Archive for May 31st, 2008
May
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IPSec provides technological support to implement a number of scenarios that improve enterprise network security:
■ Secure Server to Server: IPSec can be used to encrypt traffic between two servers. An example of this is Outlook Web Access and Exchange. All communications between the OWA server and the Exchange server could be authenticated and encrypted.
■ Server
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May
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A trio of computer security researchers say they've successfully compromised Microsoft's CardSpace, a technology intended to strengthen the security of personal information on the Internet. CardSpace ships with the Windows Vista operating system. It works in concert with a browser when someone uses a Web site that asks for information such as
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May
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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
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“Consider the following scenario: you are running a Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)-based computer that has two network adapters installed; you enable the Internet Connection Sharing feature, and then you configure the computer as a Connection Sharing host; you connect another computer to the Connection Sharing network. This computer functions as a Connection Sharing client;
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May
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The Google Ajax Libraries API WordPress plugin make it easy to use the Google hosted libraries without the need to mess with your theme and plugin code.
When activated, the plugin will “listen” to all of the scripts added (via the WordPress wp_enqueue_script function) to your pages header and automagically switch the locally hosted library to
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May
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Beginning late last year, a number of websites were defaced to include malicious HTML <script> tags in text that was stored in a SQL database and used to generate dynamic web pages. These attacks began to accelerate in the first quarter of 2008 and are continuing to affect vulnerable web applications.
The web applications compromised share several
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May
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Microsoft has released a security advisory warning of the effect we have previously reported as “Safari Carpet Bombing.” This is what most people would call a vulnerability in Safari on both Windows and OS X in that Safari does not warn users before downloading files. The default download location on Windows for Safari is the
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May
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Microsoft has just released the Windows Embedded Standard CTP and it is available for public download as a 4.2GB ISO from Microsoft Connect:
We're excited to announce that the Windows Embedded Standard Community Technology Preview (CTP) has been made available for download! Please download this build and help us
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May
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Microsoft storage guru and 'gamer dad' Jason Buffington has a great post on the popular Xbox Dad blog about using WHS with Xbox.
Many folks are probably familiar with Windows Media Center PCs for streaming music and photos. And with the Xbox 360® media extenders, that was an effective solution, if you have
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May
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Opera announced the extension of Google Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers. “Opera will have full support for Gears on mobile when they launch this year,” said Charles Wiles, Product Manager for mobile web apps at Google. “Opera Mobile 9.5 will be a great example of a high-quality browser on a mobile
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May
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Use the Error Code Lookup tool to determine error values from decimal and hexadecimal error codes in Microsoft Windows® operating systems. The tool can look up one or more values at a time. All values on the command line will be looked up in Exchange’s internal tables and presented to you. If available, informational data associated
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May
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The Partner Readiness Team is pleased to announce the Office Live Small Business Seminar, to be held at TVP on the 27th June. This one day seminar is designed to present delegates with an overview of the features and benefits of Office Live Small Business and is presented through eight course modules and a series of
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May
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IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web sites in Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista. Like any web browser, IETester has the usual forward and back buttons, refresh, stop, home, and favorite buttons, but it also has a special feature
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May
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Feedburner blog announces, that they’ll be rolling out “Adsense for feeds”, starting next week to few selected publishers, before a full launch soon. Existing, FeedBurner Ad Network publishers will continue to see premium CPM ads directly sold onto their content, but with the added bonus of contextually targeted ads that will fill up the remainder of their inventory.
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May
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The .PRO domain, which is maintained by RegistryPro, was launched in 2004 for exclusive use by certain industry professionals: accounting, law, medicine, and engineering. Up to now, only qualified professionals seeking a domain name ending in .PRO also had to live in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, or Germany. Now, lifting of those restrictions by ICANN
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Random From The .PRO TLD on the way
- Jul16Popfly shutting down on Aug 24, 2009
“On August 24, 2009 the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be taken down. - Sep25MSN UK redesigned homepage
MSN launched a new homepage design for the UK portal. Featuring a new header with a London Eye logo, it is very similar - Nov11VHD Attach Tool for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Here’s a small tool for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual (aka right-click) menu of Virtual - Oct08Apple Blocking Spotify On Way To U.S.
CNET noted that Apple Executives have been trying to convince music execs that Spotify will remove some the demand for paid music (it will) from - Mar29Now Tweet your Searchme search results
Searchme, a visual search engine has added a Twitter button to help users Tweet the search results. Once you've completed your search, “Tweet this search” button appear at the top of the results. Clicking the button, will be take you to the Twitter homepage where a Tweet is already prepared for you. Tweak as needed or go ahead and update.