As I have an MSDN license, I am allowed access to Microsoft’s software for development reasons. I gave Office 2007 a demo run while it was in beta, and was running it inside a virtual server. The initial view on it was… “interesting“. The change of layout for most of the office [...]

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Apparently Microsoft hasn’t really considered the “user” when thinking of remote exploits. The Register has an article about another exploit that could allow a local user to elevate their privileges (Secunia have the original article). I cannot count the number of times I’ve had to handle a user issue where they opened an [...]

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I’ve been playing with RSS readers for a while. I used to use FeedReader, but kept wanting more. I found a few items difficult to get used to, like adding a custom tag to something I might want to go back and look at later.

Then I started playing with RSS Bandit. [...]

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Most people don’t understand how powerful listening can be. The best place is in business. Today I got a spoonful of “listening” from a web site I regularly read news on. Dark Reading send out daily news letters with security stuff on it. I noticed that one of their blogs (Firewalled), actually [...]

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I read recently in an article in InformationWeek that IT spending is balanced 80/20 towards maintenance over new projects. The Register has an article that goes over a survey showing that it’s not just the budget that goes that way. Most of IT managers time is spent making things work. This seems [...]

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This morning our CCC application that does call tracking for call groups started generating a weird error about it not having any licenses. The error was

No available license could be found at this time.

This was a little odd as it had worked before our office move, and I’m pretty sure somebody wouldn’t have figured [...]

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So this evening, I took it upon myself to construct dinner. Steph didn’t fancy the usual meal, so we popped to the store, and picked some stuff up. We ended up cooking Stuffed Chicken breast with greenbeans and rice. Chicken breast was stuffed with cream cheese, and a variety of herbs (that’s [...]

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Finally, it’s nearly all over. That is, we’ve moved mail systems, we’ve moved offices, and earlier today, we moved data centers. All but the mail migrations went incredibly smoothly, with only minor issues in all cases. I’m very happy, now I just need to figure out some time to get some rest. [...]

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From time to time, I end up going back, and retrying applications I originally thought were pretty nifty to see if new features have spawned, or items that I think are “missing” have finally appeared.So I’m back to trying “Live Writer” from Microsoft again.  I’ve found a couple of plugins for it that can do [...]

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What a week.  Most of this week has been dedicated to two things.  The data center move, and the office move.  Neither of which are fun tasks to say the least.  Especially not when AT&T are jerking your chain on installs for office connectivity, voice services, and other fun items.

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