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Bill Gates sat down with Jon Stewart of the Daily Show for an interview regarding the release of Vista. It’s nothing to exciting but pretty funny to watch. I was hoping Jon would put Bill on more of a hot seat. Oh well….

If you would like to see and experience Windows Vista but not quite ready to commit (I understand) you can do so at this site. You can also give the new Office 2007 a try as well. A great way to see what it’s all about easily.

Well if you run Windows 2000 server you may want to take notice. Microsoft has stated that they will not be offering a patch for the new US Daylight Saving Time for Windows 2000 and earlier. Only customers with an extended support agreement can get a Hotfix from Microsoft. Never fear though. IntelliAdmin has an unofficial patch that will correct the problem using information taken from a Microsoft KB article. They have two versions and one of them allows you to remotely update machines on your network. Very nice. Check out some of their other applications while you’re there. They have utilities to enable remote desktop remotely on a machine and to remotely disable USB and CDROM drives. Good stuff.

This one is funny as can be and just as embarrassing. It seems Verizon and most of the people working there are unable to distinguish the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars. You can read the article here about a guy who was quoted the .002 cent rate for data service but was billed at .002 dollars. You can listen to a recording here of him trying to explain it to several people at Verizon and none of them ever get it. We certainly need to improve math in our schools, no question about it.

This is an interesting read of how the footage of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon in 1969 was not what it should have been. Apparently the raw footage looked great but what the world saw was of a much worse quality. Now the original engineers involved with making the camera as well as transmitting the video are looking for the original tapes. Here is the best part…..NASA lost them!

hey I have come across a nice and free tool for remote system shutdown. Not only that but it can work with WOL (Wake On LAN) as well. It gets better. The tool is actually designed to force group policy update. You can read all about it as welll as get your free copy here.