Archive for February 14th, 2008
Feb
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If you ever felt a need to fill out forms, or read a PDF document while using a computer without Adobe Reader installed? You can do it now with PDFescape, an online solution for all your PDF functions for Free!. PDFescape is based on the functionality original found in CTdeveloping's PDFtypewriter, and allows you to open your
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Feb
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Alright folks, you know the drill. When a big event comes up, Microsoft offers video coverage of the event over Xbox Live. This has been done before with the usual “Bringing It Home” events, so with the Game Developers Conference coming up and a Microsoft rep giving one of the keynotes, do
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Feb
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The NAP team has just released a Step-by-Step guide to setting up IPsec NAP Enforcement in a Test Lab.
This paper contains an introduction to NAP and instructions for setting up a test lab and deploying NAP with the IPsec enforcement method using two server computers and
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Feb
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Microsoft Corp. today announced a series of executive promotions — seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents — reflective of the company’s commitment to build and maintain a strong and dynamic management team across its unique portfolio of businesses. The seven executives promoted to senior vice president are Chris Capossela,
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Feb
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Sony's PlayStation 3 beat Microsoft's Xbox 360 for the first time and came in slightly behind Nintendo's Wii in U.S. video-game console unit sales for January, according to numbers just released by the NPD Group market research firm. Microsoft hinted at the outcome yesterday when it reported that it had been experiencing Xbox 360
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Feb
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Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the technology was a lot of "hot air".In a video interview at linux.conf.au 2007, which was held in Sydney, Torvalds admitted he had a particular dislike for
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Feb
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HP has expanded the HP BladeSystem portfolio with an Integrity blade designed to handle memory-intensive data center workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time.
As the company’s first four-socket Integrity server blade, the HP Integrity BL870c combines the modular infrastructure and energy
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Feb
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Solid state disks (SSDs) are a flash-based memory storage device that carries an insane price premium in the current market. They will usually cost $600 to $1,000 as an upgrade from the manufacturer or computer parts store, making them outside the price range of many consumers. A new cheaper (slightly slower) option is available thanks to
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Feb
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Why has Sony Ericsson 'succumbed' to Microsoft? The way the company's CTO Mats Lindoff explained it to us, is that you can't crack the US market without it. He was giving El Reg a glimpse into the future.
"We need products in all categories, maybe not in the ultra-low segment, but a broad portfolio. Windows
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Feb
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Yahoo TechTicker host and colleague Sarah Lacy confirms our view that the Yahoo-News Corp discussions are just a smokescreen. Microsoft will jack its bid to $35 within 10 days, Sarah says, and is so confident that the offer will be accepted that it's already drawing up the paperwork:
Sorry, Yahoos,
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Feb
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I'm at a Microsoft Partner office today where the team are talking to customers about Windows Vista. There was a customer on the phone earlier who said he didn't want to upgrade to Vista because of the following myths:
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Feb
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Feb
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Sun Microsystems introduced an UltraSparc T2 rack-mount server pitched at telecommunications companies: the Sun Netra T5220. The server has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, and comes with the Solaris 10 operating system.
The Sparc T2 processor is built on the Niagara architecture and features the eight-core, 64-thread Sparc design with floating point
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Feb
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A good portion of the next two weeks will be devoted to Terminal Services and the new TS features. So strap in, and let's get started ...
We talked about the Windows Server 2008 Startup Processes in an earlier post. SMSS.EXE is still the first user-mode process created
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Feb
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FriendFeed, currently in beta stage, is a new Social Media web service, that lets you track wof the web pages, videos, music, photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet, what people are doing or reading by compiling their RSS feeds, diggs, status messages, and so on.
With FriendFeed, you list the people you want to
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