Archive for June 4th, 2008
Jun
4
Another great story about WHS backup saving the day, this time, it’s from Mike Frank's blog post titled “WHS Eases My Suffering:“
Essentially a person (or a couple people) broke into my house, rifled through everything, and took as much as they could carry (so it seems). The item taken of interest
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Jun
4
Microsoft said it plans to test-release a feature-complete version of its Internet Explorer 8 Web browser in August. Microsoft released a first test version of IE 8 in March, providing developers and Web designers a preview of the latest update to the world's most widely-used browser.
The next test release, IE 8 Beta 2, will be targeted more
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Jun
4
Maile Ohye at the Google Webmaster Central Blog posted information regarding webserving techniques, especially related to Googlebot …what Google considers to be IP delivery, geolocation and cloaking.
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Jun
4
Igel is offering free firmware updates for its thin clients based on Windows XP Embedded (XPe). The updated firmware provides a wider choice of hypervisors for thin client virtualization, along with remote power management, XPe's FBWF (file-based write filter), and Internet Explorer 7.
The firmware announced today now adds Ericom's PowerTerm Web Connect software. PowerTerm is said
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Jun
4
Brian W. McCann, I get asked over and over about what I do when I'm performing a health check on a domain controller. Below you will see some of the commands that I use when I need to ensure my domain controllers are still healthy after some sort of change...like patching.
The Event Viewer is
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Jun
4
Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), lets publishers control how search engines access their site: whether it's controlling the visibility of their content across their site via robots.txt or down to a much more granular level for individual pages (via META tags). Google Webmaster Centeral Blog released detailed documentation about implementing REP to provide a common implementation for webmasters and
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Jun
4
Panoramio, a Spanish photo hosting service acquired by Google to enhance Google Earth and Google Maps, released a new feature called “look around”, that allows you to browse photos simulating a 3D environment. You can jump from one photo to the closest one, walking virtually around the place or watching the place
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Jun
4
Intel has announced a low-cost, NAND-flash-based SSD (solid state drive). The Z-P230 uses a parallel ATA (PATA) interface to save power in mobile devices, and sells for $25 in a 4GB version, or $45 for 8GB. A 16GB version will be available in the fourth quarter.Intel first
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Jun
4
If you've wanted to know more about why high item counts and restricted view requests can impact the performance of your Exchange environment. Microsoft released some detailed information about the behavior you may see as item counts in your critical path folders grow. Critical path folders include the Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, and Sent Item folders. Restricted views are
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Jun
4
The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers.
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Jun
4
Amid concerns that users of its Window XP Service Pack 3 operating system may be vulnerable to online attacks, Microsoft has finally broken its silence and explained which XP users need to upgrade their Adobe Flash Player software.
The confusion started Monday, when handlers at the Internet Storm Center pointed out that Microsoft had quietly noted that
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Jun
4
Remy Sharp created a new screencast and detailed tutorial on “how to create a coda slider effect using jQuery:“ Although Panic didn't really invent the effect, the sliding panels on the Coda is great implementation of this effect.
Recreating this effect is simple to do if you know what plugins to use. There are plugins out
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Jun
4
Scanners are unique pieces of hardware, the trouble is that over time, manufacturers of those scanners come and go, end support for older devices etc which means that on newer operating systems like Vista, support for the required device drives is tough to find.
In an effort to make it easier for scanners and all-in-one device makers to interface
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Jun
4
Microsoft plans to convert the 404 error pages on the microsoft.com domain, as well as other websites the company owns, to error pages with Live Search capabilities. This will allow Microsoft's customers to search for what they were looking for right away, instead of being stuck at a 404 error page that is equivalent to hitting
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Jun
4
While everyone focuses on the iPhone next update, a new rumor posits that Apple will already have a new version of Mac OS X available for testing in early form at WWDC, with its actual launch appearing as early as next year's Macworld event.Information purportedly handed to TUAW would have Apple seeding
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