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Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:32 PM

Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Perhaps it's a bit strong to say "if complete and utter chaos was lightning, Jeff Jones would be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards' " (as a favourite quote has it) but you must
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:41 PM

Window borders...

My carbon footprint has got worse: after the travel of the Road-show, I popped up to Leeds last night to talk to BCS. A round trip of 400 miles. While I was there Dave threw me one of those questions... the kind where you know the answer. You know that
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:59 PM

Product life cycles (and Virtual Server 2005)

It's always nice when someone says James O'Neill, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, reveals that Virtual Server 2005 support will end in 2014 - except that then people come and demand to know why you're revealing product plans. So, lets start with a basic
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Friday, September 14, 2007 10:34 AM

"Perfidious Microsoft"

I don't know whether to be angry or frustrated, and whether the target should be journalists who make mountains out of molehills, or the people in Redmond who give them the molehill to start with. Here's the story. The Windows update software changes
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:38 PM

Vista's desktop index and PowerShell.

Vista's desktop index has changed the way I work. I've stopped worrying about folders, any more than I worry about URLs for Internet content. It's either obvious or I find it with search. So... since I have all of my stuff indexed. I should be able to
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:46 PM

Getting a better PDF experience

Lets get prejudice out up front. I pendulum between liking Adobe products (e.g. Lightroom), admiring the technology but hating the way it's used ( Hugh has it right when it comes to flash use ), and getting thoroughly ticked off with PDF. e.g. Microsoft's
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:13 PM

NTBackup - restore for Vista

I'm not quite sure when it appeared, but this evening I noticed a link on the restore dialog box in Vista " Learn how to restore from backups created on Older versions of Windows ", there are 32 and 64Bit versions. I considered using a Virtual Machine
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:26 PM

On Time-zones...

Spring is here, Spring is here ... I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring, yes I do, don't you ? course you do. Actually when I look at the weather it's doesn't look like spring. But unlike Tom Lehrer , the one thing that makes spring complete
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:03 PM

The mouse James Bond would have.

A week or so ago I wrote about daft voices, and I feel like this should be in the voice of Sean Connery. (Which ish eashy to do. You jusht shubstitute mosht of the esshh shoundsh ....) I was given a new Wireless Presenter mouse 8000 - and it seems like
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:30 PM

Ooops. I gave out some duff information about limiting logons

As Eileen has already said our team spent last week at the BETT show . My first "proper" IT job after leaving university was working for RM who are the biggest supplier of IT to education and I did a couple of BETT shows when I worked for them; it's the
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:44 PM

Microsoft at CES

The Consumer electronics show starts in Las Vegas on Monday. The internal rumor mill has been going crazy and we've been told not to blog about .... well I can't tell you what obviously. Bill Gates is delivering a keynote speech on Sunday night - 6:30PM
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Friday, January 05, 2007 1:13 PM

More on keyboard short cuts.

Eileen mentioned something about Keyboard shortcuts on her blog, teasing me for not telling her about them, but forgetting that she and I both posted connected items in August. You can get a full list for Windows generally, Explorer, IE and Photo gallery
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Sunday, December 31, 2006 3:38 PM

Bootable USB keys

Since I raised the subject I've had a mail from a couple of people on the subject of making a bootable key. I described the steps making a USB key bootable using the Vista / Windows PE version of Diskpart. Here are the commands select disk 1 {or the number
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Monday, October 30, 2006 1:51 PM

Sony rookit on 1/4 million PCs, MSRT removes a malware somewhere every 3 seconds and other statistics.

I've been reading a paper about the Malicious-Software Removal Tool (MSRT, and I hyphenate it to prevent it being read as the Malicious software-removal tool), it's entitled, MSRT progress made, trends observed. If your interested in what the tool does,
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 5:08 PM

IE 7 is coming. Are you ready ?

Back in July, we announced that that IE 7 for Windows XP will be pushed out using Windows update. Since IE7 is bound up with Windows Vista, the release of IE7 for XP will happen at about the same time as Vista releases to manufacturing. A few weeks after
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