Microsoft has posted a security alert saying that there is a serious security flaw with Internet Explorer. This security hole allows an attacker to take control of a victim’s computer after clicking on a video link (via ActiveX), which then enables the attacker to run malicious code under the same rights of the local user.  […]

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Ok, enough tech stuff…..time for some comedy relief. My wife always reads depressing novels.  Last Christmas I thought I would get her a book to make her laugh for a change.  I ended up ordering “BORAT: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” from Amazon.  […]

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Google Wave will be released some time later this year. It’s tough trying to describe how it works, since it does so much. Think of it as a merger of: email, blogs, wiki, RSS, real-time collaborative editing (with version control), social networking, project management, ability to embed a Wave on any blog or website, and […]

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Current search engine use is split at around 75% to Google, 15% to Yahoo, 5% to Microsoft and 5% to other 2nd tier search engines. In an attempt to try to challenge Google’s dominance over the search market, Microsoft is about to release Bing.  It is expected to soft-launch in the next few days, and […]

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Slice and dice Google search results

by ron on May 13, 2009

Google has just launched a new set of search features which allow you to slice and dice their search results. Whenever you do a new search, you are now presented with a new “Search options” link.  This allows you to filter your search by different types of results (videos, forums, and reviews), by time (recent, […]

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VMware vSphere 4 has been released, which is the next version of VMware ESX 3.5. The product has 150 new features, and can achieve efficiency savings of around 50% compared to ESX 3.5. The new product supports: 8 VCPUs, 256 GB RAM per VM, network speeds of 30Gb/s, and over 300K of IOPS. The product […]

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