Archive for the Year 2009
Aug
7
A Georgian blogger with account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia), with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites, according to a Facebook executive.
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Jul
2
Google Update is a shared updating app used by Google Chrome, Google Earth and other Google software for automatic updates, no longer runs in the background. "Until now, Google Update would always run in the background, functioning primarily as a reliable scheduler performing update checks at periodic time intervals. With today's release, Google Update now uses the Windows Task
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Dec
27
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is an integrated collaboration server for Visual Studio Team System. It combines team portal, version control, work item tracking, build management, process guidance, and business intelligence into a unified server. It allows everyone on the team to collaborate more effectively and deliver better quality software. Visual Studio 2008
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Dec
21
Earlier in 2009, the Microsoft privacy homepage became the target of rogue security software developers looking to make a fast buck. Privacy Center is one of the rogue antivirus that copied Microsoft’s privacy portal, “The developers of the rogue security application known as “Privacy Center” even went so far as to include
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Aug
25
The Fault Tolerant Heap (FTH) is a subsystem of Windows 7 responsible for monitoring application crashes and autonomously applying mitigations to prevent future crashes on a per application basis. For the vast majority of users, FTH will function with no need for intervention or change on their part. Principal Development Lead, Silviu Calinoiu is the mastermind behind FTH.
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Jul
2
Was the Internet Explorer 8 O M G I G P Internet Explorer 8 Puke Vomit Girl video advertisement a tad hard for consumers to swallow? Did it manage to leave an unpleasant aftertaste? No matter the reason, fact is that Microsoft has pulled the commercial altogether (embedded below with G.R.I.P.E.S.). The remaining two videos F.O.M.S., S.Y.N.E.S.S.
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Apr
13
Twitter users were infected by simply visiting an infected users Twitter page. Following being infected, users began tweeting about stalkdaily.com with messages such as "Dude, www.StalkDaily.com is awesome. What's the fuss?" Mikeyy Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.com from Brooklyn, has admitted responsibility:
“I am aware of the attack and yes
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Apr
9
Script errors are one of the most common web site compatibility issues—often the source of many visual discrepancies in the layout of a page. These errors raise a lot of questions. What can you do to remedy pages that have script errors? How can you provide helpful feedback to sites that experience script errors? And as
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Jun
2
Stephen reports of an early Build 7504.0.amdfre.winmain.090528-xxxx of Windows 8, it seems, Microsoft has already started compiling builds for Windows 8! Just to note, the early builds still always have the labeling from the OS before it, so instead of saying Windows 8, this would still say Windows 7 (download). Technically,
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Jun
17
Audio is especially sensitive. In order for you to hear music from your speakers, data needs to be delivered to your audio hardware approximately every 10 milliseconds, or 30 times in the blink of an eye! The challenge is that your PC is usually doing a lot of other things at the same time you’re listening
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Feb
12
Windows 7 introduces a number of manageability improvements that can reduce total cost of ownership by helping to increase automation, improve user productivity, and provide flexible administrative control to meet compliance requirements. This paper provides an overview of each of these improvements.
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Sep
1
A known issue exists in Vista and Windows Server 2008 where use of the netsh command to change global TCP/IP settings will cause invalid values to be written into the registry under ‘HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters’. An example of this behavior is found when you run “netsh in tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled”. Meanwhile this
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Apr
18
Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security suite that delivers comprehensive protection across endpoint, servers and the edge that is easier to manage and control. This download comes as pre-configured VHDs and enables you to evaluate Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling". It includes Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for Sharepoint Server, The Central
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Jun
3
Google made it mandatory to include "condition" attribute starting on June 30th, 2009, in all locations. In order to keep your feeds active past this date, and to provide shoppers with the most useful information, please include one of three values to describe your product: new, used, or refurbished.
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Sep
1
Google released a beta version of “Rich Snippets Testing Tool,” that allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. What’s interesting is that you can plug in any URL, not just URLs that you own via the verification process in Google Webmaster Tools, and preview the snippet data,
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Random From The Rich Snippets Testing Tool Beta from Google Webmaster
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