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Is Microsoft taking the PST ?

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Web and tagged PST on October 29, 2009 by HAL

A colleague alerted me to the announcement that Microsoft claim to be readying the release of information explaining how the PST mail file format works. Its strange that at a recent IBM workshop I had wondered if there would ever be a non Microsoft native email client to challenge Outlook – then lo and behold […]

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IBM and Teamsolutionz workshop on Notes and Domino 8.5

This entry was posted in Development Interesting Software Web on October 28, 2009 by HAL

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a workshop hosted by IBM Belfast and organised by Teamsolutionz. The focus of the workshop was the latest and I think greatest release of Notes todate – 8.5.1 and the new features of the product. For those that don’t know – Notes/Domino is an application development platform for […]

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WordPress bits

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips Web on October 26, 2009 by HAL

The developers have been working on hardening (securing) the current 2.8 tree of WordPress. The 2.8.5 release this week has a number of changes to this end. The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where php code […]

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Connecting a serial modem to a virtual machine running on ESXi

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Interesting Monitoring Web and tagged VMware Serial Modem on October 24, 2009 by HAL

Recently during a vmware migration project I had a requirement to present a fax modem to a quite elderly installation of Tobit Faxware running on Windows 2003. I had planned to investigate replacing the serial modem with a usb model and testing a USB Anywhere product from Digi. Then I remembered some work I had […]

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Scamware – Crapware – Dupeware

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips Web and tagged Scamware on October 20, 2009 by HAL

Call it what you will – the rise in this decidely annoying and pernicious class of software nuisance has reached mainstream media. For the last 18 months I and colleagues have come across a raft of these applications such as Antivirus 2009 that claim to be detecting viral payload on machines – when in fact […]

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Don’t stop yammering !

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips Web and tagged Yammer on October 13, 2009 by HAL

Introduced to this as part of a business arrangement  – Yammer is a private “twitterlike” service where you can sign up other members of your email domain and have private chats regarding matters of interest or importance. The Adobe AIR based windows client is probably the most common interface – after the web based vanilla […]

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Can’t wait – the anticipation is killing me – where is Notes 8.5.1

This entry was posted in Development Programming Software Web and tagged Domino Lotus Notes 8.5 on October 12, 2009 by HAL

Sounds odd but waiting for the latest release of the best kept software development secret is quite difficult. Despite some strangeness getting access to my downloads and having to get advice and direction from IBM’s Ecare team – I got to the point where I hoped I’d be download this – to give new functionality […]

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And finally .. WordPress moved

This entry was posted in Software Tips Web and tagged Wordpress Xampp on October 1, 2009 by HAL

After much fiddling – I made the move to a new server and transferred my Blog in the process. The process was relatively straightforward and using Xampp for the platform made the whole thing feel quite packaged and smooth. I can highly recommend Xampp on windows as it is just point and click with some […]

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