I’ve been playing online poker at Party Poker for the last couple of months but I hadn’t been playing for real money up until tonight when I made my first $50 deposit.
On the play-money tables, you can win a lot and it’s not always that much fun because players will bet stupidly, not caring about [...]
23 October 2006
Online Poker Addiction Starts
21 October 2006
Download details: Forest Recovery
Another juicy bit of documentation for the AD geeks out there. This is an updated version of Microsoft’s best-practice documentation for recovering your Active Directory forest.
Brief Description
This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers in the forest incapable of functioning normally.
On [...]
ADFS Documentation Blog
This is more of a bookmark for me rather than a blog post, but there may be others out there interested in this MSDN blog focusing on (much-needed) ADFS documentation.
Link to ADFS Documentation Blog
20 October 2006
Internet Explorer 7 "mhtml:" Redirection Information Disclosure – Advisories – Secunia
Less than a day old and there is already a critical security alert for Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7. This vulnerability only affects IE7, so I guess it’s not recommended to upgrade just yet.
This is a big blow for Microsoft as they have been touting this as their most secure browser ever. Let’s hope they [...]
18 October 2006
Project Blackbox from Sun
Sun are breaking all the rules once again with a datacenter in a box product. Dubbed Project Blackbox, this is essentially as many servers, networking and storage devices as possible all crammed into a shipping container. Using revolutionary cooling systems this thing is guarranteed to stay cool in any situation. You could even consider it ‘portable’ [...]
¶17 October 2006
FeedRaider provides custom aggregator
Here’s a nifty site that may or may not be useful to you. FeedRaider lets you set up your own pages with feeds that you choose displayed in a variety of formats. Not too sure what market this is aiming for as you can already do this with Netvibes and the other home-page providers. But [...]
¶14 October 2006
Updated Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta review
Updated review on the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta email/feeds/news/contacts/calendar client with new screenshots. This is an overhaul of the antiquated Outlook Express client and is targeted towards MSN/Live/Spaces users mainly.read more | digg story
¶13 October 2006
Red iPod nano now available
The red, iPod nano that everyone has been talking about is now available from the US Apple website. This was launched by Bono and Oprah Winfrey and $10 from each sale goes towards the fight against AIDS in Africa.
I really like the colour of this, and if I was in the market for a nano [...]
12 October 2006
Virtual PC 2007 Beta debuts, disappoints
Microsoft today released Virtual PC 2007 to beta testers via the Connect website and I must say I am quite underwhelmed. We were expecting some form of multiple snapshots and a better management console, but neither are to be seen in this release.read more | digg story
¶10 October 2006
Internet Explorer 7 almost here – are you ready?
Internet Explorer 7 is just about at RTM and will be delivered to all Windows users as a high-priority, automatic update this month. What does this mean to you? Well, whether you like it or not, shortly you too will be running IE7 if you aren’t already.read more | digg story
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