Daily Cup of Tech

Daily Cup of Tech is observing a day of silence in recognition of the victims of the Virginia Tech incident on Monday, April 30, 2007. We will continue blogging on Tuesday.  Make It Monday will return next week.

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One thing that I often struggle with is making sure that the information that I put out each day on DCoT is good and relevant content. Sometimes I find myself falling onto the “posting just to post” trap and the results are generally less than stellar. I am sometimes so afraid of losing my audience that my quality suffers because of it.

This is not a problem that Brian Desmond deals with on his blog, which I am naming the Tech Blog of the Week! He practically refuses to update his blog unless he has something valuable to contribute. This means that, for example, over the past year he has posted about 50 times (whereas DCoT pumps that out in about a month). But the stuff that he is giving up is pure IT gold. Granted, the average home user is not going to get a whole lot out of many of his posts, but if you are a Windows network admin or work with Exchange, you definitely need to spend some quality time on his site. Here is a bit of a teaser of what he is putting out:

• Script to Collect Basic Inventory Data From Machines
• Enabling the Telnet Client on Windows Vista
• Subnet Definitions in Active Directory
• How to get the Windows 2003 Admin Tools Working on Vista
• How to Authenticate against Active Directory from a Cisco PIX

Just working through his website, I have already learned a pile about some topics that I would never have considered. And, he has given me a few ideas for some posts and applications as well.

Vital Links

• Website: http://briandesmond.com
• Post Feed (RSS): http://briandesmond.com/blog/rss.aspx
• Post Feed (ATOM): http://briandesmond.com/blog/atom.aspx

If you would like to have your blog considered for the Tech Blog of the Week, feel free to submit it and you may also find yourself highlighted.

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Thanks to Barry H. for supporting the Release the Code Project this week. These fund help to keep DCoT up and running.

Barry H. has moved the DCoT Menu project within $30 of it’s release goal. I think that we will see this code made available any day now. If you would like to help donate toward this or other applications’ release, please feel free to donate on the Release the Code page.

Thanks, again, for your ongoing support. While small donations of just a few dollars may not seem like much to you, when enough of you get together and pool your money, it can have a big effect on DCoT. All financial support, regardless of how much or whether it is to Release the Code or help the Tip Jar, is all greatly appreciated.

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I am not in the practice of posting broadcast e-mails that I receive from well-meaning friends and family but I did receive one from my mother today that I thought was interesting. These are three examples of how people had their credit card information stolen. I realize that these could very well be urban myths and I can not verify if these actually happened but they do convey a very important message: Be paranoid about your credit cards!

Here are the stories and some online resources to help you protect yourself from identity theft:
Read the rest of the story…

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Video

John Mayer concert that I recently attended.

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