A few updated baby pictures

I've skimmed through the gigabytes of pictures we have now, and updated our Picassa photo album with a few of them.

Windows 7 RC1 - Coming soon ... to a computer near you?

One more day to wait until everyone can get their hands on a copy of the latest operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7.  Microsoft has posted on the Windows 7 website that the download will be publicly available until July. That should allow all an ample amount of time to get their hands on RC1 and run it through their loops.

Advertised heavily as being "faster [and], more reliable", there is a significant amount of interest in this major upgrade to the Windows platform. As many blogs and news sites continue to publish very impressive stats, the anxious early adopters leverage the Torrent sites that are already thrashing with various releases.

This has to be a big WIN for Microsoft, especially in the desktop OS arena since Vista was/is so unpopular in the enterprise IT market as well as the home user groups.  Vista has left a bitter taste in the mouths of IT Managers, and professionals alike. While this is looking like a very promising platform, I doubt you will see it showing up on your corporate PC any time soon, once released.

As a recent Mac convert, I do not see myself changing stripes again but I will certainly be downloading a copy of Windows 7 tomorrow, firing up VMWare Fusion, and taking it for a spin. Let's hope Microsoft learned from the Beta release of Windows 7 that brought the farm to a stand still and scaled up/out their infrastructure in anticipation of another massive surge in traffic.

Sync your LDAP with Google Enterprise Apps

Yes, it has been a *long* time since my last post. What can I say? I have been busy.


Anyhow, as I was plowing through slews of blog posts through Google Reader, I came across an exciting (for some) post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog. Today, Google announced that wrapped into their   Google Apps Premier, Education and Partner Edition solutions lives Google Apps Directory Sync.


What does this mean? You will be able to automatically provision users and groups based on the user data in your LDAP server, such as Microsoft Active Directory or Lotus Domino. Google Apps Directory Sync connects to your Google Apps account and adds/deletes user accounts to match your existing organizational schema.


I'm pretty excited to try that out! Check out the full blog post here.

Holy sh!t. I didn't mean to send that! Undo!

I'm sure just about everyone out in Ether has done this at one time or another... typed up an email and slammed the send button... then realizing a mistake or typo or had some additional time to reflect on their misjudgment. How in the world can I get that back? Some corporate messaging infrastructures allow you to recall you message, and if you want replace it with something else. Now, it looks like GMail is stepping up to the plate and doing something similar by holding the message for 5 seconds giving you the final opportunity to slam the car in park. And the reverse. More on the Official Gmail blog here.

BabyFleming.com goes live!

We I thought it would be a great idea to use a blog to share pictures & musings of our baby, thus the launch of babyfleming.com. Clearly, I took some flack from the Mommy-to-be, as well as many friends. Meh! Who cares! :)

Bye bye Facebook... how to permenantly delete your Facebook account

How to permenantly delete your Facebook account....

After this last episode with Facebook's TOS entitling them to essentially do whatever they want with pictures of you, your family, etc, etc, I have nuked my account from completely.   From theconsumerist.com:

"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. "

Even though they back-peddled two days after the uproar, I've had enough. Obviously a lot of other people did too as there are many posts out there just like this one.

Hidden somewhere in the application is a method to delete your account, not just deactivate it.  Please note that this will remove everything for good.

Hulu in Canada and more!

I came across a slick little GNU licensed tool that runs on your Mac called Understudy. It allows access to streaming video through the Front Row interface of Mac OS X and currently supports Hulu and NetFlix.

The trick is to get it to work in Canada; enter Hotspot Shield. I posted about this little tool in the past and am doing so again. After a quick download and install, I was popped behind a US IP address quickly. Fired up Front Row and was watching The Office on Hulu in no time.