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Microsoft is calling unwanted newsletters that you have subscribed to… “Graymail”. Right… Wasn’t “Graymail” something like blackmailing the government to evade prosecution? Silly that Microsoft’s marketing gurus overlooked that… or didn’t they? In either case, I think that any newsletter that does not provide a one-click opt-out… is spam, simple. Read more…

My UPS has been running non-stop for almost 5 years now. I’ve bought this device in April 2007 and it has been working fine ever since. Yesterday I decided it was time to rearrange my little corner of my office, take out my PowerEdge server and with it, service my Read more…

This post is a bit more about power savings. If you read the last post you probably noticed that I’m going all happy about saving electricity with my computer, let me explain why. In the past I had 2 servers. One simple one, a DIY PC with some neat motherboard, Read more…

My PC has become unreliable lately, so it is time for a change. After 2.5 years of heavy duty I’ve decided to perform some delicate surgery… My current PC is quite a feat of engineering. Let’s take a look at the specs: Processor: AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition Quad Read more…

Just one of the things the average user is batteling with every patch tuesday is that if you have 10 different software products installed, you have 10 different update procedures to go through. Something tells me this could (and should) be a lot simpler. One of the best updaters in Read more…

Certificates that are stored in a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) of a computer, marked as non-exportable should not be allowed to be exported, ever… It seems though that iSEC found a way to ‘Jailbreak’ non-exportable certificates. The big question is: is this a hack or is this using official supported Read more…