The last week I have been up to something completely non-technical. The summer is around the corner and the house needs a terrace.

In case your wondering. The time stamps shown for blog entries seem to be always wrong. I've written this at 8:20 CEST (i.e. UTC + 2). But the time shown on the web site is one hour off. Maybe the website is still on winter time?

Yesterday the new PCs arrrived. I sat mine up and left it yesterday evening copying my data to from the old to the new system. This morning I was greeted with a blue screen stating

Today was rather successful. After a long, strenuous discussion with my boss, he approved purchasing new PCs for my team.  And our system QA gets some necessary hardware replacements, too.

And we will setup the systems by ourselves, of course...

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... to use Windows Vista instead of any older Windows version, then it's this one:

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) data shows that the infection rate for Windows Vista–based computers is 60.5 percent less than that of computers running Windows XP SP2, and 91.5 percent less than the infection rate for Windows XP with no service packs installed.

From the MS Security Intelligence Report July-December 2007. The numbers are normalized, i.e. they take the different number of installations of each OS into account. They are even more impressive when you consider that the number of PCs running Windows Vista has increased by millions during the last two years. I'm pretty sure that this is mainly because per default users on Windows Vista aren't administrators. Most of today's malware assumes that the user has administrative rights. You should read the whole...

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Did you know? You now can embed Dilbert comic strips in your blog.

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And there are a lot more goodies. Like animated Dilbert comics, a big archive including every strip since 2001. And finally they have an official RSS feed for the daily comic.

It's an old issue, but it came up again in the forum today. For future reference I post it here, too. Per default SwyxIt! enables application sharing so that you can share your desktop or an application with another SwyxIt! user with a few mouse clicks. SwyxIt! uses Microsoft Netmeeting for this feature. When Netmeeting starts the whole screen flickers or, depending on the speed of your graphic hardware goes black for a short time.

XKCD is one of the best online comics. Check it out :-)

And btw, how do you know that you have a rather cheap GPS? Look here.

Hint: Hover you mouse over a xkcd comic and read the tool tip.

Newsflash: Swyx has secret plans for the new training sessions when SwyxWare 7.0 will be released by the end of this year. This video has been found on the desk of the Training Planning Manager (TPM) at Swyx. See you in Dortmund in the end of the year.

No Internet in South Park:

While the US economy is sliding into recession and the rest of the world is trying to figure out what is going on, this video explains a lot. BTW, this is not a joke.

Yet another week is history. It is Friday and I want to share with you what I have been up to this week.

SwyxIt! setup is a standard Windows Installer MSI package and can be deployed with any method which supports Windows Installer. SwyxIt! manual describes in section 9.3.3 how to do an unattended installation using command-line parameters. When you want to deploy SwyxIt via an Active Directory Group Policy object instead you need a Windows Installer Transformation (MST) to customize the setup.

Last year Larry Osterman, Microsoft "Veteran" who started working there in 1984, had a series of blog entries about craplets, small, helper

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It all boils down to your preferences, but Mozart performing on his own piano for classical music lovers or Ridley Scott lecturing about Blade Runner if you are crazy about sci-fi movies, would be moments to take your breath away. On Saturday 12th of April almost 1600 people had such a moment in Oslo.

Reminder to myself. Be more careful with green curry paste. It's really, really spicy.

But my wife would probably say that it would have made me a liar. Anyway, you judge if this is a progress or not.

Have a nice weekend everyone, and easy on the fastfood.

Can you imagine that a nine-year-old taking the subway home makes the news?

If you do love Star Trek and Monty Python this is what you want to see !

That's the headline of a story in the online version of The New York Times . Bottom line is that

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If you are a frequent reader of the forum, you have noticed that from time to time there will be posts about SIP Trunking. We often then ask the poster if the provider is tested by Swyx. This is not just something we say because we can't help...

Since I am working with Hosted SwyxWare I subscribe to a newsletter from Parallells, the developer behind the server virtualization product Virtuozzo. This morning I had a fresh newsletter in my inbox.

A student in Michigan has a rather unusual hobby.

Jean Michel Jarre has a video blog on YouTube from the Oxygène Tour. If you like this kind of music, check it out.

Jean Michel Jarre YouTube Video Bog