Ian Matthews

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hack-windows-security-snow-leopard,8704.html#xtor=RSS-181 …”Snow Leopard’s more secure than Leopard, but it’s not as secure as Vista or Windows 7,” he said. “When Apple has both [in place], that’s when I’ll stop complaining about Apple’s security.”… …It is of the opinion of Charlie Miller, a well known Mac security guru, that even Snow Read more…

I recently tried to find an snippet from the MS Internet Explorer 3.0 (from Win95C) that stated there were only 150 web sites in 1993. However, the help file I was looking for was a link to a web site which is now gone and http://www.archive.org/ has nothing for it. Read more…

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/05/29/microsoft-drops-3-app-limit-from-windows-7-starter-edition?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_downloadsquad by Brad Linder The team of Microsoft developers working on Windows 7 have written a blog post spelling out exactly what features will and will not be available in Windows 7 Starter Edition. And the company has decided to drop one of the most talked-about restrictions: the ability to Read more…

Click the following link for an excellent 10 minute brief on Windows 7 changes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/dd758778.aspx?ITPID=tnflash Also, MS has produced a small (and very incomplete) set of pages explaining some of the enhancements in 7. What’s New in AppLocker What’s New in Biometrics What’s New in Certificates What’s New in Deployment Read more…

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/0df87502c0a8000601144f665dfd90a3/pg1.htm … The Speed-Test Results By and large, we found that Internet Explorer 8 performed well, and beat out Firefox 3.0.7 in the majority of our time trials.However, IE 8’s performance advantage is relatively negligible. In most of our testing, IE 8’s advantage was half a second or less. One Read more…

http://gm-volt.com/2009/04/05/chevy-volt-will-be-launched-in-canada-in-july-2011/ It has been long known that the Volt would begin its North American launch in November 2010. GM continues to report confidence in being able to achieve that deadline. Previous interviews have suggested the Volt would be rolled out throughout North America more or less at the same time. Read more…

This is a great response to GM’s Prez from a gutsy supplier that obviously put principle before money and politics. Well worth the read. Better yet, Snopes says this letter is not a hoax. Dear Employees & Suppliers, Congress and the current Administration will soon determine whether to provide immediate Read more…

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?id=24319&catid=3 Microsoft announced on its Engineering Windows 7 blog today that the next version of Windows 7 would not be a beta, but a near-final version of the OS, a release candidate (RC). In the blog post Microsoft points out that it considers the rolling out of new operating systems Read more…

This is an edited CAR BUSINESS TV episode which details the 2010 GM Chevrolet Volt as it stood at the 2008 LA Car show. It discusses everything from what will happen to the batteries after they are “expired” to how the power grid will adapt.

In case you are unaware of the news, below is a brief, followed by my FAQ’s http://www.betanews.com/article/Seagate_confronts_an_overflow_of_bricked_hard_drives/1232564973 The scope of the problem is so massive, with so many users complaining in so many places online and attributing any drive failure to this problem, that it’s difficult to determine what exactly Read more…

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

There are two EXCELLENT articles from Microsoft’s December 2008 Technet Magazine on how to manage Macs. These articles are excellent because they are relatively brief, include useful screen shots and seem to encaptulate about 80% of what has taken me 3 years to learn! Managing Macs in Your Windows Environment Read more…