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I’ve been playing online poker at Party Poker for the last couple of months but I hadn’t been playing for real money up until tonight when I made my first $50 deposit. On the play-money tables, you can win a lot and it’s not always that much fun because players will bet stupidly, not caring […]

Another juicy bit of documentation for the AD geeks out there. This is an updated version of Microsoft’s best-practice documentation for recovering your Active Directory forest. Brief Description This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers in the forest incapable of […]

This is more of a bookmark for me rather than a blog post, but there may be others out there interested in this MSDN blog focusing on (much-needed) ADFS documentation. Link to ADFS Documentation Blog

Less than a day old and there is already a critical security alert for Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7. This vulnerability only affects IE7, so I guess it’s not recommended to upgrade just yet. This is a big blow for Microsoft as they have been touting this as their most secure browser ever. Let’s hope […]

Sun are breaking all the rules once again with a datacenter in a box product. Dubbed Project Blackbox, this is essentially as many servers, networking and storage devices as possible all crammed into a shipping container. Using revolutionary cooling systems this thing is guarranteed to stay cool in any situation. You could even consider it ‘portable’ […]

Here’s a nifty site that may or may not be useful to you. FeedRaider lets you set up your own pages with feeds that you choose displayed in a variety of formats. Not too sure what market this is aiming for as you can already do this with Netvibes and the other home-page providers. But it’s […]

Updated review on the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta email/feeds/news/contacts/calendar client with new screenshots. This is an overhaul of the antiquated Outlook Express client and is targeted towards MSN/Live/Spaces users mainly. read more | digg story

The red, iPod nano that everyone has been talking about is now available from the US Apple website. This was launched by Bono and Oprah Winfrey and $10 from each sale goes towards the fight against AIDS in Africa. I really like the colour of this, and if I was in the market for a […]

Microsoft today released Virtual PC 2007 to beta testers via the Connect website and I must say I am quite underwhelmed. We were expecting some form of multiple snapshots and a better management console, but neither are to be seen in this release. read more | digg story

Internet Explorer 7 is just about at RTM and will be delivered to all Windows users as a high-priority, automatic update this month. What does this mean to you? Well, whether you like it or not, shortly you too will be running IE7 if you aren’t already. read more | digg story