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Monday, May 12, 2008 12:03 AM

Geeks rule – Don’t mess with my Mac

Score one for the good guys.  Or in this case, good girlz.  An alert Macbook owner noticed her ID was logged in and she managed to remotely control her stolen Mac and take pictures of the thieves.  Busted!!! Full story at http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805090392
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:57 AM

A real world Linux experiment?

There's a pretty interesting blog post at http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/ .  I have not read through all of the comments yet (510 and counting).  After a brief scan of the main article,
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Friday, May 02, 2008 10:17 PM

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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Friday, April 18, 2008 11:00 AM

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.
Posted by Keith Combs | 5 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 8:45 AM

Who's the fastest OS in the land? WinXP vs Vista vs OS X

Last weeks "interesting" Gartner report on Windows reminded me I had some unfinished business. I've actually been waiting for Windows XP SP3 to release before I ran some tests, but I decided to go ahead and have some fun today while watching the Masters.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:27 PM

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
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Friday, January 25, 2008 9:45 PM

Is Windows Vista secure?

How would you answer the question and prove or disprove the answer?  Pretty tricky, eh?  Jeff Jones , who is a Director in our Trustworthy Computing group recently released " Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report " and it appears
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