Archive for March 28th, 2008
Mar
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Argeniss founder Cesar Cerrudo has found serious design weaknesses that could allow a skilled hacker to take complete control of the operating system. A hacker picking apart the security model of Microsoft's brand new Windows Server 2008 has found serious design weaknesses that render some of the product's new security protections “useless.”Cesar Cerrudo, founder
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Mar
28
A recent poll of about 12,000 US business decision-makers by market researcher CoreBrand found that Microsoft's brand power has taken a dive over the past four years. According to the study, Microsoft dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful US company brands in 2004 to number 59 last year.
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Mar
28
Terry Walsh over at WGS talked with Allen Buckner from the HP MediaSmart team, regarding progress on the data corruption bug. Allen told that HP share Microsoft’s point of view that the bug has only hit a very small percentage of their customers, although reiterating that whilst it’s an obscure bug, it
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Mar
28
In prior versions of Windows, especially if the installation had many applications installed over the years, it was not easy to run a program or navigate the system shortly after booting. I remember fighting with my mouse or looking over at the system chassis to see if the hard disk
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Mar
28
James, presented an event on Windows Server 2008 down in Exeter, and provided input to lots of good questions during the dialogue with the audience. Here are some of them:
Which applications are going to support Server Core, i.e. Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server etc. Many applications like Exchange are written in managed code (.NET Framework) and also utilise
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Mar
28
This article describes various scenarios in which you must manually install the updated Help files package for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). You must manually install the Help files because the Windows Vista SP1 stand-alone packages do not contain the updated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Help files.
Windows Vista SP1 stand-alone packages do not contain
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Mar
28
Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few year. While much of the success will depend on unit numbers, sources told TG Daily that Atom will be big
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Mar
28
Recently several people complained of receiving spam in Google Calendar, that automatically adds an event to the calendar with a description containing:
“Dear Beloved, I am Mrs Katarzyna Stanislava ... I am married to Mr.Fred Chec who worked with Kuwait Embassy in the Netherlands for nine years before he died
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Mar
28
Labels, which are also known as refinements are predefined keywords that are typically displayed above the search results. To make refinements work in your Custom Search Engine (CSE), do the following:
Create refinement labels.
To add a refinement to your custom search engine, go to the Refinements tab
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Mar
28
Two days ago Opera reached a 100/100 pass rate on the Acid3 test for the first time and we published a screenshot on the Desktop team blog to back up the claim. I am pleased to announce the first public build with a 100/100 pass rate and pixel-perfect rendering! The build can be downloaded
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Mar
28
Martin Rothschink has updated his power management add-in LightsOut to version 0.7. This update fixes a few bugs, and now provides English language help and documentation.
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Mar
28
After a five-year hiatus , the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics regional competition returned to the Pacific Northwest last week, bringing hundreds of participants, supporters and mechanical “contestants” to the Tacoma Convention Center. The event featured more than 30 teams from British Columbia, Alaska, Montana, Washington and Oregon, each
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Mar
28
Microsoft’s hostile-takeover attempt against Yahoo may encounter an unexpected hurdle in August after a Chinese antimonopoly law takes effect that will extend the nation’s economic influence far beyond its borders.
The law, which goes into effect on Aug. 1, is intended to strengthen an existing set of antitrust regulations the Chinese originally established
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Mar
28
Zemanta is a Firefox extension for WordPress, Blogger (Blogspot), and Typepad based blogs. It automatically shows related images, blog posts and Wikipedia articles next to the post editor. The nice thing is that Zemanta dynamically adjusts the suggestions as you add more content, but
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Mar
28
Google Maps added 13 more US cities and Yosemite National Park to Google Street View program. The new cities are Albuquerque, Anchorage, Austin, Cleveland, Fairbanks, Little Rock, Madison, Nashville, Rockford, Richmond, Spokane, St. Petersburg, and Tampa that increases total number of places where Street View is available to
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