Back in December, Los Angeles County went live with the multi-county electronic property document recording system, SECURE. (You can read the article HERE.)

It was considered a live pilot to ensure issues were worked out and that we did not fail. At the time, we only allowed title companies to submit what are called “daily” documents. Those are documents which are not required to have a time stamp of 8:00 AM.(Title companies typically submit documents which show ownership changes early in the morning and are customarily given an 8:00 AM time stamp so that no private entity can assume title of the property before the title company’s customer on a given day.)

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Introduction

This is a review of the latest and greatest offering from Microsoft. Windows 7 is here and ready to be unpacked. I've been honestly using Win7 for some time now. For a Microsoft product, it is - well - mostly harmless. Vista came out and was supposed to right the injustices that plagued the horrendous Windows XP - poor user interface, bad support options and continual crashing. I - for one - stuck with Windows 2000 one my one home Windows machine until I could no longer find support for most of what I needed. (Windows XP was the reason I switched many of my machines over to Linux.)

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I telecommute at least one day every two weeks and need access to my corporate network. Since we use a Cisco VPN at my office, I have been using the Cisco client to connect.

However, after a recent kernel upgrade, I noticed that I got the following message when I tried to run the client:

Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.0.4 (B)
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Microsoft has just released the source for Singularity. This is the up and coming .NET based operating sytem. I downloaded and compiled it just for fun.

Wonder if it runs on Linux? :)

After exhaustive study, I have obtained a copy of the Windows Vista Kernel Source code. It appears that Microsoft has moved to utilizing more of the .net environment to handle kernel events.

Here is the kernel386 source code:

using genuineadvantage;
using propriatery.codecs;
using os2.core.modules;
using vms.core.modules;
using sun.java.core.libraries;
using apple.macintosh.gui;
using Win31.api.thunk;