The week has scarcely begun and I am swamped. I am preparing the last hardware in a 3-month hardware deployment project this week. I am getting to grips with Wordpress theming at home. And last but not least, my brother-in-law has signed me up for the 50km MTN OFM Mountain Bike Race in Bloemfontein this weekend.

Guess who has not been playing much games this week?  read more »

Actually, we should probably not be surprised.

Windows 7, the latest incarnation of the famous (infamous?) operating system by Microsoft, has been cracked.

The system was scheduled to go on sale on 22 October 2009.

This means that pirates will have the latest version of Windows 7 Ultimate long before most consumers have bought a copy off the shelves.  read more »

My father-in-law to be was chatting to me today when we came upon the topic of viruses (virii?). Interesting enough, he made quite a good point today.

Viruses are abusing the OS's and the programs etc, not ONLY because of security vulnerabilities but also because they are supposed to be able to!

Think about it.

When VBScript was first designed it was designed as a scripting language that could help you automate a lot of tasks inside Windows.  read more »