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Are you already using Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

  This question may sound silly, but I believe not everyone is on SP2 yet. I happen to be using a friend's workstation and discovered I couldn't install Microsoft's SQL Management Studio (SQL Server 2005). The main reason was because the workstation had only SP1 installed. Unable to do my work; totally disappointed, I was! Why upgrade? Microsoft gave us many reasons such as Proactive Protection, Compatibility, Improved Manageability, Windows Firewall, Blocking Pop-ups, Internet Explorer, Updates, Wireless, and more new technologies. The few features I find useful: Windows Firewall - I believe this is the most useful. Remember the Blaster worm a few years back? If you had your ...

Tags: download, microsoft, Service-Pack, SP2, Upgrade, Vista, Windows, Windows-XP

Written by Felix Ker on April 19th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Email spam - It doesn’t pay to be kind [2]

Last month, I did something really foolish. Actually it wasn't foolish until I saw the contents inside my mailbox today. To boost the morale of my friends participating in Imagine Cup and to show my support, I repeatedly voted for them on http://www.imaginecup.com.sg. An email is required along with a name, so I entered many email addresses with 'catch-all' enabled to 1 mailbox. To play safe, I used all valid emails, few hundreds of them. I logged into few emails today. I've got the same repeated email from Microsoft's Imagine Cup Team. OMG! The content below was what I got in my mailboxes, ...

Tags: email, email_address, imagine-cup, imaginecup, JonShonRonVon, microsoft, ntuc, rsvp, silverlight, singapore, singapore_idols, spam, win_a_xbox

Written by Felix Ker on June 8th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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