Archive for February 28th, 2009
Feb
28
VIA’s new 8-bay barebones Network Storage Home Server, the NSD-7800 is now available to order. Pricing starts at $1219.95 which buys you 8 x 320Gb (2.56Tb in total) with other storage configurations also available. The server runs VIA’s C7-D processor at 1.5GHz, and bundles 1Gb of RAM, 4 USB
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Feb
28
The latest SketchUp software lets you model your own underwater world! Just download SketchUp, go to 'Window' then 'Preferences'; choose 'Extensions' in the left column; toggle on 'Google Earth Ocean Modeling'; then Hit OK.
Next import desired terrain from Google Earth, then choose 'Get Current View' in SketchUp. If you get 'Camera altitude too high' warning, just move closer to ocean floor. Next, under “Plugins”
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Feb
28
Puget Sound Systems Inc., an Auburn, Wash.-based system builder that sells PCs nationally, will launch its own Windows 7 upgrade program to customers who buy new Vista-powered machines. Beginning next week, Puget customers who purchase PCs that cost at least $1,000 and are equipped with the 64-bit edition of Windows Vista Ultimate will be eligible for
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Feb
28
In Dec 2008, Google Blog Search began indexing full contents. Since then, there have been numerous complaints of about “irrelevant, or outdated blog results, blogs are no longer indexed quickly, and Google indexing & including blogroll code in the link command results”. Google will be conducting “visual experiments early next month” that will start with the link: queries and focus on
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Feb
28
The Malware Protection Center (MMPC) Portal V2 Beta is a preview of the next version, which contains a subset of the final V2 features. These features include stream-lined sample submission; which is made possible by creating an MMPC profile. When logged in, the information saved in the MMPC profile auto-populates the sample submission form, expediting the
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Feb
28
AGI, producer of commercially available STK software for integrated analysis of land, sea, air and space assets, announces the integration of Microsoft Virtual Earth. hrough this service, AGI products can directly stream the ever-expanding set of terabytes of global, high-resolution imagery and maps from Virtual Earth. Access to the Virtual Earth imagery will be available
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Feb
28
Windows Live FrameIt allows you to collect content from across the Web to display on Internet connected devices. Microsoft have officially updated Windows Live FrameIt beta to the new Wave 3 look. The new FrameIt is now able to import your photos stored on Photobucket and Picasa into your digital photo frame. Also, Facebook and Windows Live Photos
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Feb
28
Windows Web Services API team has released the beta version of the API for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. It is available now on the Connect site for Windows Networking. This release contains the same version of the runtime as in Windows
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Feb
28
Microsoft in partnership with rapper Common is looking to cater the crowd with their new line of clothing called “Softwear”. You can buy Microsoft Martix Tee at Urban Outfitters for $9.99.
A BILLION PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONGThis is Softwear by Microsoft. A clothing line that taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our
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Feb
28
Microsoft hasn't made any significant changes to the Download Center since Feb 2003. Until now, the company was beta testing their new download center for quite sometime, and was offering users to beta test. Now, the company has made a full-fledged revamp to most parts of the site and released the site to all. The new version has a much cleaner
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Feb
28
When installing Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server in Hyper-V setup may fail due to issues caused by time zone settings. EBS setup does not expose either clock time or time zone settings during setup and always installs with a PST time zone. Hyper-V children will synch their BIOS time with that of the parent. If the
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Feb
28
Microsoft released the Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 CUI for the Windows 7 Beta. All subscribers of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) can head on over to Microsoft Connect and register to download the update. This release will have access to the new technology for free as part of their current licenses.
There is also a
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Feb
28
MSN Music Store UK will no longer be run by Nokia, as it is today from 30.03.2009. Instead MSN will launch a new Music Store from May 2009. Microsoft has been hinting broadly at coming changes for Zune software, and has recently split the Zune team into hardware and software divisions. “We're bringing our services, our gaming service,
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Feb
28
If you've seen VS crash while using the MVC RC in a Windows Azure Cloud Service project, the CLR team has distributed a hotfix. The KB963676 article is not posted, although this will be the final destination. The hotfix isn't specific to the MVC crash, it solves some crashes in the WPF Designer as well.
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Feb
28
The method in which the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is set during an install of SBS 2008 is different than that of Windows Server 2008. Like most component installation in SBS 2008 setup, the dcpromo process is hidden from the user and they will not be prompted to enter a DSRM password.
In a
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Random From The SBS 2008: What username, password needed for DSRM?
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