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Outlook 2010 is p r e t t y .  Of course aesthetics alone is rarely reason-enough to upgrade, (unless you use the Lotus Notes client).  Fortunately or unfortunately at work, my team tends to stay on the cutting edge, testing computer configurations before handing them over to our customers, including our developers.  We eat our own dog food, in a sense. One absolutely horrible, annoying, useless, idiotic, empty-headed-fool, middle-management-moron-inspired "feature" which should be ripped out and stuffed violently up said manager's, uh, nose , is this ridiculous  uncommanded activity which occurs just by hovering your mouse over a name . E.g., start a new mail message Populate the To: field with one or more of your contacts Let your mouse and mind wander. Hover over a contacts name and sweet baby jebus isn't Outlook wonderful! An uncommanded action occurs a new mail message appears WTF?!1 Try it.  Hover your mouse over a name in the To: f...

Four Score years ago , I stopped writing on this blog, opting instead to capture useful links on Delicious.  Now my beloved delicious finds itself on the chopping block.  One can only hope our new G-D, Google, won't dump it's social bookmarking me-too-beta-feature-etc. From Slashdot : "A leaked internal presentation from Yahoo shows that Delicious, the popular bookmark sharing site, will be wound down . According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber the whole team was let go just yesterday. It appears that Delicious is just one of the services in Yahoo's portfolio that is going the way of the Dodo."

Is anyone-- ANYONE --even remotely surprised by this? from Slashdot :  " "Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google , the sites they select from Google's results, then uses that information to improve Bing's own search listings. Bing doesn't deny this." " Of course Redmond is cheating !  They either buy the No. 2 or No.3 competitor ( Connectix Virtual PC ), take steps to crush the competition, (Citrix Win/MetaFrame), or "borrow" (read: steal) code outright.  This is what they do best.  They face an uphill battle against Google.  Hence Facebook . TechCrunch has the Twitter-slinging play-by-play.

Finally!   I'm the one who gets angry every semester when I can't find the electronic edition of a textbook. from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network: " Georgia state legislators and educators are considering a proposal by Apple to move from printed textbooks to iPads, according to a report ..."

Can any good come of this? Famous for kinda-reliable and somewhat-stable servers, Dell, (king of loading your new PC with bloatware [jackasses]), will now be screwing up *cough* value-adding your vSphere (or whatever the hell we call the virtual center) management server. Run, Forest, Run! From The Register : Dell did a lot of work last year to make its PowerEdge servers, their service processors, and its OpenManage system administration tools integrate with Microsoft's System Center tools for managing Windows and software higher up the stack. Today Dell is hooking its servers and tools into the vCenter console from server virtualization powerhouse VMware to let system admins work a little easier.…

Shameless self-promotion of an article I submitted: From Attrition.org : Got spam? Run a mail server? Like saving time & money? Imagine a well-designed, FOSS-based anti-spam solution. Imagine one that meets or exceeds the service of either a hosted solution, or a rack mountable appliance with a slick paint job. Imagine the money you would save if you didn't need your current commercial anti-spam solution Stop imagining.

Is your Windows server sluggish because a zillion instances of HPBPRO are running? Thank our friends for HP for not putting this someplace Google has crawled yet. Anywho, this the fix a colleague forwarded to me... How to install HPBPROFIX Steps for installing HPBPROFIX and configuring it as Local COM at the Print Server is: Log on to Print Server as an administrator. Copy hpbprofix.exe on to the print server. 3. Run following command from the DOS window. C:> hpbprofix NOTE: If an old version of HPBPRO is locked by a process HPBPRO will pop a message box requesting a reboot to release the old version so that the new file will be copied after the reboot. Run HPBPROFIX again after the reboot. Steps to Roll Back HPBPRO configuration (for isolated cases where we want to undo what was done above): Log on to Print Server as an administrator. Copy hpbprofix.exe on to the print server. 3. Run following command from the DOS window. C:...