Archive for July 4th, 2008
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Video software developer Gotuit Media has sued Microsoft, claiming that its Silverlight multimedia software infringes several of the company's patents.Gotuit Media filed the suit on Wednesday in a federal court in San Francisco, claiming that Silverlight infringes on three Gotuit patents, which cover ways of making videos searchable on the Internet.
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Dennis Middleton written a post covering a number of issues where customers have reported a significant difference between the “Size on disk” for the root of a volume, and the reported amount of “Used space” in the volume properties. While considering this, I noticed that my own C: drive had a mysterious 20GB difference.
Before we begin, there are
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Adobe has released an update to Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro,” which includes new features and bug fixes. The Astro introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to
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It’s recommended to use the Windows Firewall to protect SQL Server installations. Starting with Windows XP/SP2, and continuing with Windows Vista, the firewall has been enabled by default on Windows client operating systems. Windows Server 2008 marks the first time this protection has been extended to a Windows Server OS.
For those of you migrating from Windows Server
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Heather Hopkins, Hitwise Intelligence posted an analysis of Yahoo! online properties. Hopkins noted that Yahoo's own properties get more traffic from Google than from Yahoo Search.
[…]of the top 20 Yahoo properties for June 2008 based on share of US Internet visits among websites in the custom category
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Jul
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Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack 1 introduces new features and functionality to ISA Server 2006 Standard and Enterprise Editions. The new features focus on configuration change management and enhanced troubleshooting designed to help you identify and resolve ISA Server configuration issues within the ISA Server Management console.
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Here’re some the case studies on SoftGrid/App-V, with not only have docs but videos as well.
BASF IT Services
BASF IT Services supports networks and computers for nearly 60,000 users worldwide. The company followed an expensive certification process to ensure flawless operation of the applications it makes available—but the careful certification process was delaying the delivery of applications.
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Jul
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The Microsoft Windows SDK is a set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Windows SDK combines two formerly separate SDKs: the Platform SDK (PSDK) and the .NET Framework SDK.
More info: MSDN Developer Center
Curtis has written about some of the
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Jul
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Gamer over at WGS forums written a complete walkthrough on “how to create your own slipstreamed Windows Home Server installation DVD or USB drive?”. Making a slipstreamed Windows isn’t as hard is it used to be. Looking at the finished tutorial it looks like a lot of work, but it really isn’t! Personally I think it will save you
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, allows you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server worklaods as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V, you can also efficiently run multiple different operating systems concurrently, on a single server, and fully leverage the
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Jul
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Visual Subst is a free small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. It uses the same API similar to the console 'subst' utility, but makes it easier to create and remove virtual drives in a GUI way. A virtual drive is just a symbolic link in the Local MS-DOS Device namespace. It is just one more Windows feature added for backward compatibility with old programs.
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Jul
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The marketing guys in the UK recently put together some nice scenario videos last month showing the many different uses of Vista and other software and services like those included in Live. You can visit the micro site for more information. Watch videos after the jump.
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Jul
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Following the recent launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 GPUs, AMD plans to introduce the high-end dual-GPU HD 4870 X2 by the end of July, according to sources at graphics card vendors.
Evaluation samples are schedule to be available in mid-July, and AMD will begin shipping reference design boards with 2GB GDDR5 memory at the end of the month, the sources detailed.
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A few days ago Microsoft updated My MSN customised homepage and launched a new beta version, available at http://next.my.msn.com. The most striking thing you’ll notice when comparing it to the old site is that it now features the new-style header UI. This includes the drop down menu linking users to all the other MSN sites,
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Jul
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MediaSmartServer.net’s Alex Kuretz. has written an add-in for HP MediaSmart Server called “MSS Fan Control,” that allows the user to easily control the speed of the upper and lower exhaust fans of the MediaSmart Server. It also allows the user to configure the speed and temperature thresholds that determine how the fan speed should increase as the CPU temperature rises.
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