Archive for February 6th, 2008
Feb
6
KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. It is an Internet project and truly open in every sense. Development takes place on the Internet and is discussed on our mailing lists and USENET
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Feb
6
Australia Eastern (New South Wales, Victoria, Australia Capital Territory and Tasmania) and Central (South Australia) time zones will extend daylight saving and also harmonise start and end times commencing April 2008. From April 2008, daylight saving will end on the first Sunday in April and recommence on the first Sunday in October in all states.
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Feb
6
Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds.
Torvalds was in Melbourne last week for the linux.conf.au conference and was invited to pass judgement on OS X versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview.
"I don't think
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Feb
6
And so it begins! Windows 7 has finally shown its face; LITERALLY! Up to this point, it has been nothing but rumors and minute credible information scattered amongst them, fake screenshots, a MinWin demo (if it weren’t involved with Windows 7, Ben Stein couldn’t have made it any less interesting where UX is concerned), fake videos,
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Feb
6
The release of OpsMgr 2007 SP1 is just around the corner! It will be released in English as well as Japanese, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and Brazilian Portuguese.
What's new in the Service Pack? http://connect.microsoft.com/SystemCenter/content/content.aspx?ContentID=6859 lists some of the improvements and major changes in functionality. Some of the more interesting
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Feb
6
Linus Torvalds has revealed he's worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
In a video interview at linux.conf.au in Melbourne last week, founder and coordinator of the Linux kernel Linus Torvalds admitted that he is concerned about software patents because he -- and users like him -- don't have any control over
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Feb
6
Xfire is the instant messenger for gamers. See when your friends are playing online games; See what game they are playing; See where they are playing; and join their game with just one click. Plus, unlike existing Instant Messengers, this one lets you receive IM's without disrupting your game.
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Xfire, Messenger, Gamers, Gaming, IM, Freeware,
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Feb
6
Michael Bolin has written a new Firefox extension “iGoogleBar”. iGoogleBar enhances Google's navigation bar by showing the number of unread Gmail messages (only from the inbox) and the number of unread posts in Google Reader. The extension also adds icons that open Google gadgets
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Feb
6
With Vista SP1 RTM'ing (release to manufacture) I decided to install it on my work laptop, the Toshiba R500. The Windows Vista SP1 Update is around 550MB and it was an absolute breeze to set up. It took about an hour and a bit to finish up and after a few restarts I was
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Feb
6
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. So just when do our friends from France say Microsoft is planning on releasing our little Service Pack friends? Well, according to them, we will be seeing Vista SP1 a little earlier than previously
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Feb
6
After getting in to the Chinese search market, Google is preparing to counterstrike at the country’s top search engine “Baidu.com” as reported by WSJ. Baidu has remained China’s most dominant search engine in a large part to offering free, unlicensed music downloads.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
Google is in the final planning
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Feb
6
Microsoft is cooking the next version of the Office Visio 2007 product. In this context, on February 5 and 6, the Redmond company will host the Microsoft Office Visio conference 2008, where it will detail the evolution of Office Visio. Jeff Raikes, President, Microsoft Business Division, is scheduled to offer a sneak peek at
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Feb
6
It appears the roadblock preventing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from being made publically available when it was released to manufacturing two days ago is a deja vu of the same but less severe problem that also happened in 2004 with Windows XP Service Pack 2.
The
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Feb
6
We'll be coming out with an update for Microsoft Deployment sometime later this month (February) to fully support Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 deployment with the Windows Automated Installation Kit 1.1, all of which were released to manufacturing this week. To give you an idea of what this deployment process looks like, I recorded
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Feb
6
Join Microsoft at INTERACT2008 - an exclusive event for key community influencers in the unified communications space. This event provides a unique opportunity for you to develop deep technical knowledge on Microsoft's unified communications products, build powerful new connections with leading
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