Vista Screenshots

MSBLOG has screenshots of the latest build of Windows Vista.

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Windows

It all about the network

Here are two items to geek out to. First is the Internet Health Report that reports the current latency of backbone carriers. Second is a very cool, but very big map of the Internet Backbone for North America from CIO.com. It wold make a great poster.

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Internet

Dual Core

I agree with Alex Scoble. We do need dual core. Alex says:

The short answer, in my opinion, particularly in a business setting, is an emphatic yes!

Why? Dual CPU systems are good for anyone who needs to multitask on their system. As businesses require employees to do more and run more applications at once, multi-CPU systems will be a big help.

The shocker is many people claim the Apple MacBook Pro is the fastest Windows XP Core Duo notebook. This information isn't from some Mac fanboy. It's from PC Magazine.

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Law Firm IT, Windows, Apple, Intel

Office 2007 Delayed

Like Windows Vista, Office 2007 has been delayed until 2007.

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Law Firm IT, Windows

First-year law students protest laptop ban

USA Today reports a University of Memphis law professor has banned laptops from her class. Students protest.

Is IT a Dead-End Career?

Robert L. Mitchell at COMPUTERWORLD says, "IT has gotten a bad rap that hurts its reputation as a top-notch career path."

Follow the discussion on Slashdot.

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Law Firm IT

No Windows Vista Until 2007

Microsoft has delayed the release of Windows Vista until 2007. Windows Vista was originally promised for the second half of 2006.

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Windows

You might need new hardware to run Exchange 12

Alex Scoble revisits the 64 bit is requirement for Exchange 12.

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Exchange

I Heart Tech on IT love

Adriana asks Have You Hugged Your Tech Team Today?

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Law Firm IT

Catching up

I'm days behind reading other blogs.

Here are some posts that caught my attention today:

the [non]billable hour: That Giant Sucking Sound Could be Your PowerPoint Slides

Adam Smith, Esq.: Calling All CIO's

excited utterances: Law Firms Appoints a KM Partner

Law.com: Case Management Software Can Be a Small Firm's Best Friend

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Law Firm IT, KM, CM

Screenshots of Office 2007

TechRepublic has some interesting screenshots of he new interface in Microsoft Office 2007. This is a major interface change that not all users are going to like.

Via Digg

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Law Firm IT, Windows

The Enemy Within

Here's an interesting article from The Age that says that many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats.

The key to keeping your network safe from the very people who make use of it is user education. Other step include locking down the network as much as possible with tool like Windows policies, having good and up-to-date back-ups, and having a plan on how to clean up any unwanted or dangerous program or behavior a user might inflict on your network.

Via Slashdot

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Security

Taxonomy of legal blogs project

3L Epiphany is blogging for credit at OSU. One of his project is compiling a list of blawgs to create a taxonomy of legal blogs. I didn't make it, but Steve at SW Virginia law blog did.

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Blogging, Blawgs

More trouble for RIM?

Jeff Beard at LAWTECH GURU BLOG has an interesting post and points to an New York Times story about the challenges facing RIM and the BlackBerry platform now that the patent case with NTP has been settled.

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RIM, Blackberry, NTP

Law Firm Websites

Dennis Kennedy has a number of great tips on how to build a more useful and usable law firm website. Dennis is always a good read, and I don't link to him enough.

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Law Firm IT, Law Firm Marketing

InterAction for Law Firms

We have all heard the buzzwords surrounding law firm software today. Here's another one: Customer Relationship Management. Legal software giant LexisNexis has a CRM solution called InterAction. They claim 60% of the AmLaw 100 are using InterAction.

InterAction centralizes a firm's collective knowledge, wisdom and experience about clients and contacts, and makes it available to all authorized users — from attorneys and marketing professionals to administrators and secretaries. Every client interaction becomes an opportunity to market additional services, provide better client service, or simply reinforce a relationship. And with "ethical wall" security, InterAction protects confidential information — whether it's the entire relationship, or specific information such as private phone numbers or notes from a privileged conversation.

Sounds amazing.

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Law Firm IT, CRM

New kid on the block making large inroads

In the local market there are a couple of dominate case management and document management products. The field is rapidly changing as new players take more of the market share. One that recently caught my attention is Hummingbird who makes an Enterprise Content Management system that is seeing a growing install base in law firms.

They claim 70% of the AmLaw 100 use Hummingbird Solutions. That's nothing to sneeze at.

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Law Firm IT, KM, CM, DM

Deletion of files on an employer issued laptop ruled hacking

On March 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled deleting personal files from an employer issued laptop using a secure file deletion utility violated federal hacking laws. CNET News.com has the story and links to the opinion written by Judge Posner.

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Security

Tips for Evaluating E-Discovery Vendors

Dennis Kennedy, Evan Schaeffer and Tom Mighell have a few Practical Tips for Evaluating E-Discovery Vendors and Providers.

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Law Firm IT, E-Discovery, Blawgs

What's new in Vista

The Lazyadmin.com has a series of post on what's new in Windows Vista.

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Law Firm IT, Windows, Security

SharePoint as a DMS?

Got shells? has a couple of interesting post on SharePoint: Property Promotion/Demotion aka metadata in Sharepoint, and Sharepoint as a DMS.

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Law Firm IT, SharePoint

It's been a busy few weeks

It's has been another busy, busy week here in the server room. I'm sorry for the lack of posting. I wanted my readers to know that this blog isn't dead, and I promise I will post here more.

Look for new posts in the evenings, at lunchtime, and on the weekend. I'm too busy to blog from work, and my employer isn't paying me to blog. Where did all my free time go?

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Law Firm IT

A directory of Web 2.0 projects

Last week I found a directory of Web 2.0 projects. There are more than 900 listings in more than 50 categories. It has been one of the most popular bookmarks on del.icio.us for the past few day.

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Web. 2.0, del.icio.us

Security and the human factor

Alex Scoble says remember "the human factor" when planning security.

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Law Firm IT, Security

Sharepoint Primer

Want to learn about running SharePoint? The Lazyadmin has a primer. You can install Sharepoint Services comes free on Windows Server 2003.

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Windows, Server 2003, SharePoint

Windows Vista and Prolaw

Got shells? is running Windows Vista beta 2. The good news, he says, is it runs Prolaw.

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Law Firm IT, Prolaw

RIM settles with NTP for $612 million

CNN.com is reporting RIM has reached a deal with NTP that averts a shutdown.

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RIM, Blackberry, NTP