Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

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Security Arms Race Escalating?
A possible glimpse of things to come from Amy Babinchak on her Small Business Tech Notes blog highlights a new type of attack using x.509 certificate s that is on the increase in the USA. Amy speculates that the bad guys are beginning to escalate the...
I'm Twittering
Inspired by Richard Tubb ’s remarks , I’m Twittering . You can follow me at http://twitter.com/Tim_Long . If you know me and you’re twittering then I want to follow you. Please drop me a PM or comment here and I’ll add you. I’m not sure about twitter...
Don’t Forward Virus Warnings
Virus warnings are almost always hoaxes. Even if they’re not, forwarding the warning to your friends and colleagues can do more harm than good. My simple advice is this: press delete . Virus warnings and hoaxes are one particular flavour of chain email...
Windows Azure announced at PDC 2008
Ray Ozzie delivered the keynote speech at PDC 2008 a few moments ago. He spoke about a number of interesting topics. Challenges of Virtualization & Distributed Systems Ray suggested that business continuity is a challenge not easily addressed by small...
Windows "Cloud" is Coming...
I was fortunate to attend a Microsoft event in London today on the topic of Software plus Services, at which the keynote speaker was none other than Microsoft CEO Mr. Steve Ballmer. He was not what I expected - I was pleasantly surprised. He comes across...
The Implications of Silverlight
I saw a post by Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek about the technology being used by the Democratic National Convention to stream HD video using Silverlight technology. Well, never mind the politics, check out the technology. If you have ever, EVER seen...
Photosynth of TiGra Networks Offices
OK, this isn’t ALL my office, it’s a shared office facility in South Wales UK where I operate from most of the time. The Photosynth servers were feeling a bit better today and were allowing new synths to be created, so I ran around with Grace’s digicam...
Is Your ISP patched?
Is your ISP patched against the DNS cache poisoning ( US CERT advisory ) exploit? There are confirmed attacks in the wild . My ISP is patched. I asked them, and actually got an intelligent response. They escalated my ticket and a day later came the response...
We're Back! Better, Faster, Cheaper
New broadband installation is complete but was not without some pain. That's not really surprising as domestic providers aren't really geared up for supplying businesses. The line was swapped over by about 10am and I promptly got a text message...
Scheduled Broadband Upgrade
TiGra Networks is having a broadband upgrade this week so we'll be offline for perhaps a day while that happens. We'll be completely off the air for a while and there will be a bit of disruption while we install the new equipment and update our...
Adding Silverlight 2.0 to Community Server Blogs
Silverlight 2.0 is going to change the web so much. I've just completed an experimental blog theme for Community Server that uses a Silverlight masthead. You can view the finished result over at Grace's blog . The Silverlight masthead was created...