Archive for September 1st, 2008


Sep 1

Tracking Hurricane Gustav and Hanna with Virtual Earth

If you would like to keep up with the where abouts of Hurricane Gustav and tropical storm Hanna, here’re two resources to do so:
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Sep 1

WinPwn: Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool

WinPwn is a Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool. IT supports both v1.14 and v2.0. It has custom image support, custom payload support and 3g iPhone support.
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Sep 1

Windows Live Writer expiry prompt

If you do posting using Desktop Blogging clients BlogDesk or Windows Live Writer, you may probably have been greeted with this update prompt using the latest Windows Live Writer Technology Preview (Wave 3 Milestone 1). While the obvious conclusion is that the prompt is set to popup one month before the
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Sep 1

Step-by-steps guide for sequencing

Recipes or Step-By-Steps for sequencing are one of the most important things that you can do when sequencing applications. This will help you so much in the long run. 
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Sep 1

Microsoft Social Bookmarking to be named as “MSDN Social” and “TechNet Social”

Earlier last month, Microsoft announced of launching preview of its social bookmarking, a recent post of John reports that one of the things you will see in new bookmarking application in September is that the name changed to “MSDN Social” and “TechNet Social.”  Social bookmarking plays a vital role in that vision, but is just one application amongst a network
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Sep 1

Debugging Windows – Basics

Microsoft currently offers 4 types of debugging tools. With these tools you can remote debug another machine over firewire or serial cable (USB also but may not work consistently), as well as debug usermode processes and dump files.
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Sep 1

Convert error code to text when FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM doesn’t work?

For the same reason that not all error codes are defined in winerror.h, not all error strings are defined in the system message table. If you've ever played with the message compiler, you'd quickly have recognized the winerror.h file as the header file associated with a message resource. In other words, there's a .mc file that
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Sep 1

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) Overview

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) is a term used to describe users accessing a full desktop Operating System(OS) environment remotely. The desktop could be a normal PC, a Blade PC or a Virtual Machine. The ability to access a full desktop remotely has been available for many years via Terminal Server(TS). VDI is different from TS because in
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Sep 1

Windows Vista SP1 “Hibernate” issue on AMD SB700 Southbridge Chipsets – KB956871

When you put a Windows Vista-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer into hibernation, the system may crash. Additionally, you may receive a Stop error message that resembles one of the following messages: STOP 0x000000A0 (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR (a0); STOP 0x0000007a (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR; and STOP 0x00000077 (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
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Sep 1

Tracking Hurricane Gustav with Google Earth

As Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast, Google has added a “Hurricane Gustav” folder under the “Weather” folder in Google Earth. You can expand the folder to find the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, a forecast track (also from the NHC),
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Sep 1

Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, SMS hotfix KBArticles – August 25 – August 31

Last week, 9 Windows Legacy products related hot-fix KB articles were released, including 3 for Windows XP, 5 for Windows Server 2003, 1 for SMS. Below are the details: Windows XP - 3 KB articles: 955576  TAPI-based applications stop responding, and you cannot disconnect telephone calls on a Windows XP-based telephony server 955535 Server Message
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Sep 1

Microsoft: Disable or remove WGA pilot program notifications

Microsoft provides end users with the instructions necessary to disable or remove altogether the WGA Notifications anti-piracy mechanism from Windows XP that is distributed during the pilot program. Microsoft says that the general release build of WGA Notifications will automatically remove the version deployed in the pilot program. At the end of August 2008, Microsoft made available an update
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Sep 1

Switching from Mac OSX to Windows Guide

First, let's not pretend that many Mac users haven't always had a heavy reliance on Windows and Windows applications. And ever since Apple moved the Mac to the Intel platform, that need has turned into a frenzy, with Mac users now able to choose between both virtual (Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion) and physical (Apple Boot Camp)
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Sep 1

Google Chrome – An open source Google Browser

Google announced of launching beta version of their browser called “Google Chrome” in more than 100 countries for Windows to start. Google says, they’re at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include
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Sep 1

Microsoft codename “Nitrogen”

Codename of the day: Nitrogen | Best guess on what it is: The next version of Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Meaning/context of the codename: There are a bunch of elements floating around the Microsoft codename space. The confusing part is how seemingly unrelated some of them are…. So Nitrogen is part of Microsoft’s forthcoming integrated
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