I’ve always been paranoid about backups, a file doesn’t exist unless it was in two places. And then there’s off-site backups which add a third place for important or expensive (time & money) files. Things like RAID and file duplication (in WHS) don’t count as two places. If a RAID or disk controller failed the [...]
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These are the patches I got after I followed Microsoft’s own instructions on How to obtain the latest Microsoft Word Viewer and installed two files - the Word 2003 viewer and the Office 2007 compatibility pack. On the plus side, it’s only 5 months worth of updates.
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Microsoft announced that they’re cutting Seinfeld out of their ads. Planned it all along. I didn’t say anything about the ads at the time but I thought they were unfairly disparaged at first. I kind of liked them, I chuckled a bit, and figured they were recreating Seinfeld’s sitcom about nothing in an attempt to [...]
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Apple has released OS X 10.5.5 today. Apple’s release notes were quite detailed this time. They also released a separate bulletin with the security related updates that are included.
I installed the update on my MacBook a little while ago without incident. It was a 136MB download through software update on my Intel MacBook. It’s also [...]
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The Team Fusion blog has an article about optimizing Vista on VMware Fusion 2. Since it’s from the VMware folks it’s titled as VMware specific, but it’s appropriate for any Vista virtual machine.
Suggestions include:
Disable System Restore
Disable Screen Saver
Optimize Power Management for Virtual Machine
Disable Windows Sidebar
Disable Remote Management
Run Windows Disk Defragmentation Utilities
OPTIONAL: Change to Classic UI
Disabling [...]
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It’s been a pretty dry couple of month for blog posts so far. But there’s still a few things worth mentioning and rather than a couple small posts I decided to put them all here to make them easier to ignore.
WordPress 2.6.2 was released and I upgraded this site. It’s a security release so considered [...]
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