An Open Desktop on the Cheap

So you have this old computer system hanging around and you’re not quite sure what to do with it. Maybe you’re a small company and you think disposing of it might be a waste yet the idea of paying an extraordinary amount of money in new software licensing isn’t appealing. Perhaps you’re an individual and [...]

The Vista SP1 Disaster Recovery Guide

Just as a follow-up to my last thoughts on Windows Wackiness, InformationWeek has published an SP1 Disaster Recovery Guide for Windows Vista. I thought it’d be useful to share to my technical audience who’ll be installing SP1 this quarter. Coincidentally, building off the problems with Vista and Yahoo!, Techcrunch ran an article this week on [...]

Data Breach Reporting

An interesting site that was brought to my attention from a student this week: a Chronology of Data Breaches produced by the Privacy Rights Clearing House. R

The Wild and Wacky World of Windows

Q2 2008 is shaping up as an interesting quarter for Microsoft Partners as Microsoft releases a slew of service packs and critical system updates. Windows Vista SP1 was finally released for Windows Ultimate and Windows Business a couple of weeks ago. I wrote about the improvements and features found in Service Pack 1 in March. [...]