Archive for the May, 2008
May
12
At O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, Google’s Matt Cutts talked about spam. You can watch his ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam”, and several other keynotes on blip.tv. No Comments » - Posted by DG
May
26
You’ve probably already started reading about how Windows Server 2008 now supports using Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) technology to synchronize SYSVOL. This means that the legacy File Replication Service (FRS) is no longer necessary and all the DFSR advantages for reliability, scalability, and performance can be realized.
As with any migration, it’s important that you
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May
27
Nick MacKechnie, Senior Technical Account Manager at Microsoft New Zealand has confirmed, that Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”,
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May
21
Microsoft has tried almost everything to get more people to pick its search site over Google, without much luck. So maybe a little cash will do the trick.
That is the idea behind a new Microsoft program that will return money to online users who find and buy selected products through
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May
10
Cyber Bandwidth Monitor tracks traffic of all network connections and displays real-time download and upload speeds in graphical and numerical forms. The software logs traffic of all network connections and provides daily, weekly and monthly traffic reports. It can also display download and upload speeds of multiple network connections on a computer at a time.
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May
15
Microsoft announced the pricing for the versions of Small Business Server 2008 and the brand new Essential Business Server 2008. You can read the full press release here, but essentially these are important bits you need to take away:
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May
3
Being involved with deployment projects recently I have found that deploying Vista in the enterprise is not a hard task. The biggest question that I'm often asked is: "Where do I start?"
There are countless resources in web sites ready for you to consume, however it is quite difficult if you don't organize and plan for a
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May
23
At the Advance08 advertisers summit at Microsoft in Redmond, as part of the keynote with Bill Gates and Satya Nadella, Satya showed off Farecast, a recent acquistion that is now integrated into Live Search, and I pointed the little Sanyo toward the stage:
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May
30
The Seattle posted an article, reporting that Microsoft will be offering Digital Media Workshops on a cruise from Holland America Cruise Lines.
From a press release:
“With on-hand support from Microsoft 'techsperts,”” -- techsperts, really? -- “The Holland America Line Digital Workshop powered by Microsoft Windows will enable cruise guests to document their vacation memories while
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May
15
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the cold boot encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday.
The cold boot vulnerability allows hackers to steal encryption keys from dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory in laptops that have been recently powered down. While Microsoft says such an attack is
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May
31
The ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (the UI or view from the
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May
17
Storage Explorer is a new tool in Windows Server 2008 to help you understand how your server SAN storage is configured.
It provides information about the storage fabrics (Fibre Channel and iSCSI) and also about the configuration of each server.
This new tool can greatly help you understand your server configuration as it relates to SAN storage. It
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May
30
James has a post, wherein he inform us that after he “SVN WordPress 2.6”, he saw a new “Speed Up!” text, and clicking, it revealed support for Google Gears which lead to some pleasant surprises:
Having installed the Google Gears plugin for my browser, I clicked the “Enable Google Gears”
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May
12
The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. The use of Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 is an obvious choice in providing data availability and site resilience. One advantage to
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May
28
The Google Mini offers the simplicity and power of Google's universal search technology at a great price. An integrated hardware and software solution, the Mini offers true plug-and-play installation and can be purchased online. Whether you're looking to search your company's internal information or your public website, the Mini has the features for your
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- Jan04Meet Windows 7 Jump Lists developers Rebecca Deutsch
Rebecca - Jun08WEI Share: Share your Windows 7 Experience Index DIY Webcast
WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with world (anonymously) to - Jun22iAds: Apple offer easy ways to opt-out of targeted ads (But Not Location Tracking)
With iOS 4 mobile OS, Apple's iAds are about to become part of the shiny white elitist experience. Which means that Apple now has to - Feb17Skype Mobile Product for Verizon Wireless Smartphones brings more value to US mobile consumers
At 2010 MWC, Verizon Wireless and Skype announced to bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March. The new Skype mobile product enhances Verizon Wireless’ - Apr22Microsoft UK Global Knowledge Sessions: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
A couple of Microsoft UK sessions with Global Knowledge were running around Windows 7, and this time, Windows Server 2008 R2 has been thrown into the mix.