Archive for February 25th, 2009
Feb
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced a new entry level server system the PRIMERGY TX120 S2 that carries on the TX120 tradition of space-saving, energy-saving and low noise. It even improves on its innovative predecessor by achieving the same performance but consuming 25% less power. It does so, thanks to the the carefully
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Feb
25
Explore the Azure Services Platform, an Internet-scale cloud services platform that provides an operating system and a set of developer services. Participate in a webcast, download a podcast, or step into a virtual lab to see how you can use the Azure Services individually or together, either to build new applications or to extend existing ones.
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Feb
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During his hour-plus presentation (webcast), Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer outlined seven areas “where we invest serious money.” He told Wall Streeters that Microsoft planned to engage in careful cash management; to maintain “right-size enterprise overhead”; and to put about three percent of its spending into research and incubation projects in the coming year. Ballmer emphasized
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Feb
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Steve Ballmer spoke about Windows Mobile as one of its 7 big businesses. According to Ballmer, Microsoft has been ramping up expenditure in the Windows Mobile segment over the last few years, and at $900 million per year; regarding the operating system itself, Steve Ballmer mentioned the unveiling of Windows Mobile 6.5
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Feb
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Microsoft's competitors are continuing to pile onto the Opera antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Internet Explorer. The latest to seek the right to join is Google. Sundar Pichai said: “we believe that we can contribute to this debate. We learned a lot from launching our own Google Chrome browser last year and are
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Feb
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Marvell announced a Plug Computer called SheevaPlug, small enough to plug directly into a wall socket and is designed to draw so little power that it can be left on all of the time. The SheevaPlug platform uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor based on an embedded 1.2GHz Sheeva™ CPU equipped with 512 Mbytes of FLASH and 512 Mbytes of DRAM.
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Feb
25
Iron Mountain will be hosting a webcast that will describe how CloudRecovery can reduce the costs and risks associated with downtime and data recovery while achieving regulatory compliance by automating the long term retention of data. This webcast will cover how organiztaions can: Automatically backup DPM Server data without having to manage off-site storage;
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Feb
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EBS setup disables all network cards except for the LAN NIC during installation (the Security Server will enable its external NIC during setup). Hence, a data volume on an iSCSI drive connected through a network card will not be accessible during the installation and setup will fail because it is unable to write to the drive.
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Feb
25
A great set up resources of TechNet Webcasts for System Center Virtual Machine Manager:
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Feb
25
Google is holding a contest to see how “findable” the GSA is in offices from coast to coast in the U.S, deadline is Mar 31, 2009 and the winners will be announced on April 17. Two lucky winners will receive an all-expense paid trip to the Google IO conference and have a
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Feb
25
Using Google Analytics' Advanced Segmentation feature; you can now track your visitors from iPhone or iPod Touch. To enable the iPhone segment: click on the drop down menu, next to "Advanced Segments", and select "Visits from iPhones". You might want to turn off "All Visits" when viewing your iPhone segment; if the percentage of total visits to your site from the iPhone
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Feb
25
Gmail Labs added a new feature Title Tweaks that changes the order of the elements in the browser title bar to put the more important things first. Once you turn on Title Tweaks from the Labs tab under Settings, your browser title bar will display something more like "Inbox (3)
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Feb
25
Microsoft Research TechFest 2009, visitors immersed themselves in technologies that promise to change the way people interact with computers, take advantage of new computing power from manycore processors and make datacenters far more energy-efficient.
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Feb
25
The new version of the worm for which Microsoft has offered $250000, which is capable of infecting all Windows client and server operating systems, including Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 7 Beta, now also comes in the Conficker.B++ or Worm:Win32/Conficker.C flavor, in addition to the existing Worm:Win32/Conficker.A and Worm:Win32/Conficker.B.
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Feb
25
When you are scripting against virtual switches – it is good to know what type of switch you are talking to. In order to figure this out you need to find out whether the virtual switch has an internal network connection, external network connection, neither or both.
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