News
- No more Pownce after the 15th of December
- PepsiStuff promotion ends December 31st. Enter and redeem your points by then or they're gone forever.
- China's .cn domain takes the number two spot according to VeriSign.
- Firefox 2.0 to lose phishing detection.
- Need Some holiday music? Pandora has Classical Christmas, Rockin Holidays, Swinging Christmas, Jazz Holidays, or a Country Christmas.

Interesting
Zombie Movie fans are in for a treat with a set of campaigns based on "Dawn of the Dead" for Left 4 Dead. From l4dMods.com. Here's a video on Giant Bomb.com.
Need some free sounds? Check out FreeSound.Org.

Stalker Video?

Mike's Note
I'm sure that by now you've heard that Exchange server 2007 is only 64 bit. Of course you know that there's a 32bit version for evaluation, but it's not supported in production, but comes in pretty handy if you're extending the schema. What I wasn't aware of is that Exchange Server 2007 won't install on Windows Server 2008 unless you have the installation media with SP1 integrated.

You'll get an error that "Exchange 2007 cannot be used with the version of Windows operating system running on this computer".

Computer History
November 20th, 1955 - Ray Ozzie is Born
November 21st, 1969 - First Arpanet Link put into Service
November 22nd, 1985 - Apple Shares Mac Interface with Microsoft
November 23rd, 1992 - Business Week Predicts Computer Industry "On the Skids"
November 25th, 1997 - Pixar's "A Bug's Life" and "Geri's Game" is released.

News
Spam plummets by 40% (ComputerWorld) (Techdirt)
Intel Launches the Core i7 (ZDNet)
Left 4 dead - Comes out Dec 18th.

Interesting
Earl Commercial

This week's Topic / Our segments

Mike - Server 2008 Migration Woes?
Mike Loves RoboCopy
Know your FSMO roles - Understanding FSMO Roles
Some good links at the bottom, let's you know how to tell who has the roles, and how to seize them.

Computer History
October 1, 1954 - IBM Announces Model 705 Computer
October 2, 1955 - ENIAC Computer Retired
October 3, 1950 - Transistor Inventors Receive Patent
October 5, 1996 - Supercomputer Pioneer Cray Dies in Auto Accident
October 6, 1983 - Lotus Development Goes Public
October 7, 1988 - The Computer Bowl Begins

News
- Apple's Patching is a Mess - ComputerWorld
- Apple Finally Patches that pesky DNS Exploit - NY Times
Yes, we're a little late to report this, but I just heard about it. Yes, everyone else patched their systems like 4 months ago. To be fair, Apple did release a patch at the end of July, only 3 months after everyone else, of course it didn't work.
Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support

This weeks topic: Fourteen Geek Movies you must see (In no particular order)

• Matrix
• Hick Trek
• Hackers
• Star Wars (Of Course)
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  
• Serenity
• Anything Monty Python
• Gattica
• Transformers
• Back to the Future
• Office Space
• Independence Day
• Alien Movies
• Tron
  

What's Up?
Watched a Star Wars Clone Wars Series pre-release Thanks to House Party.
Art repairs one computer, but not another one.

Computer History
24th 30th

- September 24th, 1986 - Computer Maker Honeywell seeks a partner.
- September 25th, 1989 - IBM Announces "Micro Channel Architecture".
- September 27th, 1996 - Hacker Kevin Mitnick indicted on Charges.
- September 28th, 1925 - Supercomputer Pioneer Seymour Cray is Born.
- September 29th, 1994 - HotJava Demonstrated at Sun Microsystems

News
New Microsoft Commercials - Seinfeld part 2 and "I'm a PC".
Lego Batman is coming on September 23rd!
Star Wars Clone Wars series starts on Oct 3
Wrath of the Lich King release data announced. November 13th, 2008. Next installment of World of Warcraft.
EA addresses players concerns about the game.

MS drops Seinfeld ads.

Promo
The Nut Gallery - Movie Reviews
http://thenutgallery.com/

This Weeks Topic: Backup strategies for the home and office.

For the home:

• Windows Backup
• DeltaCopy
• SyncBack
• Cobian Backup
• DriveImage XML
• Jungle Disk - Online from Amazon

For the office:

• BackupPC

• Backup Servers vs Agents
• Disk to tape
• disk to disk
• disk to disk to tape.