Red vs Blue hooray

Red vs Blue has started their 4 season proving, that yes people really do have too much time on their hands and that there is more to Halo then big guns... its got swords too.

Honey Monkey?

Okay, now I'm not a huge internet security expert but being in IT, for long enough gives you a basic understanding of what's out there. In any case I've been looking at a research project that works similar to a Honeypot; put a system out to be compromised so that you understand the vulnerability in a system or network. Well Microsoft has there own take on it which they call Honey Monkey , which in short acts like dummy user account that surfs possible malicious websites and tests whether or not they they infected with exploits. This is a very cool idea and its good to see that Microsoft is really getting serious about computer security. I personally can't wait to unleash a legion of random Honey Monkeys to see what happens but I think I'd be more entertained if there were actual monkeys playing with honey. In any case I'd like to thank the guys doing the podcast Security Now! for bring up this project and should you want more information TechWorld has an article on the project.

More Halo Machinima

You know I've been hearing a lot of things going on in the world of machinima, basically filming media in a virtual environment, like a video game. A new show This Spartan Life has been hitting a few other blogs and I've got to say that this take on talk shows is kinda cool, its definitely worth checking out. Think Red vs Blue meets late night talk shows like late night with Conan O'Brien. .

Microsoft's Worst Enemy

Okay, with all this talk about OS X coming to the x86 platform and Linux usage increasing, you'd think Microsoft would be fully concerned about this but no Microsoft's worst enemy is older versions of Windows. The bottom line is that most computer users don't upgrade because they don't see a need to upgrade because it works for them. So now Microsoft has to not only convince people not to switch operating systems but to change to there latest and greatest and with most people running older versions of Windows, hence Microsoft is a its own worst enemy.