If you do not have an active BitCoin client and are not currently watcing and buying bitcoins, I think you are totally getting behind. This may never take over for national currency, but the power and technology behind it is amazing!
It's technical architecture was described in detail at: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-287.pdf
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
OneNote 2010 and Windows Mobile 6 on MotoQ9m
So this was frustrating, I spent a bunch of time trying to get OneNote 2010 Moible on my phone, I could not find a CAB file or anything. All I found was articles affirming that Office Mobile is released FREE for Windows Mobile 6.5. My guess is that there is no version of OneNote Mobile 2010 for my Windows Mobile 6.0 phone.
So I pulled out my old Office 2007 Enterprise CD, opened the OneNote CAB file, found the Onenote Mobile CAB file (ONMOBILE.CAB_1033), and copied it to my desktop. I then renamed it to ONMOBILE.CAB and copied it to the external storage card on my phone.
From the phone I executed and installed it. Now I can sync my OneNotes from my phone to OneNote 2010, as long as I keep my Mobile Workbook in 2007 mode.
Whew!
So I pulled out my old Office 2007 Enterprise CD, opened the OneNote CAB file, found the Onenote Mobile CAB file (ONMOBILE.CAB_1033), and copied it to my desktop. I then renamed it to ONMOBILE.CAB and copied it to the external storage card on my phone.
From the phone I executed and installed it. Now I can sync my OneNotes from my phone to OneNote 2010, as long as I keep my Mobile Workbook in 2007 mode.
Whew!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Plagiarized!
In 2005 I wrote several knowledgebase aritcles for my company's support website (http://support.digitalfoundation.net/). Just yesterday I got a phone call from a confused and frustrated TechXpress customer wondering how we got the data he was attempting to send in to TechXpress for support. The problem is that TechXpress copied these articles that had instructions to email the support info to my company's support account.
Needless to say, I am disappointed in TechXpress and amused at the same time.
To make things more interesting, it as out on the newswire
Old URL: www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2186994.htm
So I took advantage of of the situation and wrote a press release on my own company site. I have since been contacted by the owner who removed my articles and asked me to take down my press release.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Enterprise Search
Several months ago Microsoft released a new search tool call Windows Search 4.0 (an update to Windows Desktop Search). With Windows Search a user on Windows XP or Vista Machines can perform a search onthe network drive and recieve instant results.
This type of search capability is extremely powerful and productive, previously tools that provided such capability were extremely expensive (Google search appliance) and/or complicated (dtSearch).
I myself created an ASP based webpage that my clients could browse to. The webpage would perform an ISXXO query to the Index Server on the file server. This worked pretty good - but was a but buggy, not as fast, and definitely not integrated into the user experience.
It has taken me so long to figure out the Remote Query Capability of Windows Search because for me it was just not working. I finally ran into this article (http://biztechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=416) that explained for the Remote Query functionality of desktop search to work - the path you had to be accessing in the file explorer is \\computername\share using the IP address or FQDN woudl not work. I look forward to Microsoft updating this limitation in future versions of Desktop Search.
This type of search capability is extremely powerful and productive, previously tools that provided such capability were extremely expensive (Google search appliance) and/or complicated (dtSearch).
I myself created an ASP based webpage that my clients could browse to. The webpage would perform an ISXXO query to the Index Server on the file server. This worked pretty good - but was a but buggy, not as fast, and definitely not integrated into the user experience.
It has taken me so long to figure out the Remote Query Capability of Windows Search because for me it was just not working. I finally ran into this article (http://biztechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=416) that explained for the Remote Query functionality of desktop search to work - the path you had to be accessing in the file explorer is \\computername\share using the IP address or FQDN woudl not work. I look forward to Microsoft updating this limitation in future versions of Desktop Search.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Windows 7
Yes the next versionafter Vista. Really Vista nowadays is a fine operating system. It is stable, pretty, and has some fancy features. But it is also a bit clunky in its attempt to provide tighter security.
Widnows 7 is what Vista should have been - it is FAST (was faster than Vista) - just as secure but ot nearly as obtrusive. Also has some great new Windows management tools. The Beta is comming out soon and I am really looking forward to it.
Widnows 7 is what Vista should have been - it is FAST (was faster than Vista) - just as secure but ot nearly as obtrusive. Also has some great new Windows management tools. The Beta is comming out soon and I am really looking forward to it.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Back up your data!
About a year ago I had a client lose all their pictures on the Hard drive f their home PC. They did not have backups and all the computer tools a typical tech guy has would not work. I had to send this out to a company that specializes in data recovery - in the end it cost $2000 and they got back ALL the data.
Recently, this happened again to another client who list their financial data in quicken. They certainly did not want to shell out $2,000 - I was hoping I could start putting the skills I have been developing in HTCIA to use. I met with the Computer Forensics Investigator for the SLO PD - he showed me plenty of tools - lucky for me this was not an easy recovery so there was alot for me to watch. In the end I was able to recover the Quicken data and have used these skills more than once on other hard drives.
Please, backup your data - and also be careful with what you store and transmit digitally.
Recently, this happened again to another client who list their financial data in quicken. They certainly did not want to shell out $2,000 - I was hoping I could start putting the skills I have been developing in HTCIA to use. I met with the Computer Forensics Investigator for the SLO PD - he showed me plenty of tools - lucky for me this was not an easy recovery so there was alot for me to watch. In the end I was able to recover the Quicken data and have used these skills more than once on other hard drives.
Please, backup your data - and also be careful with what you store and transmit digitally.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Computer Forensics w/ the FBI
So I had a neat experience the other day, being a member of HTCIA (A law enforcement, computer forensics group) we had our monthly meeting at the FBI office in Santa Maria. It pretty cool when you have to go through three different security gates/doors all with buzzers and cameras.
I have been a member with HTCIA for three years now and have learned so much. When it comes to crime and obtaining evidence it is amazing how much stuff you can find on someone's computer, cell phone, and GPS unit.
I have been a member with HTCIA for three years now and have learned so much. When it comes to crime and obtaining evidence it is amazing how much stuff you can find on someone's computer, cell phone, and GPS unit.
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