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November 2006 - Posts

Monday, November 27, 2006 8:18 PM

LINUX enthusiasts host podcast about windows vista!

Note: There are some swear words in the podcast so please don't follow the link if you're likely to be offended. Thanks again to James and Andy from Stikkit Technology for inviting me to join their podcast to talk about security for Microsoft systems
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, November 24, 2006 10:15 PM

Join us for an entire day of Vista, Exchange and Office demos at the UK IT PRO Launch

12th December 2006. Thames Valley Park. Free. Limited places. A whole day of demos. Two servers with quad CPU and 8 Gb of RAM. Did I mention loads and loads of back to back demos? Be there or be still living in Windows XP and Office System 2003. Do it.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Friday, November 24, 2006 10:04 PM

Second Life's grey goo attack was the biggest in-game worm to date

Steve Horne wrote a thought provoking post about being locked out of Second Life due to the Grey Goo attack. Slashdot's post explained pretty clearly what happened as follows: "Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, November 13, 2006 4:33 PM

What is forefront client security and how will it protect my enterprise from malware?

Forefront Client Security is one of the expanding range of Microsoft Forefront Security products. It's aim is to provide enterprises with the means to centrally define and measure compliance to an anti-malware policy. Specifically Forefront Client Security
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Friday, November 10, 2006 5:16 PM

How to share printers between Windows and LINUX systems

For those of you who struggle to make your Microsoft Windows and LINUX systems "play nicely with each other" I can highly recommend reading a recent post on Microsoft's Open Source Lab blog which is named Port25. For those of you who struggle to make
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:05 AM

Windows vista has been released to manufacture at long last!

I'm delighted to be able to post the great news (for Windows fans at least!) that Windows Vista was released to manufacture just a few short hours ago! RTM for Windows Vista & 2007 Office System is a big deal as it means the code is now finalised
Posted by Steve Lamb | 7 Comments
Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:51 AM

The little apple logo will protect us all!

There's a little story on the ever entertaining Stupid Security blog that explains how the mere presence an Apple Mac logo is (or rather is not) enough to ward off all nasty malware. It made me smile. If only information was a simple as changing brands.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:12 PM

How to change the ringtone of your windows mobile device

Thanks to Mike Ormond for letting me know that the ringtones are stored in the following directory: My Device\Windows\Rings Bizarrely enough I can't "see" the \Windows directory from my PC when the mobile device is connected. Initially I used the "File
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:00 AM

How to make time for blogging

Thanks to Hugh for posting about PhilTube . In particular there's a great sketch depicting a guy trying to make time for blogging - now clearly it's a bit of fun but many people tell me that while they'd like to blog that they just don't have the time.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:12 AM

keeping youtube honest proves difficult

According to a post on SlashDot which itself cites an article from the Wall Street Journal YouTube's management team are finding it very difficult audit the site's content for valid copyright signoff. I don't envy them as the shear rate at which the community
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 11:34 PM

where can i find a technical description of how bitlocker works?

Mitch Tulloch posted a short article looking at both the business imperitive for securing corporate laptops and technical basis for doing so with Bitlocker on Windows Vista. Mitch's post includes links to some interesting sources of information including
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 11:15 PM

how to ensure that your applications are compatible with windows vista

The MSDN site includes a really handy Windows Vista Application Compatiblity Cookbook which can take the pain out of porting your applications to Vista. As many developers have already found, Windows Vista provides a wealth of enhanced security features
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 2:26 PM

what do you think of the zune promotional videos?

What fun - the Zune promotional videos have been posted on YouTube. Thanks to Robert for sharing this on his Zunespirational post . They're the lifestyle type of thing you'd expect though I have to say there's too little about Zune and too much about
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Friday, November 03, 2006 1:55 PM

will zune be released in the UK any time soon?

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that there's a great deal of momentum around the upcoming release of Zune in the USA. As you can read on the Agwire blog and News.com the North American release schedule is public. Earlier this week I heard that currently
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 1:21 AM

Free Enterprise Security briefing in posh london hotel - gartner are speaking

This is the follow up event from a really successful Enterprise Security summit held earlier in the year. Judging by the following blurb together with quality of the speakers I expect this to be another good event that should be well worth your time if
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 12:24 AM

Not sure what to do at the weekend? Try a random day out!

I noticed the randomdayout site on a PC in a meeting earier in the week. It's a fun way to get suggestions for something interesting to do for the day. It's useful for those of you in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. You simply pick from the options
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:56 PM

How to stop Instant messenge communications from embarassing you

There's a really handy feature in Windows Live Messenger as illustrated below that prevents instant message notifications from interrupting you while presenting. This feature should be useful any time you want to share the contents of your screen with
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:17 AM

Microsoft - change the world or go home!

Thanks to Hugh at GapingVoid for the following wonderful image: Hugh's cartoons make me smile and I can highly recommend browsing the GapingVoid website .
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:45 PM

microsoft softgrid application virtualisation will be included in Window's vista's desktop optimisation pack

James has published a post that gives a nice summary of the contents of the upcomming Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack . This pack will be available to software assurance customers using the Enterprise Edition of Windows Vista. I'm particularly excited
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
 
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