Archive for August 15th, 2008
Aug
15
BitMicro says it can now make SSDs with an amazing 6.5 TB of capacity. At the Siggraph trade show held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, a company representative told TG Daily that the custom made drives can have up to 55,000 input/output instructions per second (IOPS) and can have sustained transfers of up
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Aug
15
The RTM and Service Pack 1 versions of the latest Windows client can fail to play nice with restarting multicore-processor computers, according to Microsoft. Micrsoft described the problem as follows: “when you restart a multicore-processor computer that is running Windows Vista, you may receive the following Stop error message: “STOP 0x0000007B (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.” This problem
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Aug
15
Microsoft is continuing to flesh out its Software+Service portfolio and has yet another, still-unannounced, Microsoft-hosted service that it is developing. The new member of the family? System Center Online, according to tipsters who talked under the conditiion of anonymity.
System Center Online will be an online-management service aimed at IT pros, sources said. It is
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Aug
15
Google has now officially released “AdSense for Feeds” for everyone to use it. To get started, just login to your AdSense account, the new AdSense for Feeds option lets you create new ad unit from auto-selected format “468x60 and 300x250”. Generally, the 300x250 size will display when there's more content and when your feed is being viewed with
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Aug
15
Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist posted about the 3 types of advisement abailable for you on the Live Search Maps site named as “Highlighted Listings, Sponsored Listings and Brand Finder.” Among 3, the first one is available for orders via the Virtual Earth platform licensing group . To advertise on Live Search Maps via
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Aug
15
Webchunks is a Firefox3 implementation of Microsoft Webslices (feature appeared with IE8). It allows you to “follow” an area of a web page through a dedicated feed bookmarked in a new toolbar. Clicking on the toolbar entry shows the information related to your choice in a popup, without the need to open a complete web page.
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Aug
15
Back in September of 2007 Microsoft pushed a stealth update for the Windows Update mechanism. According to Microsoft, there’s another update to the Windows Update mechanism ready to be unleashed. The difference between this update and the stealth update from back in 2007 is that Microsoft is being more open about this update and actually talking about it
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Aug
15
On July 1, OCZ shook the storage market with its new OCZ Core Series SSDs which were priced at $169, $259, and $479 respectively for 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB models -- street prices were actually a bit lower after a mail-in rebate that OCZ offered on the drives.The other key selling point -- besides
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Aug
15
Justin Zarb has posted a technical guide about a Nortel solution he came across that's custom tailored to load balance Microsoft Application Virtualization Servers. Load balancing your servers is a pretty common topic around here so I figured it was worth it to post a link back to it.
Here’s the snippet of his post:
One of the issues
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Aug
15
Gary Schare and Bruce Burns sit down (well, sort of, Bruce stands, Gary leans) with us to talk about the sudden uptake of the latest Windows 64 bit client OS. It's very encouraging that Windows 64 is finding its way onto consumer client systems and into mainstream computing. This spike in uptake also poses some challenges
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Aug
15
The Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008 Documentation and Samples assists developers who are building applications for Exchange 2007 SP1. This release of the SDK provides new and updated information and sample code to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications for Exchange 2007 SP1.The README file contains installation instructions for and late-breaking
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Aug
15
Fortunately for web developers hungry for the the next generation of JavaScript, the ECMAScript specification is nearing completion. As John Resig, JavaScript evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and creator of the JQuery library, reports, the two groups have now reached an agreement known as the ECMAScript Harmony project.
Many developers may be disappointed to learn
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Aug
15
It’s very important that you keep security high on your list and make sure that all of your desktops are secured. So, if you’re concerned about your desktops security settings, you must check out the new Security Center assessment feature that Microsoft added to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
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Aug
15
The potential is limitless says Live Mesh team, but if you’re wondering “how many folders and files can you put in Live Mesh today? What’s the maximum file size and how many people can you invite into a folder? Is there a limit to the number of devices you can add?” The Team expects
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Aug
15
Former Apple vet Tim Bucher, now at Dell, is counting on his Zing software to give iTunes some competition. On Nov. 10, 2004, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a strained conversation with Tim Bucher, one of the company's engineering executives. According to a lawsuit later filed by Bucher, Jobs said: "People think you are sometimes manic-depressive....
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