This will save a lot of time for those who need it…
Looking for manageable Windows updates even without an internet connection? Our offline update 3.0 script collection downloads the entire body of updates for Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003 from Microsoft’s servers in one fell swoop and then uses them to create patch packages on CD, DVD or USB stick. Those in turn allow you to update as many PCs as desired.
I missed on the the clearance sales for LED lights last year so I made a point to pick them up in time this year… I got sixty 50-LED strings at about $3 each at Walmart. So in 2007 I’ll be all lit-up and environmentally conscious as well! 
The automatic reboots after an overnight Windows update are pretty annoying. After some search, I found the comments in this blog post to be most helpful in changing the behaviour…
Now - I still get the nag screens reminding me to reboot, but it doesn’t do it automatically.
Sweet!
For those of you using Gmail:
Just a week after I wrote “Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect” a number of users started screaming that all of their emails and contacts were auto deleted.
Update: Fixed the link
Its good to see that we’re making progress!
You know how it is.
You go through life thinking you’ve got your head wrapped around the world and all of its knowable information.
Then one day you read that since 2005, scientists have discovered more than 50 new species of animals and plants on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. These new members of the List of Animals We Previously Didn’t Have a Clue About include a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly that help it stick to rocks.
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
Here’s the original ad for the first generation iPod…
All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials – and hackers – to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid about strangers slurping up your identity? Here’s what you can do about it.
I’ve always wondered if working when you’re young was a good or bad thing…
Teenagers are working their tails off in school and at everything from violin lessons to swim team, but fewer are working for the money these days, and that means they’re missing out on a key rite of passage.
Maybe its finally time for me to get my license!
The FCC has dropped the Morse Testing requirement for amateur radio certifications. The public announcement was made on Friday. Ham radio operators will no longer have to study Morse, in a move patterned after other western nations
I haven’t decided to make the jump to Vista quite yet, but for those of you who have - this may be useful:
Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be a bit of a pain for many enterprise customers. The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. According to a Google search Samba doesn’t support this yet.
To get Vista to work with Samba follow the simple instructions below
Personally, I have no idea what a finite simple group of order two is, but I bet its safe to assume that these guys do…
Here are the words if you’d like to follow along… 
An interesting article about the diamond industry…
An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign
I had a hunch, but didn’t know for sure… 
Now you’ll get 10mbps (up from 6mbps) on Cablemodem with Time-Warner… for the same price!
Time Warner is quietly notifying some of its customers that it plans to double the download speed of its Road Runner broadband service to 10Mbps starting in Q1 2007
