Archive for August 9th, 2008
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Hyper-V is so new we haven't completely taken off the shrinkwrap yet, but Microsoft has already seized a healthy chunk of the virtualization market. The software giant now owns 13 percent of that market, compared to 82 percent for market leader VMWare, according to analysts at IDC. (Open source virtualization solution Xen came in third with
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File system filter drivers are often the topic of some interesting discussions when working on server performance issues. This post will discuss “understanding how a file system filter driver works, and also the most common issues - especially when dealing with Anti-Virus filter drivers and updates.”
Simply put, a file system filter driver is
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Microsoft warned end users that performing Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot. According to the Redmond company, the issue is generated by an incompatibility between the
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This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection - specifically hitting an error “Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER' and ‘CLIENT'”. In some variations, I've seen RPC errors such as “RPC server unavailable. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER' and ‘CLIENT'.”
Full
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Matt spoke at a Vista Squad, a UK based user group session, focusing on Vista, .NET, Silverlight, and more. The session was focused on Windows Server 2008. Watch the whole session after the jump.
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The second video of the series post [Part 1] is shot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with members of Keystone Aerial Surveys, and is designed to let users virtually fly with the UltraCamX. Keystone Aerial Surveys is a Microsoft partner that flies throughout the United States, and soon Mexico and Canada, in order to gather imagery
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The demo video after the jump shows the Dell Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Pack being used on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 during a simulated power failure.
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David Gosen, Xbox Europe VP while speaking at Microsoft's GameFest UK keynote, claimed that some 60% of Wii Fit owners played Nintendo's fitness-oriented, balance board-equipped title once and shelved it soon thereafter, noting that developers should be wary of pushing gimmicks in the place of solid gameplay.
“We've seen some research that says 60 percent of people
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Yahoo! added a new query parameter that automatically turns on the SearchMonkey Enhanced Result for the site you're searching to get more complete answers on Yahoo! Search. This new parameter will work with any app that's in the Yahoo! Search Gallery as well as any official app. (To make an app official, a site
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Yahoo! announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks as part of its response to a Congressional inquiry about customization sent to 33
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With 302 events, 35 disciplines, and over two hundred teams, the Summer Games can be overwhelming. The 2008 Summer Games gadget can help you follow all the excitement.
This gadget is a triathlete of sorts: It displays medal counts,
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Microsoft CodePlex celebrates its second year of helping .Net developers dabble in open source. The Microsoft open-source site enables developers to contribute to and share code for such projects as IronPython. On Aug. 6, S. Soma Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, blogged:
CodePlex had reached its
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The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack features new abstractions for working with data, smaller client profiles and performance updates to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It will ship before the end of the summer, Microsoft said. In a July 31 meeting with SD Times, Shanku Niyogi, product unit manager of the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft, said
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Jacob Santos has posted an extensive tutorial describing “WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall functionality and how to use it to make the uninstall process easy and seamless.” Jacob adds that the “uninstall” hook runs when the user deletes a plugin that is deactivated. There are two ways to register the uninstaller with WordPress.
Create uninstall.php at the
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Microsoft has decided against releasing a 2009 version of Money Plus, its personal-finance-management software. The company also is planning to discontinue selling Money Plus as a boxed software product at retail — but insisted the move shouldn’t be interpreted as an immediate move away from shrink-wrapped PC software.
In a blog post on August 6 to
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