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Archive for the February, 2008

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I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines appear to be quite fast once they are up and running - operating system installation seems to take quite a while. The reason for this is relatively easy to explain. With Virtual Server and Virtual PC we only had emulated

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If you check specific web sites for new content on a regular basis, you can use Live Bookmarks in Firefox, which automatically delivers the most recent updates to you, without having to visit the web site. When a web feed is available from a web site, you can use Firefox to subscribe to it, as a Live

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There's been a lot of press about Microsoft's red ring problem (here, here). Estimates of the problem have been all over the map, and when he was working for Microsoft, Peter Moore referred to them as a moving target. Company estimates pinned it at a fairly normal

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Forget about MinWin and Microsoft Singularity. You can now download the open source Cosmos operating system. MinWin is of course the kernel of Windows 7, the next version of the Windows platform and the successor of Windows Vista. Throughout 2007,  Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Eric Traut and his teams have labored to strip the Windows kernel of all

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Sun is working on technology to make it easier to run different languages on the Java Virtual Machine. Called the Da Vinci Machine, the project is being described by Sun as "a multi-language renaissance for the Java Virtual Machine architecture." The project features prototype JVM extensions to run non-Java languages efficiently as

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It would be great, if you could save a Gmail conversation to read it offline? Using an email client to access Gmail using POP3 or IMAP is an option, although it's not trivial to recreate the thread and to download everything, including the attachments.To download a Gmail conversation,

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Joe Wilcox: Some Flickr users have a message for Microsoft: Get lost. Or so say, by their presence, the members of Flickr group, “Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off of Our Flickr.” When I blogged this post, the number of members was climbing towards 1,000.Flickr would be one of

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The mystery notebook got itself a name – it's called the HP Compaq 2133, and, as far as the leaked pictures reveal, the notebook will be love at first sight. According to the device's technical sheet, the ultra-mobile notebook from Hewlett-Packard will come with a scratch-resistant 8.9”

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In the January issue of TechNet Magazine, Raymond Chen discusses the Automatic Skip Driver, or ASD, feature. He decodes the history of ADS to show you what the acronym originally stood for, explores the turbulent transition into a Plug and Play world,

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Microsoft fired the latest salvo in the increasingly antagonistic document standards debate last week when the company accused IBM of orchestrating efforts to block ISO fast-track approval of Office Open XML (OOXML), a document format devised by Microsoft for its office software suite. IBM isn't taking the accusations sitting down, however, telling

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Better security is the biggest draw of Windows Server 2008, the newest server operating system from Microsoft Corp., but worries about first-version bugs top their list of concerns, according to a recent survey.Of the nearly 800 IT decision makers polled by CDW Corp., 49% cited security features as the benefit of most

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Better security is the biggest draw of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's recently-launched operating system. However, IT pros are also worried about first-version bugs bedevilling the system, which is due for official release next Wednesday. That's according to a survey from US reseller CDW, which surveyed 800 tech decision makers. Of these, 49 percent cited security features

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Ken Hinckley always thought that searching for information on his computer was like going on a fishing expedition. Every so often, he’d even catch whatever it was he wanted.Hinckley, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research Redmond, has been netting better results than usual lately.

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Microsoft notes that "To avoid this problem, install update 937287 separately from all other updates." The 937287 update is available here (x86) (x64).Although Microsoft Corp. has yet to fix an update that sent some Windows Vista machines into endless reboots, today it spelled out several workarounds users can

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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 might very well deliver users from the Reduced Functionality Mode black screen of death kill switch, but the prerequisite updates for the service pack are doing a wonderful job at cutting access to the operating system. Following Microsoft's monthly patch cycle non-security updates released on February 12, 2007, containing two of

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