Intro Windows 10 was officially released last week. In the wake of the release, concerns have surfaced about privacy and control issues which are enabled by default in all popular versions of the new Windows – including Enterprise edition. We’ll take a look at what reasonable steps you could (or […]
Proclamation of Doom
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There’s a post up on Labor leader Bill Shorten’s site addressing Labor’s position in regards to the draft mandatory metadata retention legislation and specifically to recommendations included in the Parliamentary Joint Committee report, released late Friday. Honestly, it’s not very encouraging. I really think Labor should be outright blocking the […]
This morning, I received an e-mail which the various spam/mail filters managed to miss. With only a passing glance, I recognised this as a phishing attempt, and nearly gave it no further thought. However, being on an iPhone, the “from” address field had been truncated (to appear as “AppleStore@apple.e…”: After […]
Editorial Update With the recent release of Visual Studio 2013 RC (which includes, by the way a “Go-Live” license) this issue with Visual Studio 2013 Preview has probably been overtaken by events. I’ll leave this here anyway as a historical footnote. How’s this? Tonight I fired up the VM I […]
On Tuesday, Australia’s Liberal and National parties (“the Coalition” – in opposition to the governing party) released their alternative policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN) which was created by the current majority party, the Labor government. Their plan is to deliver a broadband solution to the Australian public sooner, […]
http://delimiter.com.au/2010/06/11/govt-may-record-users-web-history-email-data/ Sorry, but this is a very important Proclamation of Doom, and thus had to be posted ASAP. The Australian Federal Government is apparently quite serious about a proposal to requires all Internet Service Providers to store precise data on what their subscribers are doing online. “The Federal Government has […]
Hello there, I’d like to take a moment of your time and ask you whether you think this site violates any of the following criteria (leave a comment, if you could please): Disallowed site behavior The landing page must be available and reliably respond even at peak use times. The […]
This document (linked below) arrived in my inbox today after I had emailed the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Stephen Conroy) with my concerns about this flawed and mandatory plan. Unfortunately, besides wasting my bandwidth all this document does is summarize the position held by Senator Conroy […]
Well, it’s been an unfortunate 24 hours for me, I managed to somehow cause my RAID-5 array to lose a member drive, and then the Intel Matrix software/RAID controller refused to rebuild or add a new drive to the disk set. So basically, I lost my 700GB RAID array, and […]
There’s been a lot of not-so-subtle mentions about news sites packing up the free content and starting some form of monetization scheme where they expect Internet users will cough up some dough. This does not please me terribly much. Assuming, for a second, that we don’t take into account the […]
Tonight my wife came home and asked me what I’d do with the money we were getting. At first I didn’t comprehend, these days we seem to pay money out at a great rate – we don’t usually get it given to us. Then she explained. I was speechless. This […]
Word from our friends in the United Kingdom – (1) an interview with Hugh Griffiths, Microsoft UK – as Microsoft launches it’s new MSN Mobile Music. You really have to appreciate the commentary that the (2) Slashdot folks have going on – it’s hilarious 
I’ve posted entries before decrying […]
I’ve posted entries before decrying […]In what probably was only a matter of time, hackers in the US and Europe have apparently found a way to hack a known weakness in the (1) MD5 algorithm (using a known (2) MD5 collision construction found a while ago) using 200 PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles and a few […]
Don’t you just hate it when your heart sinks and you read something like this: SQL Server Express and Hosting “Several questions have come up lately regarding whether SQL Server Express is an appropriate product to be used in a hosting environment. Here are the answers: User Instances (also known […]