Archive for August 28th, 2008
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You may have noticed that many of the hotfixes listed in the Microsoft Help and Support knowledge base aren't actually available for download unless you contact support? What you might not know is that there is a secret form on the Microsoft site that allows you to fill out a request for that specific hotfix.
Rafael has created a
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Aug
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One among the many new features of IE 8 Beta 2 is in the search bar, in the form of Auto Suggest. This new feature, built into IE 8 Beta 2 for seamless experience has some great cross Search provider features as well. To start, type something into the search bar at the top right of Internet Explorer. A list of suggestions
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Windows Home Server is one example of a Microsoft technology that is taking services away from the cloud. “Not every service in “software services” will run in an Internet datacenter. The Windows Home Server team believes that some services should “stay at home.” Want an example? How about a service that controls the energy usage in
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AMD plans to announce its first desktop microprocessors developed using 45nm process technology on the 8th of January, 2009, the first day of Consumer Electronics Show. The code-named Deneb chips will not get truly high clock-speed boost, but will be able to offer substantially higher performance thanks to larger cache and architectural improvements.
The first desktop processors from AMD
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Flickr-er Daniel Forsythe used his knowledge of cellphone camera lenses to make this quick-and-dirty manual focus hack for the iPhone, eliminating the need of tacky plastic addons to mod the iPhone's camera. It's simple. All you have to do is crack open the glue surrounding the
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Aug
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Suppose one of the PCs you support is acting up—freezing, crashing, blue screening. Is some piece of hardware failing? Is some newly installed application causing trouble? Or could it be faulty memory? One way to find out for sure is with the free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic utility. This tool will run a variety of
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Aug
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Cisco acquired PostPath, an e-mail offering as announced in a blog post by the VP of their Collaboration Software Group, Cisco has stated that this is part of their “cloud-based collaboration platform”.
This acquisition is interesting on a few fronts.
1) It’s a remarkable reversal. Just a year ago, Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer, Joe
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Aug
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Mozilla and Google have extended a search deal through 2011, providing some financial security to the backer of the open-source Firefox Web browser.“We've just renewed our agreement with Google for an additional three years. This agreement now ends in November of 2011 rather than November of 2008, so we have stability in income,”
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In Part 1 of this series post of IE8 Beta 2, we’ve really focused on making your everyday browsing experience better. In addition to the useful changes, Microsoft has made IE8 even more useful with integrated services so that you can easily accomplish the common things you do on the web – search
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Aug
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Collecting basic information about all of the computers in your network can be a tedious task. On the Computers and Devices page in Essential Business Server this one by one approach is no longer required. This EBS console page gathers critical alert and software update information about the clients, servers and devices in your network and
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Aug
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SUP stands for Simple Update Protocol, is a JSON-based meta format for RSS/ Atom feeds useful for websites that deliver a large number of feeds, like a blogging platform, so that services subscribing to that site’s RSS feeds only need to download a single file to check for updates, and then download the other individual
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Microsoft supports one flavor of Linux as guest OS in Hyper-V: Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 10. But to work properly inside the virtual machine Linux needs additional components that Microsoft releases under the name of Linux Integration Components. This package includes the Linux implementation of the Hyper-V VMBus (the same high performance interface that Windows 2003/2008
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Aug
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys.
The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to gain root access. Once root access has been obtained, a
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Aug
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Google has added a new layer to the Gallery in Google Earth. Spain-based Wikiloc aggregates thousands of GPS tracks for various outdoor activities provided by its growing user community. The layer not only lets you display the GPS tracks in Google Earth, but gives you additional
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Aug
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Google has added a new feature called “Following” into their blogging platform Blogger, that let Blogger users to follow blogs they like, given them an easy way keep up with their favorite blogs, and allowing authors to see who their readership is. By following your blog, your readers
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Random From The Google Blogger “Following feature”
- Dec19Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 – December 2008 CTP
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name "Mojave") delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to - Nov19Video: New Windows Azure SDK and Tools with Scott Guthrie
In this episode of @CloudCoverShow, Scott Guthrie--Corporate Vice President at Microsoft--walks them through some recent updates to the Windows Azure SDK & Tools.In particular, Scott highlights new ways to easily create and publish applications directly from Visual Studio. - Apr05WordPress 3.4 Beta 1 Released, Finall Version in May – Has 98 Versions Since .70 May 2003 Release
WordPress has been around since May 2003 and has grown leap and bound -- since its first release - Mar26Windows Server 2008: Configuring Terminal Services Gateway – Part 1
Microsoft security administrators have always been a bit wary of publishing Terminal Servers to the Internet. And for good reason – there was - Aug17Vint Cerf “internet is still very young”
Vint Cerf, a founding father of the web says it's come a long way, but its potential for worldwide change can and will be greater