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Another Microsoft Security Hole ?

Received this in today. Makes grim reading. National Cyber Awareness System              Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-174A Microsoft XML Core Services Attack Activity Original release date: June 22, 2012 Last revised: — Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 are affected.   Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office […]


Mouse borders any one ?

Mouse without Borders is a prototype that makes you the captain of your computer fleet by allowing you to control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard. This means that with Mouse without Borders you can copy text or drag and drop files across computers. Mouse Without Borders is a Microsoft Garage […]


I take it back – twice as quick

After a recent painful outage on a Virgin Media cable connection I was pleasantly surprised to get an email saying that they had completed upgrade preparations and that the current 50MB speed was being updated to 100 mb effective immediately. I was glad to see that they had dropped the nonsense idea of looking to […]


A year with WordPress

This year has been an experiment for me – in the use of WordPress – to create an article on a daily basis each working day. It has shown me that its a difficult task – due to many factors such as being busy with business and being able to separate out interesting topics from […]


Two outages – one day

Today I was investigation some issues regarding non resolution of a domain. It had started intermittently yesterday but became more prominent when  I was off site. Checking I found the name servers in question for the domain were DNS2Go’s – a supplier I have used many times to deal with dynamic dns addresses in projects. […]