BRUCEB NEWS
Bruceb News Continues On Hiatus Until The End Of 2020
I can’t wait until 2020 finally ends! You look puzzled – oh, I understand! A lot of people weren’t expecting the epilogue to 2020, which will continue for another week or so. Think of it as a hangover following a particularly unpleasant night of anger-drinking and...
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SBS 2003 & SBS 2008
Small Business Server 2008 is nearly here! The final code was released to manufacturing yesterday. I wrote an overview of SBS 2008 last month. Here's an exhaustive rundown of the...
GLITCHES & ANNOYANCES
Tough week! Here are the kind of things that fill my days. And bear in mind, these are all stories about software and services that I love dearly - this is the good stuff, these...
VISTA SERVICE PACK 1 CLEANUP
If you're running Windows Vista, here's a safe way to reclaim some hard drive space. Before Vista Service Pack 1 is installed, Vista makes an extra copy of all the system files...
VERIZON MOBILE WIRELESS FUN
I have a Verizon mobile wireless adapter built into my Dell Latitude D630. I pay sixty bucks a month so I can connect to a reasonably fast EVDO broadband connection from just...
NEW DELL LATITUDE NOTEBOOKS
Dell introduced seven new models of Latitude business notebooks today. There are details, videos, and some screen shots on this page. Here's a partial list of new and improved...
OFFICE LIVE WORKSPACE UPDATE
Microsoft Office Live Workspace is one of the more interesting ways to store documents online and share them easily. Access is obtained through your Windows Live ID, the password...
JUNGLE DISK ONLINE BACKUP
Take a look at Jungle Disk, a service for online backups with a good reputation. I'm testing it now and finding a lot of things to like. The idea is simple - back up folders to a...
OLYMPIC TECHNOLOGY
By the close of the 2008 Olympic Games, NBC will have broadcast 2,900 hours of live coverage - more than the total number of US television hours for all previous summer Olympic...
FAKE FLASH UPDATE – SPYWARE ALERT!
There is a massive spam attack underway masquerading as messages from CNN.com. The first set of messages had links to the "Top 10 Headlines" and "Top 10 Videos"; now there are...
SECURITY EXHAUSTION
DROWNING IN JAVA
There are frequent updates for Java, the technology used by many web sites to make interesting things happen in your browser. You've probably seen the Java update bubble popping...
ACTIVESYNC FOR BLACKBERRY
ActiveSync is the technology from Microsoft that connects a mobile device to Exchange Server. For businesses running Small Business Server, it is ActiveSync that makes a Windows...
STEP 1 – BACKUP. STEP 2 – BACKUP AGAIN.
Let me tell you a scary story. When we plan our backups, the idea is to have a duplicate copy of our data on something separate from where it is normally stored and used. In...
SECURITY PROGRAM RANT
An interesting perspective on the state of security programs, from Susan Bradley's invaluable blog: "Anti-virus, you have lost. You sit there filling up our system trays with...
WHAT I USE
On the assumption that my choices are endlessly fascinating to an ever-growing number of people - really, really bored people - I've added a page with details about the hardware...