Archive for July 26th, 2008
Jul
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This Technical Specialist (TS) exam, Exam 70-652: TS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring, is in development. The expected release date is August 2008.
Candidates for this exam typically have more than one and a half years of experience working in Windows Server 2003 and/or Windows 2008 Server environments as system administrators. Additionally, the target audience is familiar with
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Jul
26
Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, at Google reports that “recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
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Jul
26
This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.To learn more about Creative Commons, please visit its
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Jul
26
Microsoft officials are continuing to push their open source IronRuby effort to deliver an implementation of Ruby that runs on the .Net Framework, making several announcements July 24 at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON).
John Lam, head of the IronRuby effort, said Microsoft will ship all standard Ruby libraries that are implemented in the
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Jul
26
The Quick Apps are end to end demo applications which can be used a demos, technical reference, starting points or for community development (open source license).
The Windows Live Platform Quick Applications dev team has released four new QuickApps: We've added more applications: Retail, Contoso Riders, Team Builder and Field Manager and made lots
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Jul
26
The Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide is live in the download center.
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Jul
26
Charles Sterling highlights that you can run Hyper V created VHD’s with Virtual PC on Windows Server 2008 64 bit as long as you have installed Virtual PC additions installed into your image (in Hyper V it is called Integration Services (IS). - which changes the HAL to ACPI multi-cpu HAL. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Jul
26
Evidently spurred on by the reception it got at financial analysts meeting, Microsoft decided to move ahead with plans to turn the Mojave project into a full-fledged Windows Vista marketing effort.As reported, Microsoft last week interviewed XP users who were skeptical of Vista and showed them what it called a secret new version of
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Jul
26
Eric Meyer currently working on HTML 5 linking proposal for allowing most HTML 5 elements to become hyperlinks, has put together a demonstration of his proposal. His linking demo shows how you could put href="..." on paragraphs, table rows, cells, and many other places.
This demo is done with some JavaScript that captures the whole
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Jul
26
Apple has released a beta version of iPhone OS 2.1 firmware to developers along with a new version of the iPhone SDK, but the new SDK can’t be used for submitting applications to the App Store at the moment.
A few new things we are seeing in this version of the software
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Jul
26
Wired.com has launched a new beta, free web service for everyone who wonders “how Internet famous they currently are?” The service is called “Wired Celebrity Meter” which scans URLs and scores internet fame based on: - “webpages linking to you, your friends across social networks (just Twitter and MySpace for now), pages linking to your photos”.
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Jul
26
Apple is in the market for someone capable of hacking into the iPhone. According to this job listing, the company is looking for an iPhone Security Engineer capable of, among other things, developing “proof of concept” attacks on the device’s current security mechanisms. The successful candidate will be tasked primarily with validating the security architecture
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Jul
26
Before setting up a physical server to host Hyper-V Role, download, read and understand information included in the white paper “Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008”.
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Jul
26
Dell official blog has made a post on the issue of Nvidia’s statement regarding a potential issue with some of Nvidia's Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) used in notebooks. According to NVIDIA, these affected GPUs are experiencing higher than expected failure rates causing video problems. Though this issue is not unique to Dell, some of
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Jul
26
A research paper delivered at a conference in Singapore, highlights Microsoft Asia Research's alternative to Google's PageRank algorithm, BrowserRank. The new process, in theory, ranks sites based on their usage, and user behavior patterns. Google's algorithmic stew for rankings remains a great mystery, and an ever changing set of goalposts that are constantly gamed
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Random From The Google PageRank versus Microsoft BrowserRank
- Mar25Windows Home Server website overhauled
Windows Home Server product website got an overhaul, here’s a couple of key features: - May17Forefront: TechNet Spotlight Videos
Mr Lamb’s keynoted at the recent event on ”Building a Security Infrastructure with Microsoft Forefront”. The main sessions were delivered by Ronald Beekelaar MVP - Apr24Live Search Deep Links
Live Search blog has officially announced about its version of sitelinks called “Deep Links”, which appear under search results. When we were thinking about - Jul02Windows Ultimate team provides an update on Extras
The Windows Ultimate Extras Team today posted a short notice on the Windows Vista Ultimate site updating the community on the status of Ultimate - Feb16Intel’s New Advert: Is This An Upcoming Apple MacBook Pro?
Just look at the nice Intel ad campaign (new MacBook Pro):