Archive for September 29th, 2008
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Microsoft and Washington state are cracking down on scammers who bombard computer users with fake warning messages in hopes of selling them useless software. The state's attorney general and lawyers from Microsoft's Internet Safety Enforcement team are expectd to announce several lawsuits against so-called 'scareware' vendors, who are being charged under Washington state's Computer Spyware
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Visio Add-in for Software Upgrades will help IT/Datacenter administrators and managers assess the hardware and software installations on servers and user computers/laptops.
Use this valuable add-in to assess your client and server infrastructure easily and simply using Visio 2007. Evaluate what hardware on the client side you can upgrade to the latest versions of Windows
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Google is reported testing a new feature that allows specifying “how detailed the summary blurbs in their search results will be?” A user posted, following three options are available: S – Small (shows no description), M – Medium (shows a 161 character description), and L – Long (shows a 638 character description). The L – Long setting apparently shows a
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There are a couple of performance counter sets in Hyper-V that show memory usage. These counters tend to show memory used by one component of the system and the "Hyper-V VM Vid Numa Node" counter set is no different.
This counter set is intended to show memory used by the Virtual Infrastructure Driver (Vid). The good
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Microsoft’s operations chief took it personally when one of the company's biggest accounts was threatened by Google. Hundreds of workers at Procter & Gamble Co. were testing Google's e-mail, word-processing and spreadsheet programs as potential replacements for Microsoft products. It would have been an unprecedented loss. So Kevin Turner flew to Cincinnati in July, spent a day
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Sep
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The ECM MQ, authored by Karen Shegda, evaluates different vendors in the ECM space, and Microsoft moved from Visionary to Leader this year overtaking three other vendors for the best vision score on the MQ.
The report states, “Of all the infrastructure vendors, Microsoft has driven the most change in the ECM market over
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Sep
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Mollom WordPress plugin protects your website against comment and trackback spam. The difference with other spam services is that Mollom takes care of everything. The idea is to relieve you, the administrator, editor, maintainer,… of whatever moderation or clean up tasks you would normally need to perform in order to keep your blog spamfree.
In
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Sep
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This post discusses an issue with the FNCW and Exchange 2007. The symptom is that you receive the following error when running the Internet Address Management Wizard:
“The wizard cannot configure Exchange e-mail for your domain. To correct this problem, run the Fix my network task on the Connectivity subtab of the Network tab of the Windows SBS
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Sep
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Microsoft has released hot-fix KB articles, Windows Vista Enterprise Client, Vista Consumer Desktop, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, VS 2005, IIS, Windows Server 2003, SMS, HIS, VC 2008, Windows CE, Windows XP, SQL Server 2005/ 2008, Windows Server 2008, VC++ and Exchange Server. Below are the details:
Windows Vista Enterprise Client:
957424 A user name that contains Unicode characters is not handled correctly in Windows Vista
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks with PC Mag Espa No Comments » - Posted by DG
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This post focus on the current state of play in IE8 Beta 2, what happens when you pull certain levers or the user pulls certain levers. For a given set of inputs, IE8 Beta 2 will generate a specific set of outputs. Mike've collated a table which
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Yet another Ajax paged comments (YAAPC) WordPress plugin let the user navigate through the comments via page selector,only the comments area will be send to the client, not the full page.This actually save your server load and bandwidth thus making your blog faster and more responsive. It also let you post comments via Ajax,without page refreshing, and comment
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THE DAWN of a new internet age has begun. A network of supercomputers, known as the Grid, is to revolutionise the speed at which information is downloaded to personal computers. The power of the Grid is such that downloading films should take only seconds, not hours, and processing music albums just a single second. Video-phone calls
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European Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding won glowing praise for her vision of the Internet 3.0 from Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the Web and now Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist. Reding launched a consultation on the next generation of the Internet, laying down what she sees as its essential elements and
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Sep
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There are not many performance knobs in Hyper-V which is by design. We really seek out of the box performance. However if you are looking for that last bit of performance from your Virtual Machines (VM’s) and have already made a good selection for networking and storage you might consider setting the Non-Uniform Access (NUMA) node.
On
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Random From The Affinitizing your Hyper-V VM’s to a Non-Uniform Access (NUMA) node
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