TheMiddaySun: April 2007

Monday, April 16, 2007

Funny I find this article!

I just finished setting up MediWiki at my office for us to use as a knowledge base.  I work in desktop support and we are always calling each other to "remember" how to do something.  For example, I have printed out instructions on how to remove and re-install TCP-IP in Windows XP.  I for the life of me cannot remember the registry area that I delete the Winsock and winsock2.  Now, instead of calling a coworker to read it off for me, I can go to another workstation and print a copy to use.

Anyway, enough of me babbling.  Article here.

U think they would charge the owner the bus fare?

Article here.

Friday, April 13, 2007

I really like this site....

You may find me linking to this site from time to time, but I suggest you just bookmark it and read it as your daily bread!  Lifehacker

As I said earlier about XP SP3 and XP being fazed out - well read this and then u decide.

Article here.

Vista boot times and shudown times are not what MS claimed they would be!!!! OMG!

This doesn't surprise me.  Microsoft is touting the blended Hibernate/sleep for shutting down a system.  I have yet to get that to work on my machine here at the office.  Not that I shut down often, as I don't, but I have tried to accomplish this on several occasions.

Anyway, article here.

Always booted - TMS

XP to go away faster than we probably want.....

I have read a few articles about sources close to Microsoft stating that the MS giant is going to phase out Windows XP before SP3 even makes it out the door, therefore SP3 will not be available.  I don't place too much stock in this as Microsoft has to answer to corporate demand, and from what I can tell corporations are not breaking the door down to get Vista.  I know we aren't.  I don't even have Vista on my machine at home.  Yet.  :-)

More info available here.

Happily computing - TMS

Friday, April 06, 2007

Google is helping my little state!!

We have been hearing rumors for months, but this is the first time I have actually seen a real article about it.  Google is going to build a data center in my home state of SC.  WooHoo!

read more here.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

I find that this may be true for a consumer based market, but not for the corporate world

My company will probably not adopt Vista until 08.  There are many reasons for this.  A new OS is still unproven, waiting for a while to adopt, the OS will have gone through many patches and updates.  When we do adopt, we will be implementing a more secure and more robust OS.  We also need time to build our products to work with the new OS.  There are many changes in Vista that affect a variety of programming languages and implementations.

With all that being said, I personally don't see the rush to get Vista on my desktop at home.  I have found that Nvidia drivers are still, to this day, not the greatest.  For me that is crucial, as I game on my home machine more than anything else.

Anyway, read more about the demand for Vista here.

Wireless Encryption broken!!!!

Anyone that has setup their home based network using WEP as their wireless encryption might want to reconsider this and change it over to TKIP or WEP2.

Read more here.

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