Archive for June 14th, 2008
Jun
14
Roadrunner was always expected to be fast out of the blocks. And after a test run one night in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, its creators are far from disappointed.
Built from microchips originally destined for games consoles, Roadrunner is the world's latest supercomputer. Yesterday it was officially crowned the fastest computer around, having performed
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Jun
14
Steve Ball, Principal Program Manager Lead on the Windows Sound Team has given some background on sound schemes in Windows as well as the new sound schemes released as Ultimate Extras and their relationship with the default Windows Vista scheme.
Default Windows Vista Sound Scheme: The default Windows Vista sound scheme was designed with the same principles that were
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Jun
14
Mozilla is hard at work on the next generation of its open source browser, Firefox 3.1 codenamed Shiretoko, which could end up as version 3.2 or even 3.5, but nothing is set in stone yet. Not even the delivery date for the first Alpha build, which is planned for mid-July 2008. Mozilla is currently seeing the release of Firefox 3.0 on
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Jun
14
Windows Mobile could see use in MIDs (mobile Internet devices), suggests a report from Forward Concepts. The report, aimed at quantifying MID-related opportunities for chip makers, identifies TI and Qualcomm as well-positioned in an emergent market expected to reach 40 million unit shipments globally within four years.
Intel coined the term "MID" in April 2007, launching a
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Jun
14
Microsoft unveiled “Live Search cashback” “The Search That Pays You Back” in May, that promises to pay back a portion of the purchase price — ranging from about 2 percent to more than 30 percent — to people who use it to find designated products and buy them online from participating retailers.
Paul Dillon over at
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Jun
14
Bob Muglia keynoted at Tech-Ed 2008 to demonstrate the importance of virtualization to both Microsoft and the IT industry.
Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America event for IT professionals kicked off today with a keynote address on enabling "dynamic IT." That idea was the main concept emphasized by keynote speaker Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server and
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Jun
14
At the “Connecting Your Wold Event” in Berlin this week, HP announced one of those products - the HP Touchsmart IQ500. The slim lines of the IQ500 hide a lot of hardware - an inbuilt 22&Prime high definition widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor (T5750 or T5850), your choice of an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
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Jun
14
The most common cause for an application crash is when a program tries to read or write memory that is not allocated for reading or writing by the application – a general protection fault. Some other causes are listed below:
Attempting to execute privileged or invalid instructions
Unforeseen circumstances or poor code
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Jun
14
At “Connecting Your World Event” n Berlin, HP announced that HP MediaSmart Server will ship in Germany next month, the eighth European country to receive the product (others being UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway).
Carlos Montalvo, VP Marketing & Services for HP’s Managed Home business confirmed that HP had no plans in place to
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Jun
14
If you're not sure what's the geekiest thing you can do with the money, we're talking about either a SLI or triple-SLI setup made out of GeForce GTX 280 cards, hooked up to an nForce 790i SLI Ultra. Those may be expensive sights but they aren't necessarily
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Jun
14
In an interview with The New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, Eric Schmidt, the search giant Google’s chief executive, said it “seemed obvious” that Google should be able to generate “significant amounts of money” from YouTube, on which hundreds of millions of videos are watched every day, but that as yet it hadn't figured out how
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Jun
14
Quick reminder for all of you out there who helped test Windows Vista SP1 and may still be running Release Candidate builds (any build less than 6.0.6001.18000). The RC builds will expire on June 30th - so if you happen to running one, be sure to uninstall it before the end of the month. More info is available in the SP1 Forum.
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Jun
14
Part of evaluating Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is about understanding how it all fits together. As you hopefully know by now Essential Business Server 2008 runs on three Servers. Today we’re going to cover what is actually installed on the management server and explain a little about its purpose.
The Management Server is the workhorse
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Jun
14
Scott Schnoll’s announced a new Microsoft plugin that will do Exchange VSS backups on Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008's new Windows Server Backup utility, the replacement for NTBackup, doesn't do Exchange backups out of the box.
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Jun
14
The Open XML Format SDK Technology Preview simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages. The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code. Using this API, you can programmatically generate and manipulate Word
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