Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 9 RC and it included a download manager. According to Microsoft:
Download Manager is integrated with the Windows download folder. It’s an easy way to interact with file downloads, which means you can sort, print, or send your downloads to another location, just as you would with other files. You can also use Download Manager to control your downloads, including everything from running or opening files to pausing or canceling downloads. You can even delete downloads from Download Manager.
Virtualization seems to be the buzzword these days and the software that makes its adoption painless for ordinary folks, in my opinion, is Oracle’s VirtualBox. It may not be “there” yet with VMWare, wherever “there” is, but for a basic testing lab, VBox does an awesome job.
The software is free – no one asks you to sign anything, fill out a long form, hand over your kids, or agree to some hidden EULA before you download. Go to the website, look for the version that matches your platform and download. If you are using a Linux Operating System, VirtualBox is most likely in the repository of your distro.
Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Window 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2011. At that time, knowing that we would will soon be getting calls to update computers, we decided to give SP1 a spin. We attempted to install SP1 on three computers so far without much luck. First, using automatic update did not work. The download always got stuck at 90 or 91 percent complete.
If you are like most people, you probably have one or two email accounts with Yahoo!, Windows Live and Google. I applaud these Internet powerhouses for giving us free email accounts, but does Yahoo! Mail need to make us go blind when reading our emails? I mean, talk about Flash and JavaScript overkill! The first thing I noticed when I logged in recently was this HUGE space taken up at the top by an ad banner after you sign in.
I recently got a desperate call from a friend I helped to set up a domain running Windows server 2008. Apparently, something happened and nobody could log on to the server. My first thought was password expiration so I told them to just log on as domain admin and reset the passwords of the affected users.
Things got interesting when the next question was, “What is the password?”. Now, this was a year after the initial installation and I did not have the password – as a matter of principle, I encourage clients to change the initial password after an installation is completed so they have the assurance that I will not “sneak in”. They took my advise.
Mozilla released 