Archive for the November, 2008
Nov
28
Microsoft offering one of the editions of its accounting package at no cost, but users of the paid SKU can upgrade to the latest release of the software for free. According to the Microsoft, Small Business Accounting 2006, Office Accounting Professional 2007 and Office Accounting Professional Plus 2008, Office Accounting Professional 2008 and Office Accounting Standard 2008
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Nov
24
The folks at Canonical released the next generation of the popular Linux distribution — the first Alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. This release is not recommended for users in search of a stable desktop environment. So what's different? The developers have been busy re-merging of changes from Debian, the Linux distribution that
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Nov
9
Latest Chromium builds are added with improved bookmark management features. The most notable new feature is a bookmark manager that lets you find bookmarks, move them to a new folder or easily delete a large number of bookmarks. In the Tools drop-down, there are options to import bookmarks from a HTML file and to export
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Nov
26
The latest Microsoft mobile-related development codenamed “Kojax” — Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, that will allow Microsoft and third-party-developed applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript, on Java-based mobile phones.
What kinds of mobile applets are we talking about here? Nothing iPhone-like, such as restaurant reviews or
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Nov
13
Windows Azure will power even robots. Microsoft's robotics group is experimenting with cloud computing as a technique to provide more advanced functions to robots while keeping the cost of a particular unit affordable for customers.
At Microsoft's PDC event last month, I had the opportunity to sit down with Tandy Trower, who is general manager of the
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Nov
19
Pitney Bowes Advanced Concepts and Technologies Group in collaboration with PB’s MapInfo Group has built an free application dubbed “The Fire Locator” with multiple dimensions of data to overlay atop a Microsoft Virtual Earth map with a Silverlight user experience. The app is released in beta at FireLocator.net, this free,
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Nov
20
Google.org in collaboration with and Vermilion Films released a documentary film “The Final Inch”, a 38-minute film about the historic global effort to eradicate polio, filmed primarily in India and Afghanistan, documenting the front lines of public health in some forgotten corners of our world.
Filmed in high-definition (HD) in cinematic style —
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Nov
11
In this kick-off video for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Week on Channel 9, we sit down with Jason Zander, Group Manager of Visual Studio. Jason discusses the major enhancements coming in Visual Studio 2010, including everything from language enhancements, to IDE improvements, to changes in Visual
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Nov
9
If you ever find an interesting academic paper in Google's search results, and when you click on the result, the page says that you need a subscription, now go back and click on "All n versions", below the search snippet, to find other versions of the paper from Google Scholar. If you're lucky, you'll find the paper in the HTML, PDF or PostScript format.
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Nov
15
Microsoft has extended Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 until December 31, 2008. Free unlimited installation and usage support is available for Internet Explorer 8 pre-released versions, but only for North America English customers. This support for Internet Explorer 8 pre-released versions is valid until December 31st, 2008,” reads a message on the IE8
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Nov
10
YouTube will move forward a little, announcing an agreement to show some full-length television shows and films from MGM, the financially troubled 84-year-old film studio.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of its decade-old “American Gladiators” program to YouTube, along with full-length action films like “Bulletproof Monk” and “The Magnificent Seven” and clips
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Nov
8
Last week Google has added an opt-in features called “Accessible View” to their Experimental Search, which makes it easy to navigate search results using only the keyboard. This experiment is built using the basic functionality provided by W3C ARIA and Google-AxsJAX, an evolving set of HTML DOM properties that enable adaptive technologies to work
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Nov
8
On day 1 of WinHEC 2008, the waiting is over. Microsoft senior vice presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan will introduce Windows 7 and show you what it can do, from advancements in core components and architecture to improvements in user interface, device support, graphics, media, and more.
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Nov
18
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a non-profit equity computing project opened its Give One, Get One (G1G1) store on Amazon.com. For $399, customers buy one OLPC XO Laptop to donate to a developing nation, and get one for themselves or to give as a gift.
With Amazon's assistance, this year's Give One, Get One
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Nov
1
This post discuss a recent trend, where Active Directory Replication appears to be fine but one DC only in one (or more) sites begins logging Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) Warning and Error events in the Directory Service event log. I included sample events below.
For those not familiar with the KCC, it is a distributed application that runs
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Random From The Directory Services: Troubleshooting KCC Event Log Errors
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