June 2006 - Posts

The Robots are Loose!
20 June 06 06:04 PM | alexholy | 1 Comments   

Something completely different: Did you know there is actually a Microsoft Robotics Group? Today, at the RoboBusiness 2006 conference they announced Microsoft Robotics Studio. Microsoft Robotics Studio makes it possible to program both real world robots Read More...

Into the Lions Den: Vista @ Black Hat 2006
12 June 06 09:39 AM | alexholy | 1 Comments   

I almost overlooked it: Stephen Toulouse posted it last week in the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog : As part of our ongoing security efforts, several talks have been submitted for the Black Hat Security Conference 2006 , and a total of 5 have Read More...

Filed under: Security, Windows Vista

How to record/capture Windows Vista demos
07 June 06 10:50 AM | alexholy | 1 Comments   

Grant, working for the Platform Adoption Center, has come up with a method to capture Windows demos . Several people discovered the hard way that software-based methods can no longer capture all the GPU powered graphical greatness of the UI. Also, most Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

Follow the dots...
05 June 06 03:24 PM | alexholy | 1 Comments   

I’ve tested my recently purchased a Nikon Coolpix S5 compact digital camera. I’ve played with the Macro /Close Up feature and for testing I took a photo of a printout (done on a HP Color Laserjet 3700 ). To my astonishment, the photo cleary shows the Read More...

Filed under: Security