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MacMinute: Apple objects to proposed Microsoft settlement
Stupid, stupid, stupid… I really hope the courts penalize Microsoft with something like $1.1 Billion in cash fines and that’s it…

I got a new Dell Latitude 610 yesterday. It’s running Windows XP (which I’m finding I actually like using compared to all the other Windows variants I’ve used in the past.) I like Windows 2000, but hate all the other Windows environments I’ve ever used. None were ever nearly as elegant as [...]

For years, I’ve used a MS Intellimouse Exlporer on a Macintosh, including OS 9 and OS X. The intellimouse has 5 buttons and the default buttons for the 4th and 5th button (the two on the side) are ‘forward’ and ‘backward’ actions that are pretty useless on a Macintosh (they work, just not nicely) [...]

I’m a firm believer in Outlook as a group scheduling and contact management tool. It also happens to be a decent email client. But, I can tell you this… if there is no Exchange Server in the equation, then it’s really just an email client.
I work at a company where there [...]

Everyone knows that Apple has adopted BlueTooth as the wireless answer to USB. They’ve embraced it and have put a lot of marketing dollars behind it. I’m happy about this, but still have yet to think about how it might affect me, although having my printer on bluetooth and my scanner on it [...]

Only O’Reilly can publish an article like Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs and do it well.
Perfect… just what I need to figure out how to get my email.pst file off my office PC and onto my office Macintosh, so that I can transfer it to my iPod, which’ll then let me [...]

This article at the Register give me just one more reason to stay away from Windows.
Win-XP Help Center request wipes your HD
A malicious Win-XP Help Center request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine, we’ve learned. Worse, MS has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a [...]

I’ve been pretty quiet on the whole Tablet PC thing, mainly because I’m biased and will admit that, but I’ve been following it loosely. I’d like to point everyone to Dan Bricklin on Tablet PC: First Impressions as I (and many others I’m sure) consider Dan an authority and his thoughts are golden:
Back in [...]

It must really suck to be a Systems Admin for a Windows based company. I mean really suck.
My company employs around 100 people. We probably have 110 - 150 total desktop systems installed throughout the building, plus a dedicated server room with anywhere from 10 - 25 servers. All of the machines [...]

I just read about a new Pocket PC coming out from Intermec on Gizmodo.
Ever get so frustrated with your gadgets that you wish you could just throw them against the wall? Maybe you need the Intermec 700 Color Pocket PC. It’s designed for use in the field, can “withstand multiple 5-ft. drops to concrete,” and [...]

I talked to my techs today about our ad server platform, and believe it or not, they actually have plans to move it over to a Linux based solution (same software, new OS) sometime in the next 6 months or so…
Which translates to “We hope to have it moved over in 6 months, but realistically, [...]

Today was a rough day.
I got up late, checked email, answered a few personal emails that had to be answered, and headed to work. I arrived about 20 minutes late, but my boss was out of the office all day, so while I was late, there will be no reprocussions…
I’m the guy responsible for [...]

I loaded this website up today in IE 6 on my Win2K box at work (for the first time), and guess what? It doesn’t display over half of the site… I have no idea why this happens, but its pretty annoying to know that this might have been happening since the day I launched. [...]

HOW TO: Quickly Lock Your Desktop by Clicking a Shortcut on the Taskbar in Windows XP
Summary
You can create a shortcut on your taskbar that immediately locks your computer. When you click this shortcut, it is the same as pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE, and then clicking Lock Computer.
Create a Shortcut on the Taskbar
1. Right-click the [...]

(Doesn’t that title sound pornographic? It might be construed as such in some circles.)
ZDNet’s commentary on the latest offering from Microsoft is pretty good.
“It comes as no surprise that Microsoft jumped on the 802.11b bandwagon. With the company’s Xbox push into online gaming, the addition of home entertainment functionality into Windows XP, and upcoming [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I read a post on Joel’s weblog from January about Knowledge Management and a software product called Six Degrees, that was coming out from Creo (made up of the guys that were the real brains behind Quark back in the day).
I was intrigued. Here promised to be a product [...]

Amazon is Big Brother, posted over on the Amazon Weblog shows us all one more reason to not use Windows. The fact that they’re installing Alexa things by default (which was under serious attack by privacy organizations since they launched) without telling anyone anything is typical of the Windows mentality. Netscape 4.x embedded [...]

I finally downloaded and installed NetNewsWire Lite on my laptop. Prior to today, I was only using it at work, as I haven’t had a full day at home to need it, but I do today. I’d like to note some recommendations for Brent, the author, that I’ll be emailing him, so I [...]

Scary: Hack into Windows XP/2000/NT anytime you want.