Back again this year a super discount for Students on Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate!

You must have a valid e-mail address at an educational institution ending with the domain suffix .EDU (ie, leina@contoso.edu) OR have a valid email address at one of the educational institutions listed here.
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You must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.

In an effort to get more businesses using Open License/Open Value where businesses download the media from Microsoft servers and receive no “retail box” of the product Microsoft has released its latest OS in a new, “Ship By Freight Only” packaging. The average weight if the Premium version is just over 150lbs and almost 5 feet long requiring two typical users just to move the box and exceeding the shipping limits for UPS or FedEx.

Hope you don’t need to ask if I’m joking…

Be aware of another UPS notification type email with a payload. This time it’s an attachment, Georgia.zip, with a subject line of “Journalists shot in Georgia” or variation of. I have seen a dozen alerts of these being blocked from one site alone in the past hour.

Didn't know this was out till today but if your looking to access your Live Mesh Folders from a Smartphone or other mobile device all you need to do is browse to http://m.mesh.com . Not only can you use this from your mobile phone but you can also use this from your PC as a lightweight Live Mesh. This can be handy if your remote to the system your accessing the Live Mesh Desktop with and those fancy graphics are killing your connection.

Granted the interface is limited but that's the idea right?

Ok they finally added what should have been there from the beginning. You can now set each folder to sync to which device including telling it to not sync to the Live Desktop. Now you can keep those music folders synced across PC’s but not store them online or your QuickBooks can now be pushed to multiple PC’s but not send Microsoft a copy, just in case you don’t trust them.

Directory of Microsoft Team Blogs has been published.

If your websites are formatting all wrong or j=not at all remove KB 953838 and I bet they start working again.

You probably have not noticed but in case you are a Usenet user you can no longer access Usenet via your Road Runner Account.

The lie is that they stopped this service because of low usage which for one makes no sense and two it is contrary to their public statements and the facts. The truth is they saw a chance to reduce services and cost, exposure to political pressure as well as limit potential legal threats by using a broad hand to slash the entire Usenet service and not filter or govern it's use. The EFF has posted on the subject as a violation of First Amendment rights but unless they are going to file a case what user of RR is going to take them to court? While I completely agree that Time Warner went to far and did not do this to stop child pornography I don't think anyone could make the argument in court that Usenet access provided by your ISP is a First Amendment right as there are far to many other sources for you to voice your opinions including third party providers of Usenet. The argument I think you could make is that Time Warner has violated the contract with their users in no longer providing a service which they were and still are billing for. As there has been no reduction in my bill from Time Warner yet they have reduced the service provided you could easily make the argument but would you win, well let me know ;)

BTW absent from the above list of Usenet providers is Giganews which has long been known as the Usenet Provider of choice as it has very fast downloads, a very long retention rate on post and probably the reason it's not listed is they offer accounts that are both encrypted and bypass any Time Warner bandwidth caps which have long rumored to exist for Usenet. In case your wanting your Usenet back Giganews is offering a special for Time Warner / RR customers.