Archive for July 30th, 2008
Jul
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Do you know, when you create or edit a post, and click on “save and continue editing” or “save” button, your WordPress blog will ping unnecessarily that many times you click on those buttons. You can save your blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin.
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Jul
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In a move toward controlling datacenter energy consumption, Microsoft is deploying sensors that will trace work distribution to help plot for optimization. To better control energy consumption in its datacenters, Microsoft has deployed 2,000 internally built temperature and humidity sensors in several of its facilities.
The sensors use ZigBee wireless technology to transmit the data to databases
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Jul
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Symantec Safe Web currently in its beta phase, is built on top Norton Internet Security 2009, which performs many of the same functions as competitor McAffee's SiteAdvisor. Safe Web requires Norton Internet Security 2009 to run on the user's computer. This differs from McAfee's SiteAdvisor offering, which is a standalone plug-in for
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To address the growing security and management needs of today’s new PC user, Microsoft is working with 11 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Sony Corporation of America and Toshiba Asia Pacific to preinstall trial subscriptions of Windows Live OneCare on select new PCs across North America, Europe and Asia. Windows Live OneCare provides all-in-one security
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Jul
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Starting with WordPress 2.5, there is a bug where you cannot have a child Page that’s stub is a number. For example this will not work: /about/5/. That URL conflicts with paged content feature where you can posts and Pages with multiple pages of content by adding <!--nextpage--> within your content.
This plugin allows you to have
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Jul
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The new post revision and autosave functions in WordPress 2.6 needs a lot of database performance. Revisions: If you save posts in WordPress editor, a new row will be created in wp_posts table. Hence if WordPress auto saved 10 times, you will have 10 new rows in wp_posts table. This feature is useful, when a blog is maintained by different editors, because they
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Jul
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Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure. By banding together, the trio of computer industry titans hopes to foster collaboration among vendors, universities, and government agencies around cloud computing, whose progress is
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Jul
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The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month.
Paul Vixie, president of non-profit Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organisation which maintains BIND (the Berkeley Internet Name
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Jul
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India is developing a laptop to be sold at US$10, that will target higher education applications, a minister of the federal government said Tuesday in Delhi. Research on the new low-cost laptop is being carried out at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, said D.
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Jul
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Smart YouTube WordPress plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.
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Jul
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Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused virtual machine. You can create any sized thumbnail you want (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc…). Creating the image is pretty easy, you just call GetVirtualSystemThumbnailImage passing a reference to an Msvm_VirutalSystemSettingData instance and the size of the image
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Jul
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Hostbasket, a leading hosting company and SaaS-provider in Belgium with over 30,000 SMB customers reports that in a recent survey of our datacenter with over 1,000 servers, we saw that the average CPU-usage was only 12%. On the other hand, investments in new server hardware, datacenter space and the cost of power and cooling -
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Jul
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These days, taking a plunge into the world's waters can be dangerous, and it's not just because of jellyfish and sharks. The European Environmental Agency (EEA) launched with Microsoft a new Web site called “Eye on Earth” that shows the water quality scores of 21,000 bathing sites across Europe on a map, making pollution
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Jul
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Hyper-V is the next generation virtualization solution from Microsoft and clearly the product that is meant to replace Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. The term "Hyper-V" is the official product name for what was once code named "Viridian". Hyper-V is a term used to refer to both, a product, as well as a collection of technologies. An
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Jul
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At HostingCon 2008, Microsoft is featuring the latest tools and programs to further help partners to be successful in the world of software-plus-services. This includes the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 early adoption program, as well as the Windows Hosting Deployment Accelerator (HDA) tool that will include Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and SQL Server 2008. Additionally,
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