I ran across this last week while helping a bank determine what Windows patch broke one of their internal applications. This meant I was manually installing different patches one by one (Including SP2 for XP) - and looking for them on Google. In one of my searches I came across this search result:
Now looking at the highlighted result...can you see anything wrong with it? No, I can't either.
Now look at the page you get to when clicking on the link:
Now obviously I do not need SP2 for IE 5.5. Still...this is is bad. Why? Looks like a MS page right?
Look at the URL at the top of the browser:
Ugg. After some more poking around it looks like thesource.ofallevil.com has an exact mirror of the MS website. I have not tested any of the executables for viruses, or spyware - but for some reason I don't think they have good intentions in mind for you or your network.
I have stopped searching for MS patches on Google, and started looking for them directly on the MS website. I suggest you do the same.
Written by Steve Wiseman on October 2nd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Big day for us at Joost — today Joost is drawing back the curtain and steppin' out.
Haven't been able to score an invite? Now it doesn't matter! Everyone can enjoy a ballooning selection of comedy, music videos, documentaries, movies and the latest hits from some of your favorite media brands, including CBS, Major League Baseball, MTV, Turner, Comedy Central and more — over 15,000 shows to date. So if you're one of the mere 6.5 billion who have not received a Joost invite, prepare to be entertained. Really nice to meet you.
For us at Joost, we are exhausted, but excited. Many of us have put as much as two years of our lives into this little "project," and owe a great deal to our families for supporting us, to our friends for not ignoring us, and to all the beta testers who cheered us on and helped with ideas, feedback and lots of bug reporting. This release is for you.Joost is still Beta software — there's a lot more work to be done before we're satisfied, and yes, you may find a bug or two. Please, please let us know if you do — we are grateful to all those who have and continue to let us know when they find problems.What's next? Well, for me, since I missed CBS's new fall hit, Kid Nation, I plan to catch it on Joost tonight. While I'm at it, I plan to flip through some of the Aardman claymations (laugh-out-loud funny) and then just let the Chili Pepper channel I created run in the corner of my screen while I do some work for tomorrow. Can't wait.News Source: www.joost.com
Written by Odd-Magne Kristoffersen on October 2nd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Looking at the Exchange 2007 Product Guide (available for download by clicking here), or by looking at the overview at the Microsoft WebSite for the Exchange Server 2007 Editions and Client Access Licenses, you will see that one of the major changes compared to the differences between standard and enterprise versions in previous versions of Exchange, is the database size limit.In Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, and Exchange 2003 up until sp1 the standard edition had a database size limit of 16 GB. With the release of Exchange 2003 Sp2, Microsoft increased the database size limit to 75GB! The database size limit for the enterprise edition has always been unlimited (or limited by hardware...)Here's the table taken from the Microsoft Site detailing the differences between Standard and Enterprise Edition for Exchange 2007:
According to this table, the database size limit is unlimited for the standard edition. It was a great surprise for me to notice the following event log entry after installing a 64bit standard version of Exchange 2007:
What's going on?
The Exchange Server 2007 Standard Edition has apparantly a hard coded licensing database size limit of 50 GB, and for Service Pack 1 this is set to 250 GB...Can this be changed?Yes :-) the database size limit of 50 GB can be increased by creating the Database Size Limit in Gb registry value. How do you do this?The following two pictures show you the entry you have to do in the registry to change this, and the third one shows you the result after dismounting and mounting the store again.
What's the source for this registry key?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997432.aspx
Whats new in SP1?In Exchange 2007 Sp1 (beta at least) the default limit has been increased to 150GB.
News Source: www.proexchange.be
Written by Odd-Magne Kristoffersen on October 2nd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can read your Active Directory structure through Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO). The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool automates Microft Office Visio to draw a diagram of the Active Directory Domain topology, your Active Directory Site topology, your OU structure or your current Exchange 200X Server Organization. With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can also draw partial Information from your Active Directory, like only one Domain or one site. The objects are linked together, and arranged in a reasonable layout that you can later interactively work withthe objects in Microsoft Office Visio.Download here
Written by Odd-Magne Kristoffersen on October 2nd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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It has been quite sometimes I noticed this but I can't be sure. Here is the website
www-openoffice.com. Initialy I thought this is fake or scam website that's until I read some posting in the
official OpenOffice website comments the following:
This is a company which begins with OpenOffice.org (OOo) and adds additional programs to it. This is legal under the OOo license (LGPL).
Having said so, even though the company is legal, the website doesn't address why I want to buy this product as I can
download it free from the OOo and it charges me $47 (offer price). It looks to me like they have an intention to hide the fact that we can download the OpenOffice software for free from OpenOffice.org. I wonder what amazing extra program causes worth $47. The free version has already fulfill all my needs. Bonus anti-virus program? I can get it free from
AVG and AVAST. Hmm....
How many of users out there really buy this product? How many of them really find it useful for the additional programs? Is $47 really worth? Do these users aware of they can also download it free from OOo?
Written by ChampDog on October 2nd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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