Category Archives: web/internet

Block IE use via Proxy registry settings

April 6, 2005 – 4:30 pm

Another amazingly simple idea from Novel’s cool solutions crowd – blocking access to IE via pushing out the proxy settings in the registry. Tweet

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Is Microsoft a BlackBerry Killer?

April 4, 2005 – 3:49 pm

Internet Week has an interesting story about Microsoft’s aspirations to kill off Blackberry and make it’s upcoming Windows Mobile upgrade, code-named Magneto the kind of the handheld hill. The reasoning is there- why pay for Microsoft Exchange and RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server software if you can get all of the functionality from Exchange by itself? [...]

By T.J. | Also posted in Windows | Comments (0)

New FCC chief friendly to schools

April 4, 2005 – 3:13 pm

According to eSchool News Online: “Kevin J. Martin, President Bush’s choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into a new era of digital transmissions, is a firm supporter of the eRate and other telecommunications programs that benefit education, according to an analysis of his voting record and public statements he has made as an [...]

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Spectrum-starved US prepares to feast

March 30, 2005 – 12:40 pm

Story on newly and soon to be available spectrum in the US Tweet

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The Neat and public services

March 30, 2005 – 12:38 pm

Working for a public school district, I found this article from the BBC interesting. I think they are right – in the end it’s the quality of service, not the method of delivery that is the most important. Tweet

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Firefox IDN update

February 28, 2005 – 9:46 am

Firefox has released version 1.0.1, which fixes the IDN spoofing issue, as well as about a dozen other security issues, and added some performance enhancements. Right now it’s a manual install, and sounds fairly tricky. You may want to stick with the fix I posted earlier for working around this problem until Firefox releases 1.0.1 [...]

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