http://www.walterglenn.com Small business and home computing in a (mostly) Microsoft world. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:44:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a year and a half ago, my son was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. (Not Type II, which has been getting all the news lately along with declining health issues). He decided last year to do the walk for research for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and raised a bunch ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/10/09/liams-mountain-marchers/ Ars Technica has the first 2 parts of a multiple part story up on the history of the Amiga computer: History of the Amiga Part 1 It's a great read, since they go not only into the technical details, but also into the video game politics of the day. Each part ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/08/13/history-of-the-amiga/ Since my last article on Vista's new Volume Mixer, I got a few comments from people saying that Vista didn't remember their settings and just set volume for other apps somewhat randomly. But Volume Mixer does remember the settings, just not the way you might think. I thought I'd do ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/08/11/more-on-vista-volume-mixer/ Windows Vista includes Complete PC Backup, an image-based backup program that works similarly to Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage. Complete PC Backup creates an image of one or more entire hard disk partitions. In the event of a hard drive failure, you can replace the disk, restore from that image, ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/06/27/vista-automate-and-schedule-complete-pc-backup/ I'd like to announce the publication of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion, which I wrote with Scott Lowe and Josh Maher. This is the fourth edition of the book. I originally wrote it for Exchange Server 5.5. Written for the experienced IT pro (who may or may not ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/06/27/book-microsoft-exchange-server-2007-administrators-companion/ A couple of years ago, I helped out with the documentation for the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit. On June 22, 2007, Microsoft released the newest incarnation of the product, now named Windows SteadyState. For those who haven't seen or heard of it, SteadyState is a utility that makes it easier ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/06/27/microsoft-steadystate-managing-shared-computers/ I recently wrote a new article comparing the various editions of Windows Vista and talking about how to decide which edition is right for you. Check it out at the Windows Vista Community site. http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/01/20/article-windows-vista-editions-whats-right-for-you/ While the new .docx format in Word 2007 promises great things, for now most of the people you'll be working with are still using Word 2003 or (gasp) an even earlier version. The .doc format remained virtually unchanged in Word 97-2003 and is still supported in Word 2007. But Word ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/01/13/save-as-doc-instead-of-docx-in-word-2007/ I picked up a couple of the SanDisk Cruzer 2GB U3 Titanium USB drives today because I found them for $50 each after an instant rebate at Costco. I've been needing to upgrade from my old 512 MB drive for some time anyway. The drive itself is beautiful - a ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2006/12/19/sandisk-2gb-titanium-usb-drive-on-windows-vista/ Exchange Server 2007 went to RTM last Friday (December 8, 2006). Trial versions are now available at Microsoft's Exchange site. You can download the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version, but only the 64-bit version is supported for production use (and obviously requires Windows Server 2003 64-bit). The 32-bit version ... http://www.walterglenn.com/2006/12/14/exchange-server-2007-evaluation-available-for-download/