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Sun, Mar 25 2012 20:29

iCan’t sync with iTunes; iCan’t sync without iTunes…

OK, so that’s a horrible stretching of a song to cover a point, but it’s kind of the way I feel right now – torn between a rock and a hard place. Some time ago now, I let you readers know that I’d won an iPad at the Black Hat security conference, and...
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Tue, Aug 17 2010 21:48

Why, that’s very nearly delightful!

As a big fan of The IT Crowd , I’m a happy reader of the author, Graham Linehan,’s blog, “ Why That’s Delightful! ”. It certainly helps to explain to American viewers tonight’s episode . And yes, I did try and persuade Microsoft to give Moss an MVP award...
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Thu, Feb 18 2010 18:09

Bad Names: Windows Phone Mobile Compact Edition Seven Series Pocket PC

OK, admittedly, the name isn’t really that long, but even though I’m spending this week on Microsoft’s home turf , I can’t say that I’ve met two people who can trip off their tongue the proper name of the new version of Windows Mobile: Windows Phone Seven...
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Tue, Jan 20 2009 16:50

“Fully Stealthed” means fully spoofable

Every so often, someone on one of the security mailing lists to which I subscribe will post a frothing rant from someone who has discovered their own personal “magic bullet” which solves all their security woes. This time, it’s a guy who was convinced...
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Tue, Oct 14 2008 10:41

Windows 7 officially has a name

So, what’s the scoop? It’s going to be called “ Windows 7 ”, according to Mike Nash posting at the Windows Vista Blog . [Is it just me, or does Mike Nash look a little like the chef who got into trouble for inflating his resume in the opening credits...
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Fri, Oct 27 2006 14:17

Linux - unbreakable until when?

Man, if I were dumb enough to claim anything as "unbreakable", I'd probably want to claim that you have a little bit more than two months of unbreakability (and yes, that is an unretouched graphic from Oracle's site ). Cousin Jeff notes...
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Sun, Aug 6 2006 8:07

Internet Explorer 7 will be called ... Internet Explorer 7.

Thank goodness Microsoft saw sense . I can't imagine how many people would have asked me " where do I download the Plus pack for IE7 ?" For once, this is a tale about a name I would have chosen.
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Mon, Jun 26 2006 8:39

BluRay - a bad name for high-definition?

My attention was drawn to a graphic this morning that seemed to read "BLURRY" Turns out, it's just a slightly out-of-focus and small picture of a logo for "Blu-Ray", one of two competing standards for high definition DVDs. Seems like a bad idea to make...
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Fri, Mar 10 2006 15:37

Vista Bitlocker

A while back, I said that my dream job at Microsoft would be to refuse dumb product names. "WindowsCE?" I would say, "You do realise everyone will call that 'WinCE', which is something you do when you're in pain, yes?" ".NET Server? What does the OS have...
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