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When looking for a secure hard drive last week I came across a new type of portable storage, Freecom have an encrypted RFID swide-card that unlocks access to your data. The idea sounds great, I could have two cards one assigned to myself and another to a trusted 3rd party, one snag is that the drive itself is NOT encrypted. Who is to say that by removing the drive from its caddy and interfacin it with a computer these security measures would be bypassed?

Hrmmm….

Blu-ray, Sony’s high definition video disc format has made marginal improvements in the last year (7 percent of Americans own a Blu-ray player, up from 4 percent in 2008), however 11 percent have HD-DVD players. Critics claim this to be down to the more competitive pricing of the HD-DVD hardware, my personal view is that the branding “HD-DVD” is less confusing to the average consumer – “Blu-ray” however is a little misleading?

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Surprisingly it took a little while for the iPhone hacking community to work around Apple’s 3.0 mobile substrate, almost a month actually. What is even more interesting is that this is a premium Cydia application, with a charge of $2.

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3G Unrestrictor is the premium successor of the popular VoIPover3G app for the iPhone. It allows you to go around the iPhone’s limitations while on 3G/EDGE like no VoIP, no downloading of files bigger than 10MB from the AppStore or iTunes Store, low quality YouTube videos and no Slingplayer. It allows those things by tricking applications into believing they are on WiFi, even though they are on 3G or EDGE.  It comes with a easy to use configuration app and offers many thing the original VoIPover3G cannot do. Unrestricting your favorite application is easier than ever! This works on all iPhone models including the 3GS on Firmware 3.0 or higher. In short 3G Unrestrictor is replacement (Paid Replacement) of VoipOver3G or Tricker3G.

At present 3G Unrestrictor supports the following applications:

• Skype
• Slingplayer
• YouTube
• AppStore
• iTunes Store
• Nimbuzz
• Fring
• Truphone
• FriendCaller
• SIPphone

According to reports made by Russian site WZOR, Windows 7 was signed off this evening. In a translated quote from WZOR “This morning, Moscow time (in the United States was the evening) signed gold code release to manufacturers Windows 7 RTM:

Even last night (16 hours for MSK 16.07.2009 year), we told you about the preliminary results of a vote on the final “gold code” Windows 7 INTERNATIONAL and wondering what in the vote cast 24 votes against discussing 6.1.7600.16385.090713 build – 1255″

As usual leaked versions of both Windows 7 RTM and Windows 2008 R2 RTM are circulating but without legitimate keys I really don’t understand why people would bother? My advice would be to get yourself an MSDN or TechNet subscription (if not done so already) – PRONTO because if this information is true then subscibers may have retail copies as early as the end of the month, watch this space!

Taken from the Microsoft Exchange Blog

We have released Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 970162) to the download center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on July 28.

The majority of changes in this rollup are bug fixes. Here are a few that I would like to call out:

1. KB 969911 – This is bug likely to affect customers who have deployed the Messaging Records Management feature and have specified a storage limit for a managed folder. After a move mailbox, the property which marks the folders as managed is not preserved.
2. KB 968621 – Store stops responding under certain conditions when scheduled backup is canceled and online maintenance is in progress.
3. KB 945877 – Performance improvements to eseutil when it verifies the checksum of transaction logs.
4. Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers in the environment (Note: Exchange Server 2007 itself is not supported to be installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system.
5. KB 968715 – This bug is likely to affect customers who have deployed CAS-CAS proxying. When a user selects This is a public or shared computer or This is a private computer on the Outlook Web Access logon page, this value is not maintained  between the CAS servers when the request is proxied. This bug will most likely affect customers with Internet facing CAS sites which proxy the requests to internal sites. Now the bug was that we defaulted to private access irrespective of the option selected by the user. Outlook Web Access has the following features which allow the administrator to control access of users depending on the logon type.:
   • Public and Private Computer File Access
   • WebReady Document Viewing

After deploying this rollup, the logon type will now be correctly maintained between CAS servers if the request is proxied.
Administrators should watch out for scenarios where they have configured different behavior based on the logon type and required users to select the private computer option to access files, but users were able to access files without selecting the private computer option due to this bug. These users will now be unable to do so because we fixed the bug.

KB 970162 has more details about this release and a complete list of all fixes included in this rollup.

The release of Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is just around the corner (slated for release in this quarter). SP2 will include all fixes in this Update rollup as well as the fixes contained in all prior rollups. We’ll be posting more information on when future update rollups can be expected for Exchange 2007 SP2 as well as information about the patching improvements these rollups will bring.

Finally, I would like to call out our Exchange Software Updates forum. The forum is available to provide answers to questions about fixes contained in this rollup, help if you encounter issues when deploying the rollup, or if you just want to ask other forums users if you should take the plunge and install the rollup. We have engineers monitoring the forum to assist you.

– Exchange Customer Experience team

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Rumours are afoot that a Windows 7 build 6.1.7600.17000.win7_rtm.090717 is in existence, this as you can see suggest it was not only compiled today but also that it is RTM. Watch this space!

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