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Windows 10 End-of-Life: One Week Left – What Now?

If you’re still running Windows 10, this concerns you. In exactly one week, on October 14, Microsoft will officially send Windows 10 to oblivion (and, as a side-effect, millions of PCs to waste). What does this mean? No more security updates, no bug fixes, no technical support. For an operating system that has been running on millions of devices worldwide for a decade, this is a significant moment.

UK Police to launch AI-based Crime Prevention – Minority Report getting real ?

In the middle of last summer, the UK government announced a new initiative to leverage artificial intelligence and data analytics for preventing crime before it occurs. This project, termed the “Concentrations of Crime Data Challenge,” aims to develop advanced mapping technology to enhance public safety across England and Wales.
Is AI the right path for safer streets ? And what about other examples of crime prevention systems ?

The Swiss e-ID: Navigating Digital Identity, Technology, and Public Trust

In September this year, the Swiss citizens are going to vote for or against an e-ID Act aiming at proposing an electronic version of the ID card. But, how does it work ? What are the criticisms ? This blog post provides several answers to these questions

Microsoft lost its key !

In May and for a couple of month, Microsoft saw a token-theft attack impacting its email services.
This was caused by an expired private key that leaked and had fallen in the hand of the storm-0558 group who take advantage to get access to email accounts of an FCEB agency working for the US government

I moved….

Some History This website, and the blog, has been online since 2002 !Yes, 21 years that the domain was registered, and the website and the blog with it available online.The very first version of it was built on some home-made CMS, that was barely working and really...

DeployR Enterprise 8.0.5 – Some Configuration Hurdles

Currently having some Linux machines on which DeployR Enterprise 8.0.5 must be deployed, I faced a nice bug in the DeployR configuration utility. First, I started to deploy a "Microsoft R Server on Linux??? from the Azure marketplace. The setup is rather simple, and...

Preparing a public speech

I am quite used to give public speeches, as multiple times I was speaker at conferences or internal meetings. But, several weeks ago, the speech I gave had mainly 2 objectives : giving an overview of IBIS, and, promoting our internal Toastmasters club. For this...

Meeting minutes issue

How many meetings do you attend ?From that number of attended meeting, do you read the minutes you receive ? Then, imagine that the meeting minutes are sent several days after the meeting took place, as a e-mail's attachment. Chances are that you will not even open...

Setting the local draft folder for Open Live Writer

The 9th of december last year (announcements on Scott Hanselman blog and the .NET foundation), Windows Live Writer became Open Live Writer and at the same time became open source through the .NET Foundation. For different licensing and complexity hurdles, several...

Error when opening Zachman Framework Example model in EA

After the install of the Zachman Framework MDG Add-in for Sparx Enterprise Architect, there is an issue when we want to open the provided sample, ZF Example. EA complains that it "couldn't lock file". One way to successfully open this file is to run EA as an...

How to get the ID of a SharePoint Term without code

Recently, I had several times the request to get the GUID of a term in a SharePoint Term Store. And, unless you have access to the package that deployed the terms, you need to use PowerShell or write a quick console app to get them. Unfortunately, I didn't have access...

2015 : A Year of Changes

It's been quite a while, but no, this blog is not dead. Indeed, the last post was written at the last SharePoint Conference, which was a great one, once again. From that time, a lot have evolved, being in the community, the approach adopted by Microsoft regarding...

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