Archive for February 5th, 2008


Feb 5

No Flickr of Hope!

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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Feb 5

Windows Home Server: How to install Add-ins?

You’ve bought a Windows Home Server (WHS), now every PC on your network is backed up, you can access shared folders from any PC and stream music and video, as well as show holiday snaps on your TV. Your digital life couldn’t be looking much brighter!  By using Add-ins for Windows Home Server you can enhance
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Feb 5

Drag & drop with Real Desktop “remember BumpTop?”

Do you remember “BumpTop”, a 3D desktop buzzed around the Internet back in 2006? A prototype was supposed to be available “soon,” and the middle of last year we were awestruck once again when BumpTop was demonstrated at the TED Conference, and is still not avilable for download. Here comes “Real Desktop” to give your ordinary desktop new
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Feb 5

Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update v2 – KB943302

Install this update to resolve a set of known application compatibility issues with Windows Vista. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.This is a Customer Preview Release. At the conclusion of this preview phase, the final version of the update will be released via Windows Update. This update is
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Feb 5

Xbox 360 Elite Laptop

Benjamin Heckendorn (aka Ben Heck) is known to most of the geek world as a console modding god. And his latest accomplishment, squeezing an Xbox 360 Elite into a laptop, is his best revision yet. Because while he's made 360 laptops before, this is his
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Feb 5

GPU-Z 0.1.6

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
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Feb 5

Group Policy: Inside ADM and ADMX Templates

If you work with Group Policy, you're probably familiar with ADM files.  But how much do you really know about them?  And now there is the new ADMX format to become familiar with.  In the January issue of TechNet Magazine, Jeremy Moskowitz
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Feb 5

MCS Sequencing Guidelines

Additional guidance on Sequencing with Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS).  These people work day in and day out with our customers on some pretty interesting scenarios and have create this guide based on their experiences.  It covers some of the basics on how to setup a sequencing station, some Sequencing examples as well
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Feb 5

Windows Vista: Slow or hanging logon scripts

When you are in the process of implementing Windows Vista in an enterprise environment, you may run into the following situation: You have a logon script that writes a file to disk or queries AD with ADSI. For no apparent reason the script hangs for minutes before it finishes without any error message. On further investigation
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Feb 5

Windows Vista SP1 kills “2099 Grace Timer Crack and OEM BIOS Hack”

The Windows Vista free ride is officially over. The first service pack for the latest Window client brings only bad news for Vista pirates. Essentially, Windows Vista SP1 is the killer of the 2099 Grace Timer Crack and the OEM BIOS hack. With the first service pack for the operating system, Microsoft is claiming back Vista
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Feb 5

Repair work begin to critical undersea data cables

Two of the four undersea cables that provide data to much of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia which were severed late last week are now undergoing repair. Reuters reported today that FALCON, the third of the cables to be cut on Friday evening, is currently being repaired. FLAG telecom's repair team was at first delayed in
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Feb 5

Speex 1.2 Beta 3

Speex is specially designed for compressing voice at low bit-rates. It is an audio codec designed especially for voice signals and providing good narrowband and wideband quality. It aims to be complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec.
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Feb 5

Notable changes & Overview in Windows Vista SP1

This document provides more detail about the notable changes made to Windows Vista in Service Pack 1, which were focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards.The second document presents an overview of Windows Vista SP1 and the improvements it contains. Download:
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Feb 5

Adobe Reader for Windows XP/Vista 8.1.2

Adobe Reader is free software that enables business professionals and home users to reliably share information using intelligent PDF files. You can easily view, print, and search PDF files using a variety of platforms and devices. Adobe Reader has the following other editions available: Adobe Reader for Mac OS X, Adobe Reader for Windows 9x/Me, Adobe Reader
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Feb 5

Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008

This software is an optional supplement to Windows Server 2008. In Windows Server 2008, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the latest version of Windows Media Services) and remote administration tools are not included in Server Manager. To obtain the new features and tools available in Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008, such as
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