Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

2011-12-02

This is one of the best talks on cloud computing I have ever seen. If you work with cloud computing, are interested in cloud computing, fear cloud computing, or just want to know what cloud computing is, take 30 minutes and watch this. It is as informative as it is entertaining…Simon Wardley is an excellent presenter.

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Due Process? In my legal system?

2011-11-18

Hi retrohack readers, we interrupt our usual tech/geek/snark offering to make a statement that I feel needs to be made. I know this blog has global reach, but I hope those of you outside the US both forgive this politically aimed post, and also treat it as a heads up. Some countries do look to [...]

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howto://send from an alias in Office 365

2011-11-10

Want to use one of your SMTP aliases as your send from/reply to address with your Office 365 account? It’s not as easy as just clicking that “from” drop down, but this post will fix you up right.

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Serial Hacker Shows that Even iPhone Apps Aren’t Safe

2011-11-09

When the original iPhone was still a new product on the market, all programmers and computer scientists wanted to develop the latest, greatest iPhone app. A couple years later, as Android phones charged their way into the smartphone picture, attention turned to the relatively uncharted Android app frontier. IPhone apps were overdeveloped and had lost their luster, it was [...]

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Hosted, and service, and cloud, oh my!

2011-11-03

I’ve been a member of LinkedIn practically since the beginning, and have joined (and followed) several groups as a lurker, but today was the first time I actually engaged in a thread. A fellow member posted a question about just what makes a something that which can be offered “as a Service.” There were many [...]

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Trick or Treat!

2011-10-31

Happy Halloween Everyone!

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howto://improve your Exchange performance

2011-10-29

Generally speaking, the most important application running on most enterprise’s networks is email. While LOB applications may be needed to run the primary manufacturing line, or a CRM application is vital to the sales department, and the accounting system is crucial to, well, the accountants…everyone relies upon email. This mission critical application that is used [...]

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Who are you, and how do you prove it?

2011-10-26

Usernames and passwords are not enough to authenticate users in today’s threat-filled environment. Two factor authentication is something that needs to be on your radar now, for internal, external, and cloud-based applications.

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An open letter to Apple about iOS5, aka PoS5

2011-10-25

Love your Apple device and how well it performs? Then for the gods’ sake don’t upgrade to iOS5!!!

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howto://change UPN suffixes with PowerShell

2011-10-10

Need to change the UPN suffix on a bunch of users, and don’t want to do it by hand? Here’s a simple PowerShell script to do the heavy lifting for you.

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In review: Mastering Exchange Server 2010

2011-10-07

Jim McBee and David El Fassy deliver a decent coverage of Exchange 2010 in this Sybex book.

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The airline that does this will gain my loyalty for life.

2011-10-06

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal-http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2390#comic Of course that’s bs…if an active piece of electronics could cause a plane to crash, or even go off course, no flight could ever get off the ground, but still, it really pisses me off when that ONE GUY thinks he’s exempt from the rules, kinda like the bastards that [...]

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