Archive for February 1st, 2009
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If you did a search on Google between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST on Jan 31st morning, you likely saw a message "This site may harm your computer" accompanied each search result. Google flags search results with the message, if the site is suspected malicious. The issue happened due to a human error that caused
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The introduction of Windows 2008 (download link) brought us the famous Read-Only domain controller, the domain controller without passwords (unless explicitly approved) and one-way replication. That one-way replication also applied to the SYSVOL share. Sysvol is replicated by either FRS or DFSR depending on the initial setup of the domain. If you have upgraded
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Boxee is a media center application that stream video from online sources such as Hulu and Joost. These two services provide a wealth of content including full length shows from many of the popular TV networks and even full length movies. Here are the steps to get these features into Windows 7 Media Center:
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Google Translate will soon add seven new languages: Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Hungarian, Maltese, Thai and Turkish. Another change is that the English dictionary has been improved significantly and now, it includes synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations, detailed definitions and examples from Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.
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This post discuss the steps required to run Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. We will cover the specific scenario of a standalone Windows Server 2008 server (as opposed to a clustered one) on a full install (as opposed to a core install) and using a VHD file
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First off, I would like to apologise to all our visitior for the long downtime (partial) of our site on Dec 30, 9.00 AM PST to Dec 31, 2.15 PM PST. During this time, if you’ve visited he site, and tried to view a post in a single mode or any other site page, you may’ve
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Adobe has teamed up with Apple to develop a version of its Flash video software for Apple’s iPhone. Adobe’s Flash, used to view online video and animation, is installed on 98 percent of the world’s personal computers. While the software is on more than 800 million handsets, it isn’t available on the iPhone. Steve Jobs called on Adobe
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If you happen to be looking at an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there's a slim but growing chance the ad is watching you too. Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The
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Prince of Persia’s latest series dubbed “The Prince of Persia Epilogue” is announced for Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, that will be available in 3 hrs downloadable content pack (DLC) on February 26. Pricing has yet to be announced. What we do know is that the new POP continues the story of the retail game, ups the difficulty,
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January was a good month for both the emerging Windows 7 (download link) and the venerable Mac OS X, according to Web metrics company Net Applications. In its Operating System Market Share report for January, Net Applications showed the Mac OS at 9.93 percent, up from
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Windows Vista includes a new notion of what were originally called "Mandatory Integrity Controls" but eventually became "Windows Integrity Levels." Under WIL, every object that have permission can also have a label that identifies its "integrity level." Files and folders have integrity levels, as do users and processes. It is, thus, a sort of set of uber-permissions,
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Yahoo! has posted about discontinuing its Briefcase service on March 30 2009. The service allows people to store files online for free and offer 30MB of online storage. Yahoo is warning users to retrieve or delete their documents before the date, after which, you’ll be unable to access Yahoo! Briefcase or your files within the Yahoo! Briefcase account.
“usage has been significantly declining
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Here’s a collection of resources for planning & deploying Hyper-V.
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Live Framework Tools January CTP update is released, that contains a number of fixes. In addition to below listed fixes, a new feature is included that’ll offer to notify you of any future updates to the Live Framework Tools.Few of the most notable as listed below:
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Random From The Live Framework Tools CTP January Update
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I am asked all the time what the criteria is for the Microsoft MVP Award. So I thought I'd add my thoughts on - Apr09Windows Vista Ultimate x64: Hardware bitflipping
Scott Olson an Escalation Engineer for Microsoft Global Escalation Services team in Platforms support, shared an interesting problem that came up recently. A co-worker was - Aug09Open source friendly IIS 7.0 sets sights on Apache
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