As most people know, Microsoft has set a product life cycle for most, if not all of it's products. I won't go into the evils that Microsoft forces it's customer through to keep the cash flowing, but it is necessary to remind everyone that these lifecycles affect everyone who uses Microsoft and Windows related products. There are three milestones that Windows users need to keep in mind that are coming fast.

Well, I got a little lazy and wasn't able to keep up on my one blog per month standard. So this month I decided to drop two blogs in for the month. Who knows? I could add a third  ...

To support my presentation for this coming week's CEBUG meeting, I thought it would be best to reinforce some of my comments for those who were at the meeting and wanted some of the links, and specific information I gave in the presentation.

A bill has been placed on the House floor that requires that ISPs and wireless access point operators keep and maintain logs of Internet access for a minimum of two years. Aimed at the efforts to track down child porn traders, terrorists, and whoever else would fall under it's guidelines, this bill on the surface would seem to be a powerful weapon in tracking and bringing to justice these miscreants.

I thought I'd use this space to followup on my meeting presentations and make some "between meeting" comments about PCs, software and the industry in general. I'll reserve my comments and help for the help forum and the other forums on this list. 

The website for the PSI software I mentioned at the last CEBUG meeting is: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/