Yo Dawg, I heard you like operating systems and databases
Submitted by Damien on
Submitted by Damien on
Submitted by Damien on
Microsoft's latest ads, that attempts to Apple's "I'm a PC" persona in a different light, are not without their irony. I turns out that the ads were actually compiled on a Mac. Go figure.
Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.
Submitted by Damien on
I've always found that Exchange's webmail system, aka "Outlook Web Access", to be extremely buggy regarding remembering who you are. It sets sessions cookies with a pretty far-away timeout but regardless of whether I'm connected via a VPN or from the public internet it always delights in logging me out as quickly as it can. Well, I've worked out a work-around for these all too frequent occurrences. Here's what you do:
Hopefully this will help some others who are also loosing their hair over this stupidity.
Submitted by Damien on
Good news today via /. as a research team have discovered fundamental flaws in Windows Vista that make its "security" system completely useless and unable to be fixed to stop the flaw. In other words, WIndows Vista is broken and cannot be fixed. Yay :-)
Time for my D&D half-orc persona's ceremony of choice.
Submitted by Damien on
An unbelievable story item today - Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $44 billionMicrosoft wants to buy Yahoo for $44 billion. Yowzers. If that isn't the fifth sign of the apocalypse then I don't know what is.