JT on May 1st, 2009

The college recently purchased a new Sophos Email Security appliance model. It was very easy to setup and I’m looking forward to having PureMessage filtering our spam and crapmail attacks, it’ll be a good thing. The Active Directory integration is not a polished as their Web Security appliances’ are. We have two WS1000 appliances, also [...]

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JT on January 18th, 2009

After using Vista for the last few months, I was eager to test the new Windows 7 beta. It was released on Friday, but with typical Microsoft distribution – their servers were overloaded. I was able to obtain a copy from the MSDN distribution site on Sunday. I wanted to leave myself with a comfortable [...]

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JT on May 23rd, 2008

A few hardcore geeks have solved the latest problem holding back their community – how to beat some of these insane Guitar Hero songs on expert or Dragon Force’s Through the Fire and Flames on any difficulty. Well a few ideas are looking promising. Kevin Herron developed Tom Hannu, a Guitar Hero bot and a [...]

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JT on July 24th, 2007

I signed up for this free service a few days before Google bought them… Grandcentral.com gives you a local number… for life. It acts as a “front end” for your other phones. So even though your cellphone or work number changes, people can still reach you at your GC number. So far, it’s saved me [...]

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JT on March 20th, 2007

I received a Dacal CD Library as a Christmas present a few years ago. I was really excited to be able to finally clear off the three spindles of CDs and DVDs that had collected on my desk. Until… I installed the software… and experienced what had to be the worst experience I’ve had with [...]

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