Archive for the ‘Bobel’ Category

October was a bad month for computing founders (2011-10-25)

Apple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie LISP http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-84/

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011 (2011-10-5)

You have to be impressed by this guys life – http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/index.html?iref=BN1&hpt=hp_t1.

HTC Incredible to support Near Field Communciation (NFC) (2011-9-16)

A friend of mine is working on NFC and I wondered if my Android device would support it – well it didn’t but there is a new version of the phone in development that was just tested by the FCC for NFC compatibility. http://www.nfcrumors.com/08-17-2011/is-the-htc-incredible-s-the-next-google-wallet-enabled-nfc-phone-it-just-passed-through-the-fcc/

Smart card presentation at the AFITC (2011-8-30)

Yesterday I had the opportunity to present at the Air Force Information Technology Conference 2011 on HSPD-12 and its impact on logical access control. While preparing for this session I realized I needed to re-visit Microsoft’s PKI (Public Key Infrastructure); especially changes in Windows 2008, Vista and Windows 7 strong authentication support. The first thing [...]

Setting msExchRequireAuthToSendTo during group creation (2011-8-18)

I was working with a customer who wanted the option to set the msExchRequireAuthToSendTo attribute during mail enabled group creation. The challenge is that the native Exchange console always defaults this value to TRUE making it easy for the user to forget to un-check the value after the creation of the group. Using ActiveRoles Server [...]

Top 10 Reasons ActiveRoles Beat the Competition (2011-7-25)

I get one question frequently from both customers and colleges. “Why was ActiveRoles able to so easily beat the competition over the past seven years?” Unfortunately, there isn’t a single answer, rather it is a combination of design elements put into the product over time. Purpose Built for Active Directory -Unlike other solutions, ActiveRoles was [...]

bv-Admin EOL – RIP (2011-7-8)

Some of you may not have heard that Symantec’s bv-Admin was officially end-of-lifed and is no longer supported as of early in 2011. Originally a Windows NT management tool, later it was retrofitted to manage AD. While bv-Admin had several ground breaking features for its time, the acquisition of Bindview, development challenges and competitive pressures appear [...]

ActiveRoles IT Policy Market (2011-3-7)

The ActiveRoles Marketprovides additional functional policies that may be downloaded and imported into ActiveRoles Server. An example of the typs of policies on the market is the Group Ownership Reassignment Policythat transfers ownership of a group to a manager when the original owner is deprovisioned. What defines an Extensible Policy was expanded in the 6.7 release [...]

Android 2.3 Revealed (2010-12-8)

Tech Republic has some cool screenshots of the next versoin of Google’s Android OS. http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-13416_11-489795.html?tag=nl.e099.dl101208&tag=nl.e099

Verizon gets Apple iPad friendly (2010-10-17)

I received this by email over the weekend. While Verizon can’t seem to get the Apple’s iPhone it is going to sell Apple’s iPad starting in late October.