Monthly Archives: August 2007

Google Apps for My Domain - Part 1

I’ve completed my move to Google Apps and now all my mail goes into my inbox there, one way or the the other. In Part 1 I’ll cover the domain setup and IMAP mail migration using the migration tool, while in part 2 I’ll cover the features that are available to all GMail users.
My reasons [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #3

Upgrades - Patches - Please Stop the Madness
It seems like all I did this past week was patch and upgrade. I already mentioned the iWeb ‘08 update.
Microsoft released 9 security updates so it took awhile to patch my VMs.
Apple also updated Boot Camp to version 1.4 and I got around to updating it this week.
VMWare [...]

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Boot Camp 1.4

I’ve been running Boot Camp on my MacBook since getting it. Even though I haven’t used it for anything to speak of Apple came out with an upgrade and I had to apply it.
The update was easy, although a bit time consuming, mainly because of the need to burn a CD and a couple of [...]

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Microsoft Security Updates

Microsoft released nine security updates this past Tuesday.
When it came time to run Automatic Update on my Windows XP SP2 virtual machine (running under Parallels) I got 12 updates, so Microsoft pushed more than the security updates. The updates broke down as follows (all links are to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article number listed):

Security Update [...]

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Apple Updates iWeb ‘08

Apple released an update to the still fresh iWeb ‘08. It updates iWeb to version 2.0.1. In typical terse Apple fashion they describe the update as: “These update addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites.”
I did have a problem after I upgraded iWeb but no idea if this fixes it. I upgraded iWeb [...]

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Big Waste of Time and Energy Launched

[Update: This site is no longer available.]
I finally opened up my new Wordpress blog - Big Waste of Time and Energy (BWOTAE.com).
I’ve been posting to it for a couple of weeks to see what it would turn into and to see if I’d keep posting to it. I really didn’t pick the name as a [...]

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