Archive for October 11th, 2007
Oct
11
One of Intel's gaming gurus has put finger to keypad and come up with a blog entry on how Intel's multi-core CPUs could mean the final days for GPUs.
The crux of the argument is that ray-tracing is the future of video game graphics. Whilst GPUs are great rasterisation cores, CPUs are more suited to ray-tracing.
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Oct
11
FxCop is a code analysis tool that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines.David Kean: I'm pleased to announce that we've released a beta of the next version of FxCop. This release has a number of changes since FxCop 1.35, including, but not limited to, the following:
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Oct
11
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 (IEAK 7) enables the most efficient way to deploy and manage Web-based solutions. Learn how to tailor a custom browser to meet your customer's needs.
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Oct
11
Nintendo has launched a new firmware update for the Wii, adding among other things support for USB keyboard input.
The update finally allows users to use any USB keyboard to enter text in the Wii's Internet browser. A few other adjustments have been made to the console's Web surfing functionality.
Users can now send links to other Wii
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Oct
11
The Microsoft Unified Communications AJAX Software Development Kit (SDK) includes documentation and sample applications of the AJAX Service API (application programming interface) for cross-platform Unified Communications application development. Also included are Presence and Instant Messaging JavaScript controls for embedding into web pages.
You can use the SDK to programmatically access the functionality of your Office Communications Server
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Oct
11
IBM is looking to make it easier to monitor energy consumption within its mainframe computers.Starting Oct. 11, Big Blue is launching a new program—dubbed a "mainframe gauge"—for customers of its System z9 mainframes that will allow them to monitor and collect statistics on the amount of energy their mainframes' systems use in a typical
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Oct
11
The Forefront Security Team just launched a new blog about all things Forefront, including: Forefront Client Security, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, and Forefront Sever Security for SharePoint. Find news about product updates, what the Forefront team is seeing in the latest security threats, and deployment tips for customers.
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Oct
11
Google has received a patent from the USPTO for the concept of a "mobile datacenter" stored in a standard shipping container and equipped with multiple racks of high-powered servers with its own internal cooling system.The patent, which was originally filed on December 30, 2003, by Google employees William H. Whitted and Gerald
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Oct
11
Matt Cutts, in this week in the Google Webmaster Help Google Groups thread has made a “Popular Pick” post on the Appropriate Use of the NoFollow attribute and how Google treats that tag, but does not get much into the heated debate of the moment, NoFollow and paid links.
Here are some highlights from Matt’s explanation:
NoFollow
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Oct
11
At the DVD Forum conference in Universal City, CA, Warner Home Video announced that it will release the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD with a bit of extra content. The DVD will contain two additional versions of the latest installment in the Harry Potter series: one for viewing on a PC
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Oct
11
The old cliché "You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you" turns out to apply quite nicely to the world of P2P file-sharing. A trio of intrepid researchers from the University of California-Riverside decided to see just how often a P2P user might be tracked by content owners. Their startling conclusion: "naive" users
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Oct
11
Rafael, Woke up this morning to a Windows log in screen? Swear you set that option "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them"? We did too.
In what appears to be a major glitch at Microsoft, Windows users are trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded and installed updates
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Oct
11
NetResView is a small utility that displays the list of all network resources (computers, disk shares, and printer shares) on your LAN. As opposed to "My Network Places" module of Windows, NetResView display all network resources from all domains/workgroups in one screen, and including admin/hidden shares.
NetResView doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. In order
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Oct
11
Amazon this week unveiled a new service level agreement (SLA) that it said guarantees that customers using its hosted Simple Storage Service (S3) will receive at least 99.9% uptime each month.
If the S3 service fails to meet that level of service, Amazon will provide service credits to qualified users, said Adam Selipsky,
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Oct
11
If you own a WordPress.com blog, you can now embed links directly from Answers.com from within your editing interface with AnswerLink. Answers.com is an information and definition accumulation site that gets its information from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary and they also provide the default definitions for Google.com in their
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