Alexander's BlogAlexander's Blog includes comments, news, observations, tips, and much more on technical topics such as training, certification, security, messaging, hardware, network clients/servers, troubleshooting, etc. Topics are not necessarily limited to Microsoft products and technologies, even though the vast majority of discussions are Microsoft-specific.California gets serious about data breach- April 22, 2007 The California assembly committee recently passed a bill which will affect all companies doing business in California. Among other businesses, it will have a serious impact on credit card companies, banks, and financial institutions who handle users' personal data. The bill will move to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee for a hearing on April 24. According to The Data Breach Notification Bill, Assembly Bill 779, was approved Tuesday by the state Assembly Judiciary Committee with...http://www.techgalaxy.net/blog/index.html/200704.html#e236 What Will Be Longhorn Server Named- April 19, 2007 Everyone is guessing what the new name for Longhorn server will be. Microsoft has said that it won't be Vista Server and that the official name will be announced at the time of Beta 3, which is expected in the first half of 2007.Windows Server 2007 could be an obvious choice, but knowing Microsoft, if it is so obvious that people can guess it, they won't like it. Microsoft's marketing department likes things that are different. Actually, they prefer things to be dynamic. Their strategy has been.http://www.techgalaxy.net/blog/index.html/200704.html#e235 UW researchers control the movement of a humanoid robot with signals from a human brain- April 12, 2007 A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person's thoughts. Another sci-fi movie standard depicts robots doing humans' bidding. Now the two are combined, and in real life: University of Washington (UW) researchers in Seattle, WA can control the movement of a humanoid robot with signals from a human brain.Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and his students have demonstrated that an...http://www.techgalaxy.net/blog/index.html/200704.html#e233 How to Force ReadyBoost on USB Drives- April 10, 2007 Windows Vista has a ReadyBoost feature that can improve the performance of your Windows Vista computer. ReadyBoost has certain requirements so not all USB flash devices can be used for Windows ReadyBoost. Here's a method that you can try to force ReadyBoost on a USB flash drive. I am not sure if it has any adverse effect so use it at your own risk.1. Plug in your USB flash drive in Windows Vista.2. In the AutoPlay window, click on the "Speed up my system" option. You may see the following on...http://www.techgalaxy.net/blog/index.html/20070410173550.html Remotely Refresh Group Policies- April 6, 2007 Active Directory Group Policies refresh every 90 minutes on a client (with a plusminus 30 minute offset). If you want to force a refresh remotely on computers, you can use a utility called psExec from Sysinternals. psExec allows you to execute programs on a remote system interactively.Download psExec and at the command prompt execute the following command:psexec computer cmdwhere computer is the IP address or name of the remote computerAssuming you have the proper access to the remote computer,.http://www.techgalaxy.net/blog/index.html/200704.html#e231 |