Archive for June 28th, 2008
Jun
28
Ina Fried overt a CNET News has a video compilation of Bill Gates' final, official day at Microsoft as a full-time employee.
To mark this historic moment--33 years in the making--we've been combing through our video archives to find some memorable stuff.
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Jun
28
The most notable -- and the most significant -- change between the initial release candidate version (RC0) of Hyper-V and the RTM edition is better performance. Most of the performance work was done between RC0 and RC1, but not many people knew about it due to (a) not-so-wide a release and (b)
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Jun
28
The official release notes for Hyper-V are available for download here. “You need to apply the x64 version to upgrade the Hyper-V role in the parent partition to RTM,” explained John Howard, Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division. “I recommend you apply [the Hyper-V update] to all
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Jun
28
The DPM 2007 Update Rollup is a feature pack that includes previously released hotfixes alongside several new features aimed to enhance overall applicability and usability of DPM. Added features include: Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 support, enhanced support for sharing tape libraries and support for media co-location on tapes.This Data Protection Manager
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Jun
28
Webspam, in case you've never heard of it, is the junk you see in search results when websites successfully cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise violate search engine quality guidelines. If you've never seen webspam, here's a good example:
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Jun
28
Ghacks has found a critical Javascript vulnerability that effects Internet Explorer 6&7, that can be used to record keystrokes of a user even if he is switching domains. That means that a specifically prepared website can launch some Javascript that records everything the user does afterwards including text input which naturally means usernames and passwords as
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Jun
28
Windows Essential Business Server supports up to 30 System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) Server Management Licenses (SMLs), the maximum number of SCE SMLs permitted by the SCE software. SCE SMLs are included with the purchase of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS):
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Jun
28
XPassGen is a secure password generator which uses mouse movement for generating passwords. The advantage of using mouse movement is the result is 100% random and impossible to predict.
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Jun
28
A leaked memo from Microsoft, it's several pages of Gates just laying into his design and programming staff for—among other issues—his personal experience when trying to install Windows Moviemaker. And it's a very fulfilling read if you've ever been frustrated by a Microsoft product. When Seattle Pi asked Gates about the email, he replied, "There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail ... like that piece of e-mail. That's my job." There was no mention as to whether or not Gates had time to take names.
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Jun
28
Over the course of time, I’ve been receiving lots of queries, “how I’m displaying, “random, latest, previous posts”, and “excerpts”. I’ve responded those queries many times, so I thought to explain each queries on a seperate blog post to help the users.
In this post, I’m going to explain “More Tag”. As you can see, I’m using excerpts
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Jun
28
This post is a summary of the most common support cases in the area of DPM Protection Agent installation on a target server. We capture the following here in the excel sheet attached - common issues, why they fail, and the quick resolution steps to get past these issues. Hope this is useful, and let us know your feedback to make this better in future.
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Jun
28
Creating custom certificate request in Windows Vista. When requesting certificates from a Windows 2000/2003 Enterprise Certification Authority, we will use one of the built-in certificate templates. Certificate Templates are used to tell the CA what information should be included in the issued certificate. For more information about certificate templates, please see the following:
Certificate Templates
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Jun
28
Dan, to remember Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft, we asked Larry Osterman, Bill Hill, Joan Hoshino, and Soma Somasegar to share their favorite Bill Gates stories.
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Jun
28
AppleInsider has found out what exactly Apple has been doing to shrink application size, in the successor to Leopard, called Snow Leopard deliver performance improvements and resource footprint reductions. One measure is the fact that Apple has removed the various localisation files from each application,
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Jun
28
Carl Icahn explains over his blog “The Icahn Report”, why he has not posted anything about his proxy battle against Yahoo — “Many of you have been asking me about Yahoo. Please remember I am in the middle of a proxy fight. A proxy fight involves a complicated process of SEC approvals, federal securities laws, filing requirements and a great deal of time and money.”
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