Archive for October 20th, 2008
Oct
20
Microsoft announced details of its industry keynote at next week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), with a special twist. The first 300 attendees at the address by Kevin Dallas (left), general manager of the company's Windows Embedded business, will receive a free Via Artigo computer, says Microsoft.
Dallas' address, entitled
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Oct
20
Internet Explorer 8.0 as of now Beta 2 introduces a new method of interpreting and displaying the HTML data sent from web servers. In some cases, this can result in the web pages being displayed to users incorrectly. For example the pages may display with incorrect layout, or with overlapping text and images. Unless
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Oct
20
Here’re the top issues for Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster:
1. Hyper-V rollup fix – A rollup fix was released to allow for multiple highly available VM's (and their *.vhd files) to be placed on a single 'Physical Disk' resource. The fix for this issue is available for download directly from within the KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951308.
2. Storage
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Oct
20
Windows Vista is much better than Mac OS X, right? For the enterprise. And how much will it take to get you to write up that thesis? Such was the pitch that arrived in my inbox today from marketing company Studio B., a Great Neck, N.Y., marketing company associated with Microsoft and the Microsoft Press. The
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Oct
20
Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, but the next version of Office has also landed a role in the production.
Office 14, as the product is code-named, will be discussed at next week's event, with attendees likely to get a peek at a couple of its features, according
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Oct
20
Microsoft might become the single biggest distributor of Drupal, as discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Drupal, OScommerce, and other popular open-source Web applications.
While this doesn't technically make Microsoft a distributor of these open-source "bits," it comes pretty darn close, and it arguably puts Microsoft
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Oct
20
Intel cut the prices on several of its high-end, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo desktop processors. In addition, Intel dropped prices on some its older Pentium chips for desktops and Xeon processors for single-socket server systems. The price cuts also anticipate the release of new Nehalem-based microprocessors in November.
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Oct
20
Linksys announced a brand new range of Powerline Network Adaptors which are well worth checking out:
PLTE200 Powerline Network Adapter
Use your existing powerlines to network your computers and other devices
Share files, printers, storage, and networked games throughout your home — connect it to a router to share
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Oct
20
The post review the concept of SQL Injection attacks, to introduce URLScan 3.0, and to discuss how to configure URLScan 3.0 to block a SQL Injection attack that uses the Cookie header of an HTTP request as its attack vector.
What is a SQL Injection Attack? There is a wealth of information online about SQL Injection Attacks and
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Oct
20
Microsoft has been angling to get Silverlight on to the iPhone, but has been rebuffed by Apple; and is now evaluating Google Android. This would be a significant step on Microsoft’s recent path to decouple some of its key software technologies from Windows, a strategy adopted painfully, and largely geared to the
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Oct
20
John Marlin on the Microsoft Platform Cluster Services Support team talk about the Windows 2003 Cluster Resource Monitor and with what happens when it crashes, and show you how to look under the hood to determine why it crashed. As a foundation for this article we need to understand the basics of Cluster Resource Monitor. Below is taken from
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Oct
20
Installation of Microsoft Windows Vista as a Guest OS in Windows Vista is easy. For proof of that, just watch my video where I demonstrate how to install Windows Vista as a Hyper-V Guest. However, once Windows Vista is installed, the first thing that you will want to do is to install the Windows Server 2008
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Oct
20
There are some very good reasons why you might want to reinstall Microsoft Windows. Whether it is 2000, XP, or Vista, the registry can become corrupted or it can accumulate settings for programs long-since forgotten, leading to sluggish performance. Or you can find yourself with a stubborn Trojan Horse. The only way to be 100 percent
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Oct
20
Mary Jo Foley released CodeTracker version 1.0, which’s a free CodeTracker chart in PDF format. The chart lists all running Microsoft codenames. The “All About Microsoft” I’ll be updating every month. If you’re a Microsoft customer, partner, analyst, competitor (or even employee), you might find it useful. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Oct
20
ASUS' Eee PC -- frequently cited as the original netbook -- is still doing extremely well, claims the company's CEO. Jerry Shen says that over 4 million Eees have been sold since the product's debut last year, and the company hopes to reach 5 million before the end of 2008. The Eee line has extended to
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