Earlier in the week, RIM released an overview of the DST changes and issues (http://www.blackberry.com/dst2007) within most areas of the United States and Canada as well as Australia, along with information concerning their approaches to resolutions, including the mention of some patches to address the devices.
As a reminder for everyone, Daylight Saving Time in the United States and Canada (for applicable DST time zones) has been moved up to March 11 at 2:00 AM through November 4 at 2:00 AM. [...]
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Goitexpert has been following the Daylight Saving Time change for 2007 since it first popped up in 2005. The DST bug is going to cause problems for unpatched technologies. Most vendors, including Microsoft, have released patches however most smartphones & PDAs are and will not be patched any time soon. Microsoft released a registry fix and instructed the carriers to push out a patch. Most of the carriers have neglected to do so. If you rely on your Windows smartphone, you need this fix! [...]
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This March, Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes for the United States and parts of Canada and Australia, starting the time change 3 weeks early and ending it a week late. This was enacted in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. After Year 2000, IT vendors were smart enough to start using 4-digit date codes, but DST changes are still hard-coded for the 1st Sunday of April and the last Sunday of October.
To accommodate the DST change most IT systems must be patched, otherwise timestamps will be off, and some applications my fail to work. Some applications are “system time aware” and will not need to be patched, yet others require their own unique patches. [...]
You can enable Glass in Windows Vista even though you do not have a Graphics Card that does not support the extended Windows Vista Graphics extension. Follow this guide to enable the feature; [...]
The Processes tab of the Windows XP Task Manager was a confusing, barren wasteland of cryptically-named processes. If you wanted to find out which application was responsible for a certain process, all you could do was to copy down the name of the executable, and then search for it in Windows to locate it or Google it. This was an annoying process. Thankfully, Microsoft has fixed this in Vista by adding an “open file location” option when you right-click any process. [...]
Want to turn off those annoying popups asking you to Continue or Cancel. To disable UAC (User Access Controls) follow these instructions; [...]
If you don't use the Hibernation feature Windows Vista offers, it's taking up a lot of unnecessary hard drive space. The space it takes up depends on your RAM. If you have 1 GB of RAM, Hibernation uses up to 1 GB of hard drive space. [...]
Windows XP automatically updates the date and time stamp with information about the last time you accessed a file. This updating can slow down your hard drive.
Geek translation: This is a useless feature that can slow down your hard drive. [...]
Vista has automated some of its maintenance tasks like defragmenting your hard drive and backing up key system files and documents. To keep your hard drive defragged regularly, use the Start menu to click on Computer, and then right-click on the hard drive you want to schedule. [...]
If you run a Windows XP Pro or Windows Server 2003 computer and you wish to backup the system you can use a feature called Automated System Recovery (ASR).
The ASR process allows to restore the system disk (usually the C: drive) including the Windows files, all Registry settings and all user programs and data, allowing you to recover a completely crashed system. To use this procedure you must be able to boot the Windows XP Pro Setup program from the installation CD-ROM. [...]
