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Looks like Vista’s UAC is getting another grilling on several security blogs at the moment. Security researcher, Joanna Rutkowska wrote a post going into detail about UAC and pointed out an obvious flaw that she discovered. Seems that Vista detects setup executables when they are launched through a heuristics mechanism which checks for an installer […]

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I’ve been quietly working on the Blogtown NZ site for the last few months, and it seems to be shaping up nicely. It’s a free, hosted, blogging service for Kiwis and everyone else living in NZ. It’s based on WordPress MU which is the multi-user version of WordPress, the famous blogging software. If you don’t […]

Google recently released an update to their Image search pages. I hate it!! You now have to roll-over each image to see the dimensions and the domain name. Matt Cutts blogged about this recently and most of the comments he received were very negative towards the redesign. I’ll admit that the interface now looks cleaner […]

Biggest news around the blogosphere today was about Steve Jobs’s memo about DRM and why we shouldn’t put up with it. I won’t go in too deep on his thoughts as there is already lots being said out there (check TechMeme, Technorati, or Google BlogSearch for details.) My brief thoughts are that although I agree […]

I’ll be up to date with my reading soon, but in the meantime here’s a whole bunch more to catch up on… Downloadable Guide Available for Exchange 2007 You can now download the first couple of guides (word docs) for Exchange 2007. Deploying a Standard Exchange Server 2007 Organization: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82170 Deploying a Simple Exchange Server […]

I was going to update my original post with this but I thought it would be easier to put it in a seperate post. Here’s how I updated the Simpla theme to have 3 columns with widgets. First read this post: http://stuart.amanzi.co.nz/2006/05/30/new-simpla-theme-with-widgets/ Then edit the sidebar.php like this: <div id=”sidebar2″> <ul> <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || […]

I went to the Wellington Sevens tournament last night and it was great fun. We spent the first half of the night in the Delloitte Lounge and then headed intot the crowd for some mayhem. I snapped a whole bunch of pics which are now up on Flickr. Here’s some of the best. (if you’re […]

I’ve been running Vista Ultimate for the last couple of weeks – it’s been full of highs and lows, but I’m saving that for a future blog post. But I ran into something interesting this morning when I went to use one of Vista’s little-known gems, the Snipping Tool. It’s a nifty little screen capture […]

I meant to blog about this last year when I discovered it, but this appears to be the little-known Holy Grail of syncing applications. SyncMyCal is an Outlook plugin that synchronises your Google Calendar with your Outlook calendar – and both ways too! If you search for “Google Calendar sync” you’ll find lots of people searching for the perfect tool to […]