Archive for October 2nd, 2008
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Following the broad product, partner and customer announcements from its “Get Virtual Now” [Read here, here] launch last month, Steve Ballmer announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 in front of a crowd of 700 IT professionals during a TechNet Server and Tools event keynote address in London. To further
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Google’s energy team has been crunching the numbers to see how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030 and presented their first iteration of the Clean Energy 2030 proposal to stimulate debate and comment.
“Our analysis, led by Jeffery Greenblatt, suggests a potential path to weaning the U.S. off
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ClusterSHISH allows you to control multiple ssh sessions from a single input window. It's certainly not a new idea; many UNIX users are accustomed with ClusterSSH, that does almost the same thing on UNIX/X11 environment. ClusterSHISH works well with console applications, such as OpenSSH for Windows or CMD.EXE or telnet.exe. It also works with PuTTY terminal emulator (in fact, I'm using it with PuTTY most of the time).
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The Microsoft Application Virtualization ADM template configures client settings for the App-V Windows Desktop Client and for the Terminal Services client. The ADM template centrally manages common client configurations by using an existing Group Policy infrastructure and includes settings for communication, client interface, and permissions.
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16 members of the GSMA Association, including Microsoft, jointly announced the formation of a Mobile Broadband initiative to endow notebook PCs in 91 countries with 2G and 3G. “The Mobile Broadband badge will assure consumers that the devices they buy will always connect - wherever Mobile Broadband is available - and that they can expect a high
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Steve Souders has released a new Firefox plugin called “Hammerhead” for measuring web page load times. It has a sweet feature that repeatedly loads pages both with and without the browser cache so you can understand different use cases. One thing Hammerhead will not do for you is slow down
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Oct
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Microsoft will be releasing Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 for Terminal Services to customers on November 1, 2008 through licensing.microsoft.com. You'll probably see some sort of official announcement on the App-V TechCenter site but for now if you need more details on why App-V for Terminal Services is so cool take a look here.
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Microsoft tried to convince UK channel partners that it’s working hard to simplify its licensing terms, but many resellers have grumbled that the firm hasn’t gone far enough yet.
MS director of emerging technology, Gurprit Singh, who was speaking at the company’s partner event in London this morning, told the gathered crowd that a key part of
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Oct
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Net Applications revealed that Google Chrome's usage share dropped after the initial surge. “Google Chrome usage share has been dropping since its launch, but has stabilized at about .7%,” the outfit stated. This in the context in which Chrome exploded to over 1% of the browser market, more than Opera. Still, at the end of September
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Oct
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The ongoing relationship between Cisco Systems and Microsoft has become even closer according to news that the Windows Server on WAAS (WoW) -- an appliance that merges Cisco's Wide Area Applications Services with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 -- is available to order.
The two companies announced a product in February designed to consolidate networks and
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Oct
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If you read our recent review of the and were interested in picking one up, Amazon currently have a good deal on Linksys DMA-2200 Extender for Media Center [read the unit review], and DMA-2100. You can pick up the DMA-2200 for $149.99 and the DMA-2100 for $119.99
Amazon Links: Linksys DMA-2200 | Linksys
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Amazon announced the use of Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2 later this fall, that will let you host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance computing (HPC) clusters, media transcoders, SQL Server, and more. You can run Visual Studio (or another development environment) on your desktop and run the finished code in the
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Oct
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"Hi, YouTube, it’s me, Kiki," the teenager said to the camera as she swiveled in her chair to jazzy background music. "And today I’m going to show you how to cheat on a test - the effective way." She demonstrates her technique, slipping a small piece of paper with the answers in a clear-tubed pen as
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Oct
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A Search Engine Roundtable post, reports the thread over at WebmasterWorld discussing an updated Google patent named Information retrieval based on historical data, which highlight following two out of several abstracts:
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Oct
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The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While
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