Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley reports Patch Windows Now, Homeland Security Warns. “The Department of Homeland Security has spoken. Apply the patches in the MS06-040 security bulletin for Windows, which Microsoft released on August 8, the agency is warning users.”
I received the “Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August, 2006″ in my inbox this morning. You'll want to sign up on the Microsoft site if you don't get this email and have responsibility for supporting and protecting Windows machines. You can find the bulletin here.
Nearly all the 12 items were rated critical and resulted in [...]
Here is a clever solution to the problem of trying to remember all of your passwords, settings, configurations and so forth when converting your current OS into a VM: backup your old installation and restore it into a clean VM. There may be problems with drivers and such, since the VM “hardware” may not [...]
