Archive for October 27th, 2008
Oct
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The Vancouver Sun reports that Microsoft Canada has chipped in $25,000, raising the reward fund total to $50,000. Brandon's parents told police that the young man left home after an argument over what they described as his obsessive play of Call of Duty 4 on Xbox Live.
Steve Crisp, Brandon's father, is urging Microsoft to
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Oct
27
By default, the free-as-in-beer Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is configured for manual updates. In other words, it is NOT configured out of the box to go fetch automatic updates. This is desired behavior for most installs. However, if there are critical issues, like those you might find on the secbuls page, then you must
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Oct
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At PDC 2008 and WinHEC 2008 Microsoft will announce details about the next release of Windows codename Windows Seven. This post will inform you about what is coming to Windows Seven Server, which’ll be released as Windows Server 2008 R2.
Hyper-V 2.0: 2008 R2 will include Hyper-V R2, it promises to deliver the final pieces for enterprise level OS
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Oct
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Microsoft has launched another hybrid product-research lab focused on the development-tool arena. The newly formed DevLabs joins Microsoft’s growing list of incubators which includes Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs and Startup Labs.
Developer Division Senior Vice President Soma Somasegar blogged about the formation of DevLabs on October 23. Somasegar noted that some, but not all,
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Oct
27
Here’s how to start a video playing at YouTube.com at a certain point of time by using a “#t=” at the end of the URL, and then a time in the format of e.g. “1m45s”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s
Google Video has a similar way to link within a video: add #XXmYYs to a URL. YouTube implemented another feature
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Oct
27
Qik allows you to stream live video to the web directly from your phone, has now launched support for RIM’s incredibly popular Blackberry platform. The software is currently available in an alpha state, and includes support for the Blackberry Bold and Pearl (other phones, like the Flip and Curve, will be available in a later release that the
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Oct
27
Netflix has begun testing its Watch Instantly movie streaming service for the Mac. Microsoft’s Silverlight will allow the rental company to safely DRM the 12,000+ movies and television shows now available on their instant streaming service. Netflix claims that Sliverlight provides “breakthrough navigation for fast-forward and rewind.” Wow. No details on when this service will be
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Oct
27
Google launched Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch that brings all the power of Google Earth to the palm of your hand, including all of the same global imagery and 3D terrain. You can even browse any of our 8 million Panoramio photos or read Wikipedia articles. It's available in 18 languages and 22 countries in
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Oct
27
Moderator is a desktop application and a WordPress Plugin, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop. Some of the features of this early release of the application include:
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Oct
27
Microsoft announced that it is joining the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group, an organization focused on the development of the AMQP specification. Microsoft is joining the AMQP Working Group at the request of its members, including several of Microsoft’s customers in the financial services industry, in order to support the development of an open
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Oct
27
On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little resemblance to the original One Laptop Per Child device.
With the Microsoft version, you get Windows, for all the good and bad that entails. It's full-on Windows--XP
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Oct
27
USB 3.0 is racing towards the finish line. The current draft spec is expected to be signed off by the end of this year, and within 12 months we’re likely to see the first Superspeed USB kit his the shelves.
It’s a fast pace for the equally fleet-footed technology, which is the third revision since USB made
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Oct
27
Security researchers had identified a new worm, called Gimmiv, which exploited the vulnerability, and a hacker had posted an early sample of code that could be used to exploit the flaw on the Web.
Microsoft issued the patch more than two weeks ahead of its next security updates because the bug could be used to create
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Oct
27
Google will expand the Street View coverage to Spain, which’ll be followed by Italy, Germany, UK and the Netherlands. Google has just started to capture photos in the Eastern Europe, as you can see from these images taken in Bucharest, Romania. Zorgloob estimates that Google's cameras take 8 simultaneous photos every 5 meters and
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Oct
27
Hyper-V allows virtual machines to access storage mapped directly to the Hyper-V server without requiring the volume be configured. The storage can either be a physical disk internal to the Hyper-V server or it can be a Storage Area Network (SAN) Logical Unit (LUN) mapped to the Hyper-V server. To ensure the Guest has exclusive access
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Random From The Hyper-V: Configuring pass-through disks
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