Opinions are like …

“Opinions are like assholes – everybody has one.  At his age your father should know that not everyone wants to see his butt, or hear his opinion.” – Jake Grafton, The Intruders by Stephen Coonts

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The Girl At The Beach

A couple lived near the ocean and used to walk the beach a lot.

One summer they noticed a girl who was at the beach almost every day.

She wasn’t unusual, nor was the travel bag she carried, except for one thing; she would approach people who were sitting on the beach, [...]

How to set GUEST mode for Microsoft ActiveSync

For those times when you don’t want a PC to try to establish a partnership with your Windows Mobile device, you can use this registry file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services] “GuestOnly”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services] “Sync window display mode”=dword:00000000

Update 28 July 2009: As msalvai comments below, it does work with [...]

Reporters are like solicitors and doctors …

- the less you see of them the more tranquil your life. (L/Col Jocko West)  The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts

PDA screen capturing.

Since a reader asked “What did you use for screen capturing, with your recent PDA posts”.

Windows Mobile I use Pocket Controller Pro, which I mentioned here.  There is a short trial period.  I like it so much, that I now own a copy.

Since writing this post, I’ve switched over to using [...]

Activating Vista Enterprise to a Key Management Server (KMS)

Open a command prompt (as administrator). Run "cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms IP_address_of_KMS:1688 && slmgr.vbs -ato"

Another reason to hate Computer Associates.

  Computer Associates used to FREELY share their product information.

These days?  Nada.

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“Key security questions that every executive should be able to answer”

Saw this back in 2003, and you can find the original here:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=80765

By Eric Cole

To make sure you understand your organization’s issues, you should be asking the following questions before formulating a security plan:

What is my organization’s critical information or digital assets? Every company has information that’s unique to it. In [...]

Warning: Egg carton contains Egg

As seen here: Beware: The daft egg-box warning that contents ‘may contain eggs’

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Free GPS Street Mapping software

Google Maps.

Heck, I’m impressed with it.

It’s free (apart from the mobile data charges) It’s accurate It does travel routing (but not “turn-by-turn” ) It can download Google Street Maps images

But even if you don’t have GPS, Google Maps will determine your location via cell / mobile phone towers.

I was [...]