http://www.jonathanroberts.eu Ramblings on technology, current affairs and other topics that enter my mind Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:13:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is December 31, 2006. Besides being New Year's Eve, it is also the day that Windows Defender leaves beta (apparently). I uninstalled the beta and attempted to install the latest version. I quickly found out that MS does not allow it to be installed on a Windows version below ... http://www.jonathanroberts.eu/?p=8 For the past year or so, I have been experimenting with Voice Over IP (often abbreviated as VOIP or VoIP). I have tested a number of providers, services and hardware solutions. Over time, I plan to cover many of these in more detailed posts. For this post, ... http://www.jonathanroberts.eu/?p=7 (This was first posted on Usenet under microsoft.public.cert.mcdba and microsoft.public.cert.itpro.mcts on 12/24/2006). I am happy to report that I took and passed the 70-431 exam Friday. It was not easy by any stretch but I did better than I thought I would. I know when I was ... http://www.jonathanroberts.eu/?p=6 A few months back, I begin beta testing Office 2007. Overall, I like it very much. There is an option in Outlook 2007 to add "instant search". It seemed like a good idea, so I chose to install it. I didn't know that this actually installs ... http://www.jonathanroberts.eu/?p=5 For those of you (us, I suppose) who care, it's been a busy few days at Microsoft. They have put out a number of MAJOR releases in the past 7-10 days. Both Vista and Office 2007 were released to manufacturing. For the admins of the world, they also released ... http://www.jonathanroberts.eu/?p=4 I have resisted the urge to have a blog for a few months now... I thought at first that it was silly. After all, who cares what I think? And would I really have anything to say? However, I have read a lot of blogs over ... http://www.jonathanroberts.eu/?p=3