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Firefox 5 is out, this is not good.

Posted on June 22, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Firefox 5 is out, this is not good.

Mozzila decided to be aggressive with Firefox releases. Not a problem, just keep the old version till add-ons are all compatible. Doesn’t work that way if you want to be secure. Mozzila announced that Firefox 5 is the security update for Firefox 4. There will be no other updates unless there is a major, and…

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Ubuntu Unity: Nice Idea but…

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Ubuntu Unity: Nice Idea but…

I’ve been a fan of Ubuntu for a number of years. Over the last month I’ve been playing with version 11.04 which has unity. So here is my take on it. Being one of those who is a tech person, and always wants to find a way to hook new users onto Linux, I was…

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Computers, Linux, Reviews

Yay for things working right

Posted on May 5, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Yay for things working right

Going from Blackberry Enterprise 4.1 to Blackberry Enterprise Express 5.0.2 looks like a daunting task, but really it is not that tough. So there I was, ready to find the stash of nukes I hid somewhere. In anticipation of the migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 coming up real soon, I had to upgrade…

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Computers, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Reviews, Software

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