Lets photoshop out some women...

Another major-ish news story going around at the moment (apart from the Australian federal governments terrible budget - but thats localised) is the jewish newspaper that photoshopped out the two women in the situation room during the "obama gets osama" mission. Huh? What? Why? There's been apologies/statements/rubbish released about respect of women and blah blah…

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MS buys Skype

In news that seems to front page on every tech-related site available - MS buys skype..... i wonder if this means we'll see some Lync / Skype interoperability - as that wouold be awesome! :-) Being able to federate with Video/Voice to MS live users is handy - but adding Skype to the list would…

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Lync 2010 and compatibility

OCS/Lync has always had some compatibility issues with other VOIP prvodiers out.... MS's decision to go with SIP over TCP (instead of UDP) and the use of RTAudio seem to be the main ones. When implementing in a corporate environment, Lync is a great solution on its own - but definately has its challenges when…

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The wastage of the MS partner program....

Over the years, the Microsoft partner program rubbish has built up. I have requested that we no longer be sent the DVD's, plaques etc.... but at the time (granted, this was years ago) - i was told that was not an option - and asked the courier to no longer deliver packages from MS. Not…

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Top ten games of a "generation"

Saw this article over on shacknews - http://www.shacknews.com/article/67917/guitar-hero-iii-tops-list Guitar Hero 3 - fair enough, great game and probably the first exposure many people had to that genre... but call of duty: black ops ? Sure, it sold lots, but is the fact the game is a boring piece of shit not conern anyone ? Where's…

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Cisco VPN client with Forefront TMG

So this one has been bugging me for a while... and then a client asked for it - so i had to get it sorted.... So it seems with some Cisco VPN connections, i can connect, but not send any traffic when the Cico VPN client is behind a TMG server. Give the VPN client…

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Stargate universe....

If only the first 1.5 seasons actually had some of the action that has come along in the first few episodes of the back half of season 2... it might not of been canned! Hopefully we'll see another stargate series at some stage.... and hopefully with a bit more pew-pew and asgard beaming naquadria nukes…

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