User: Zermatt

Google No Longer Accessible From Work

On: Microsoft's Answer to Google Base

Off-Topic but I have no kharma right now.

I can no longer access Google (www.google.com) from work.

The company filters websites it finds objectional (including Yahoo and Google email, but not my DSL Extreme email. Go figure.) They just laid a block on the www.google.com domain, but NOT Google Maps, Google News, and as it turns out, Google Base.

I guess Google Cache got to be a problem. (Sigh.)

Re:Great for thin clients (maybe much lower TCO)

On: Microsoft To Enter Hosting Business

I always thought that .NET (in fact, the whole business model for MS) was to migrate to a subscription based service.

The thin client model lends itself to this.

From the Article

On: 'Sith' Already Found Online

"The movie was time-stamped, suggesting it may have come from within the industry rather than from someone who videotaped an advance screening."

I don't blame the MPAA one bit for going after thieves for distributing a pre-release copy.

Mirror of Boot Charts

On: Boot Process Visualization

LI

I Prefer hijackThis and others.

On: Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises

HiJack This, Spybot, and AdAware, along with msconfig screening, and registry repair, mass deletions of practically "toolbar" and "search" package in the "Program Files" directory, Google Search of ANY suspect process, and hours of my time, and I can usually clean off most of the crap that people unwittingly install on their PC's.

Then I install Firefox and set as default, install Google Toolbar in IE, block every pop-up in sight, and recommend that they buy a router. That usually does the trick.

Ditto.

On: Judge Petitioned To Unseal SCO-IBM Court Records

I was posting to Groklaw and it froze.

Now I'm stuck with an awesome response in buffer, trying to find the parent post again

Sigh.

One size no longer fits all.

On: Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture

This is just a smart business move for Microsoft. Offer a coustm, made to suit version of the OS to their critical customers.