Archive for May 7th, 2008
May
7
A new CSI episode was aired in the states last week and I've been waiting for a certain clip to appear on YouTube. This weekend it appeared and I thought you might like it. They use Microsoft's Photosynth technology to rebuild the 3D world of a party to identify suspects and solve the crime. If you haven't played around with Photosynth yet I would strongly suggest you take a look and have a play - it's great fun!
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May
7
The product managers for Live Maps in the UK have taken a slightly more proactive approach than last time to change the way that you get to Live Maps or Multimap. The changes will come into affect on the 9th May. The idea is to have the minimum impact to business and developers who have used the
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May
7
Microsoft's Debra Chrapaty presented at Microsoft Management Summit as a keynote speaker, The Reality of the Cloud. The subject of her presentation is how Microsoft runs its data centers, the Global Foundation Services group.
Future trends she presents the Microsoft Container, CBlox as well.
She discusses a lot of concepts for Green Data Centers
Power how to measure and
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May
7
Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.
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May
7
In part 1 we went over basic scripts and tools for gathering some generic information about virtual machines and in part 2 we went over VHD creation and WMI job’s. In part 3 I am going to cover getting more detailed information about a guest operating system by using the KVP Exchange
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May
7
Install this update to resolve an issue where in a failover file server, the Shadow Copy creation task does not work after the resource has failed over to another node.
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May
7
Chris has details on the recently released Microsoft Pro Photo Tools that provide extra functionality beyond Windows Live Photo Gallery. The Microsoft Pro Photo Blog provides some more insight on what the tool can do:
Microsoft has released the first version of Microsoft Pro Photo Tools with geotagging today. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides
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May
7
Grand Theft Auto IV, Take-Two Interactive's crown jewel of the sandbox game series, reportedly sold over 6 million copies of the game for Xbox 360 and PS3, earning the company over $500 million dollars in the first week alone.
Sales of the Grand Theft Auto games have historically been very swift, with composite NPD and VGcharts sales
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May
7
This post will teach you how to install MediaWiki onto your server for you very own Wiki pages. MediaWiki is the software that powers sites like Wikipedia and our very own Wiki, so the software is very solid, and works great. And here is how you install it on your server:
What you will
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May
7
Microsoft has finally made the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers available from Microsoft Downloads. The x86 version clocks in at 316.4 MB and is intended for system administrators who are required to updated more than 1 computer, or if you don't want to have use Windows Update the
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May
7
DWGoogle, the Chinese Google news blog reports that Google is about to release a dictionary tool in China. This tool is an adaption of Kingsoft’s existing popular tool PowerWord, and it allows the look-up of words as before but also brings new features added by Google.
“PowerWord (in Chinese, 金山詞霸 Jīn
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May
7
Microsoft Update Team: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available on Windows Update (and the Microsoft Download Center)! If you'd like to install it via WU today, you'll need to visit the Windows Update website. To do this, go to Windows Update and perform an express or custom install, make
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May
7
Event subscription has been one of the most requested server features by sys admins. Combined with task scheduling, this is a cost-effective and customizable tool to get a consolidated view of monitored activities and events in target servers, and timely issue alerts. In Windows Server 2008 subscribing and forwarding events with triggers to send out alerts can be done very easily as the following[...]
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May
7
Opera Dragonfly alpha is new Web debugging tool — “Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.”
Features:
Reach breaking point step by step: Opera Dragonfly’s fully featured JavaScript debugger makes building sophisticated Ajax applications easier than ever. Step
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May
7
Microsoft released the Zune Spring 2008 Update with a new Zune software package (version 2.5). Embedded in the resource files is an interesting image of a new red “Scorpius” (4/8GB) Zune. Instead of the model available today with a silver backing and red touchpad, this had a
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Random From The Red 4/8GB Zune with black touchpad embedded in Zune software update
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