1. In this screencast, I show some of the great enhancements that IE 8 will do to help solve some common problems around CSS development as well as some new features leveraging...
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ScreenCast: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 part 2: Activities and Webslices!
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Welcome to part 2 of my screen cast on IE 8 beta 1. In this screencast I take a look at two new awesome features, Activities and Webslices. Take a look at the screencast here, remember to double click to go full screen: Windows Media Player...
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Matt on the Floor at SXSW* Talking with Cynergy and a New User Interface
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over 5 years ago
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In this interview I talk with Rick Barraza from Cynergy Systems. Rick works a lot with new interfaces. In this video he discusses one of the coolest interfaces I have ever seen. Additionally he led the presentation team that won the PhizzPop...
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What happens when I get a new PC?
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Two Words: Hurricane Mongo More on the new PC later.
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Screencast: Faster and Easier Browsing
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00As you can tell I am pretty excited about IE8, I believe it will fundamentally improve’s everyone’s browsing experience, people like you and me, but also my dad. Honest story my dad knows how to search the web using live search, which in of itself...
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If Michael Phelps was a country, he would be tied for 5th
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Interesting thought for the day. Michael Phelps with his 8 gold medals would be tied for 5th (with Japan and Australia) for total gold medals behind China, USA, Great Britain, and Germany! What an amazing accomplishment for Michael and the USA men...
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Go Buckeyes!!!! Top-ranked QB Terrelle Pryor commits to Ohio State
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OH... All 6'6" 227 pounds of the #1 rated Quarterback in 2008 named Terrelle Pryor has committed to Ohio State! Go Buckeyes! As a senior he threw for 1,889 yards and 23 touchdowns. Rushed for 1,889 yards and scored 35 touchdowns. You can read the...
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A fun look at two IT Pro Evangelists
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over 5 years ago
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My buddy Keith and I decided to go to interview some IT Pros at the Houston Launch event, but we also decided to interview each other. As my buddy Keith said this is 7 minutes of your life you’ll never get back . :-) Also Keith and I...
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Windows Vista Security did not help sell Vista
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Quick Disclaimer: I am not writing this post to scare you, but I wanted you to make aware of the thought process of the security community, specifically the not so nice component. Security in any software is a mandatory requirement, and not a value...
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Are you a TechNet Subscriber? Use TMSAM09 and I can save you 15%
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Happy Friday Boys and Girls! Due to the success the program from last year, it is back again this year and I can save you 15%!!!!! Just Use TMSAM09 when ordering your new subscription. I also have a big announcement based on your feedback...
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