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Vermyndax on September 20th, 2011

I have to admit… Google+’s new features make this a really compelling place to hang out for social features. I like the technical approach more and more, but it’s too bad that it’s hard to get people on to it. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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After a tremendous ordeal of trying to install OS X Lion on my January 2008 Mac Pro, I finally had a breakthrough. I discovered what appears to be a hardware incompatibility. To properly tell this story we’ll have to go back in time. In January of 2008 when this model of Mac Pro was available [...]

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Vermyndax on July 7th, 2011

Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 It looks like Exchange 2007 SP3 RU4 has a lot of goodies in it. At least 5 of the items in this list are impacting the environment at my day job. While it’s good to see progress, I’m always wary of these updates [...]

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Vermyndax on June 20th, 2011

It’s brutally important that you understand this article if you support Exchange 2007 or 2010. Read it. Now. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2563324 Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on June 17th, 2011

Since today appears to be National Pile on RIM Day, I thought I would add a little fuel to the fire. I see a lot of people talking about the Playbook, the devices and the terrible mobile device experience that RIM has brought to table in contrast to the sleek, new offerings from the competition. [...]

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Vermyndax on May 22nd, 2011

This is a crosspost from The Cat Convention. If you’re not familiar with Dropbox by now, you should be. Dropbox is what MobileMe‘s iDisk aspires to be one day. For now, it isn’t. For the uninitiated, Dropbox is a fantastic cross-platform bit of code that synchronizes files across all of your computers. It also provides [...]

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Vermyndax on May 17th, 2011

Have you heard of Yammer? If not, you will. You will likely hear about Yammer after your corporation or business signs a deal with them. Your users will start to flock toward the service and sign up. Lo and behold you will discover that they will be offered a piece of software to install. During [...]

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Vermyndax on March 28th, 2011

Guess who didn’t get a ticket? There’s absolutely no way I will ever be able to purchase a ticket through my corporation if the windows is down to the hour. No way. I was going to be lucky to pull a purchase within 48 hours. Apple needs to expand this conference and offer paid developer [...]

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Vermyndax on January 2nd, 2011

On a Windows machine, the Steam application allows you to relocate the “SteamApps” folder to a different drive. This allows you to effectively shift your content around anywhere you like. When you install a new game, it’ll even ask you where you want to install it. For some bizarre reason they did not afford the [...]

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For some bizarre reason, the thought at the top of my head last night at bedtime was… “I wonder if sometimes… open source developers deliberately code bugs or withhold fixes for financial gain?” If you don’t follow what I mean, here’s where I was: often times, large corporations or benefactors will offer a code fix [...]

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