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Anyone can write an article these days…

Everyone has a blog, including my dog .  For the past few years the debate on whether blogs are journalism has been discussed.  Are they?  What’s the difference in writing for a magazine or online publication and a blog?  Someone

Class Reunion GPS Mashup

I have often wondered why it is that I live in a popular part of Texas, yet I never see anyone I know from high school or college.  It makes you wonder if we are really like two ships passing in the night.  Sure we see a radar blip on the screen

Messenger for Mac 7 released - now available for download

Messenger for Mac 7 is an integrated communications client that enables you to communicate with contacts within and outside your organization. Messenger for Mac 7 is a Universal application that is built to run on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs
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I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

I noticed this morning that Windows XP SP3 is now on the TechNet subscriber download area. See my download from Akamai above.  To the best of my knowledge, the bits are being provided to TechNet and MSDN subscribers ahead of just about everyone else

Who's your Daddy MacBook Pro? The ThinkPad T61p

I've been hearing for months and months how great the Apple MacBook Pro is at suspending and resuming from sleep, and how Windows Vista sucks. Don't believe it. My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p thumped the MacBook Pro handily in my testing yesterday afternoon.

Microsoft RDP Client for OS X - Beta 3 now available

If you are running OS X on a Mac and want to connect to a Windows server or client machine via a remote desktop connection, you should download and try the latest beta.  I’m still on the previous release, but this caught my eye so I thought

I'm a Twit

Any of you on Twitter ? It's pretty interesting. It's like instant messaging for voyeurs. Be a lurker (follow). Right now I'm such a newbie, that there isn't a lot of action for me. I'm not quite sure who to follow so I just added a few of the folks I
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Symmetrical 15meg speeds rock

At lunch time, I called Verizon to bump my FIOS data plan speeds up a notch. I left my download speed alone (15meg) but had them change the upload speed from 2meg to 15meg. Yep, I have a 15meg connection each direction now. I’m on the month-to-month plan
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Walt spills the beans on new iPhone release?

Walt Mossberg was filmed talking about a lot of interesting subjects a couple of days ago. He went on a bit of a rant about the lame broadband connections most people have in the US. In fact, he singled out Verizon. I thought that was pretty interesting

24 Hours of Windows Server 2008

We're a little less than halfway through the series we started on Windows Server 2008.  So far, nine of the 24 parts are available for on demand viewing.  Here are the links to the on demand parts that are available, and the sign up links for

Windows Active Directory (AD) - Inside Out 11 Part Series

Like the Group Policy series links I just posted, there are some core concepts with Active Directory that are timeless as well.  We are updating the content to include changes to AD since the release of Windows Server 2008.  Until then, here

Windows Group Policy Fundamentals - 14 Part Webcast Series

Windows Group Policy is a topic that is relatively timeless. For those of you looking for some fundamental information, don't forget the fourteen part series we did a while back. It's a good starting place. We are planning an update to the series so hang

Windows Server 2008 launch slide decks now available

Session 1 | What's New in Windows Server 2008 Download PowerPoint Presentation Session 2 | Virtualization and Your Infrastructure Download PowerPoint Presentation Session 3 | Securing Your IT Infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 Download PowerPoint

Stump The Panel Time

Still undecided about Windows Vista? Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of experts at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time, March 5th for a live, interactive discussion on adopting Windows Vista into a desktop infrastructure. The panel will feature leading third-party
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