In August of 2005, the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act. The Energy Policy Act changes the start dates and the end dates of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007 and end one week later on November 4, 2007. These dates are referred to in this article as the "extended DST period."

Please visit www.vismea.com/daylightSavings

for instructions on how to update your computer and servers.

On Friday February 16th (End of business day) until Sunday February 19th, we will be upgrading the servers that host your websites and email. During the transfer, the website and email may be unavailable for up to 24 hours, however we have taken steps to minimize this downtime.


If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to call,

A critical bug in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser also affects users of the Outlook 2003 e-mail client, making it much more serious than previously thought.

The vulnerability can be triggered when IE or Outlook 2003 processes Web-based graphics code written in the Vector Markup Language (VML).

We recommend all our clients do the following until Microsoft has released an update to the problem:


To turn on the Read all standard mail in plain text option, follow these steps:
1. Start Outlook 2003.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. On the Preferences tab, in the E-mail area, click E-mail Options.
4. In the Message handling area, click to select the Read all standard mail in plain text check box.

As of May 24th, 2006, A new version of the Webmail is available for use.

The interface has been completely redesigned as it is now more user friendly, easy to manage and use, and more efficient than the current interface. You can now change your password, SPAM settings and auto-responder reply options.

On May 7th, 2006
VISMEA introduced vGo, pronounced 'vego', a near real-time monitoring system of Toronto's 401 highway. The online app uses Ontario's COMPASS system that provides live video feeds of key points along Toronto's 401 Highway amongst other major highways and the Google Maps API, an extendible interface of the popular Google Maps.

vGo is in beta testing and available for preview here.

VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 End of Support March 31, 2005.

We recommend that all our clients install Bitdefender Professional 9 , and Zonealarm Security Suite 6.1


For any questions, please contact us directly.

Once known as simple little gizmos that were basically just modern replacements for floppy disks, USB flash drives have suddenly grown up. You can now replicate your desktop environment, encrypt files on the fly, and even rescue your PC with one of these formerly modest devices. Here are some of the coolest things you can do today with the innocuous-looking thumb drive on your desk, as well as details about some particularly useful new drives.

http://johnhaller.com/jh/development/

McAfee will discontinue support of their Virusscan 7 Enterprise. This means that the program will no longer automatically accept new DAT updates.

The date for this change will be between March 2006-June 2006