Archive for November 11th, 2008
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Both the Inquirer and CustomPC have confirmed with Asus that Intel has recommended motherboard vendors warn people off from overclocking the memory on motherboards using Intel's new, Nehalem/Core i7-supporting X58 chipset. The consequences, warn the sticker, include permanent CPU damage.The issue came to light when a poster at the XFastest forums, posted an image
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The Internet Explorer team scheduled their last Expert Zone chat of 2008 on this Thursday, November 13th at 10.00 PST/17.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. If you can’t join online,
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AT&T launches a public beta of VideoCrawler, designed to provide a better way for people to search for, organize and share online videos and other multimedia content. Developed in collaboration with Divvio, VideoCrawler indexes hundreds of millions of video clips from thousands of sites, with new sites and millions of clips added every day.
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If you’re eagerly waiting for your new home server to arrive, or debating whether to buy Tranquil PC’s SQA-5H that has started shipping, they’ve just published the user manual for the system over on their blog, so you can check out what the server can do in a
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In September, HP announced that a user can upgrade the HP MediaSmart Server without voiding the warranty. Here’s part of the statement (Full Statement): “Based on customer feedback, HP will now offer a path for consumers to upgrade the memory on the HP MediaSmart Server without voiding the hardware warranty. HP customer feedback and
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Jim posted an update to his ASP.Net MVC on Windows Azure sample -- which includes plugging in the sample ASP.Net Providers that run against the Windows Azure storage services. This post will cover augmenting the existing "MVC on Windows Azure sample" with membership, role and session state providers as well as the workaround that ensures the sample
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Bill Gates is working with his former chief technology officer turned IP collector Nathan Myhrvold to register patents in a way that could help Microsoft monetize the internet. TechDirt has uncovered that Bill Gates is named as an inventor on nine patents registered with a company called Searete since he stepped down
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Dapper a free, web-based service that allows you to create a "feed" (Dapp) for any site that you can use: as an RSS feed, a widget, in Facebook applications, and embedd into your website or blog, is applying its technology to generate contextual, display ads from the constantly changing content on an advertiser’s own site with the introduction
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VMware is looking to bring its virtualization technology to smart phones and cell phones in 2009 through a new virtualization platform called the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP. The platform will use a small-footprint hypervisor that will allow users to have multiple virtual machines on their smart phones in the same way a desktop or
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Apple's iPhone 3G dethroned the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. during the third quarter of the year, according to market research firm NPD. The shift puts an end to the RAZR's three-year run atop the market, with the Motorola handset falling to the second slot, followed by
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The Windows Essential Business Server 2008 trial software is available for download in the following languages: “English , French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish”.
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Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
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The CollegeHumor have outdone themselves with their latest short, “what The Matrix would be like if it ran on Windows XP’. The concept is pretty self-explanatory: the movie The Matrix if the construct was run on Windows XP. It's incredible that content shot for the web is reaching the quality of the movies that it
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Larry Page had said that software companies don't have to pay Google to be included in the bundle, when Google Pack was released in January 2006. In addition to Google’s own software, the pack also bundled: “Adobe Reader 7, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition, RealPlayer, Trillian, StarOffice and more”.
After removing Trillian and Ad-Aware,
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Did you ever wonder which files were taking up most of your space? How about which files no one has touched in the last year? Which user is taking up all the disk space on your file server? The File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) component in Windows Server 2k3 R2 and up helps you
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Random From The Getting more info in storage reports with FSRM in Windows Server 2k3 R2 and Windows 2k8
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