Today I have been to geek heaven… and it’s full of stars!! Where exactly is geek heaven? Here: Playing Pac Man In a Safari web browser Which is on the www.google.com home page Running on a Mac Which is a virtual machine Running on VMware Running inside Windows 7 64-bit Folks, Geekdom does NOT get [...]

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The new book “Windows Home Server Unleashed (2nd Edition)” by author Paul McFedries is in stores now. This is the third book I’ve worked on for SAMS Publishing, this time as a Technical Editor instead of a co-author.  The “Unleashed” series of books strives to provide unparalleled technical depth and accuracy, and this book is [...]

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More iTunes weirdness today: Sure, I’ve got a lot of songs but, Wow! It stuck like that until I restarted iTunes. Rating 3.00 out of 5

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An iTunes update this morning finished by prompting me to install the Safari (Mac web browser) 3.1.2 update on my Vista Ultimate laptop. I scratched my head a bit because, A) I don’t have Safari installed on this machine, and B) the pop-up window had a glitch: Apparently the Safari-on-Windows carpet bomb bug announced May [...]

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If you have Mac users who are using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta 2), here’s a heads-up that it’s set to expire on March 31, 2008.  This came as a bit of a shock to me since I don’t see any news about a replacement final version or Beta 3.  [...]

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I read a LOT of blogs. And by a lot, I confess that it sometimes creeps up to triple digits (in feeds, not just posts). So, since this is the first Saturday of the year, I’m doing the annual pruning the dead wood from the RSS reader. Who gets the axe? The stale, the blog [...]

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From the Help Desk file… Reported issue: Client can’t open an email attachment. Attachment name: MessedUp.xls (file name changed for jocularity) Details: When you try to open the attachment, Excel pops up the error message: "The file you are trying to open, ‘MessedUp.xls’, is in a different format than specified by the extension.  Verify that [...]

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Yes, you’re on the right blog. Don’t freak. Not too long ago, a customer with a shiny new iPhone called and wanted to get it hooked up to their Small Business Server 2003 server.  No biggie, right?  Well, POP3 is one thing, but little did I know then that IMAP on SBS with an iPhone [...]

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According to the latest Apple security update (2007-005), Macs need patches just like any other personal computer.  And these aren’t soft and fuzzy patches for iPods.  This security update corrects 17 vulnerabilities affecting software packages that ship as part of OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.9. Some of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute any code they [...]

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Back in January at the EVO Launch in Louisville I met a ton of new people.  One of them was Erik Eckel from Computer Troubleshooters (super-nice guy!)  Erik recently had an article published on TechRepublic (April 6, 2007) that I’d like to share with everyone who works in smaller Windows networks that include Macs. This article [...]

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