Monthly Archives: April 2007

Bluehost Updates It Hosting Plan

Bluehost updated it’s hosting plan recently and now offers “more” for the same price. They now offer 300GB of disk space, 3,000GB of bandwidth and will now host unlimited domains.
Those are all nice numbers and I like Bluehost so far, but at what point do these numbers become so large they’re meaningless? While I’m sure [...]

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Bits and Pieces

Another week has gone by. It being tax time and all (yea I waited) I didn’t have time to put together any additional articles but I do have a bunch of little things I’ve either started or have noticed around the web. Rather than a lot of small posts, or ignoring them completely, I decided [...]

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Macworld: Apple Delays Leopard Until October

http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/12/leoparddelay/index.php
Macword has a short article stating that Apple announced that they’re delaying Leopard until October. Apple attributes the delay to needing to divert key OS X resources to work on the iPhone. They say they’ll show developers a “near final” version at WWDC in June and let them take home a beta copy to do [...]

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Mac Mozy and Spotlight Update

In my previous post I mentioned that Mozy seemed to exclude directories that were excluded from spotlght indexing, even when those directories were specifically selected. I thought it might be a coincidence and maybe something else I did while researching the problem actually resolved the problem.
Well, I added the directory tree bsck into the privacy [...]

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Apple Security Update For Airport Extreme

Apple released a firmware update for their Airport Extreme Base Station with 802.11n. The Apple bulletin recommends that Airport Base Station update 2007-001 as it includes an update to the Airport Utility.

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It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft released four security patches that they rated critical. They are…
MS07-018 is for Content Management server and doesn’t affect it’s desktop OS’s.
MS07-019 is for a vulnerability in Universal Plug and Play. It only affects Windows XP SP2 and the 64-bit version of Windows XP. Note that MS doesn’t support WinXP SP1 and the fact that [...]

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