Archive for April 20th, 2009
Apr
20
With Earth Day just around the corner, a new MSN Green (http://green.msn.com) survey finds it’s not always so easy being green. The survey found that overwhelmingly, almost 70 percent of the Americans surveyed say that they would never limit toilet flushes to conserve water or use a kitchen compost. Although half of respondents say they
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Apr
20
Apple has fired back at Microsoft’s new Windows ads. The counterattack comes in four new, but familiar, flavors: “Time Traveler, Stacks, Legal Copy, Biohazard Suit,”
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Apr
20
Rubina Ali, the nine-year-old girl who was featured in the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire," was offered up for sale by her father, asking price was roughly $295,000 to undercover reporters working for News of the World, the paper is reporting. According to the paper, the price started off much lower when he first began negotiating
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Apr
20
This post covers details of the behavior of Windows Server 2008 DFS-N (Distributed File System - Namespaces) clients by looking at network traces. His main goal is to show the interaction between a DFS-N client, a domain controller, a namespace server and a file server. These traces were taken using Network Monitor 3.3 beta from a set
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Apr
20
The Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server H340 manual popped up on the internet. It use it's own DLNA (1.5) server named Digital Media Server. It has a low profile pci-e 1x slot (e.g.: for a tuner, a video card, additional eSATA ports, firewire card, etc). The manual is comprehensive and there’s a lot more to read and
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Apr
20
According to a blog post by Kirk Haselden, Microsoft is planning to roll out a new test build, as well as announce its go-to-market plans for its MDM (Microsoft Master Data Management) product line at its TechEd 2009 conference in mid-May. Master data management is technology that allows for the management of common reference data
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Apr
20
Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks. General Dynamics Information Technology placed an ad on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities
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Apr
20
Adobe unveiled a new version of its Flash multimedia streaming technology, called the “Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home,” that would allow people to run entertainment programming directly to television sets from the Internet, a new option for the rapidly changing digital-home market. The new platform is available now to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), and the
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Apr
20
If you want to toggle 3D weather on & off in the Virtual Earth AJAX Control; just turn on 3D by clicking the “3D” button on your Virtual Earth web site (such as Live Search Maps). Once you get down to a particular zoom level you’ll see the clouds appear (given it’s a cloudy day
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Apr
20
If you move one or more of your virtual machines (VM) from one Hyper-V parent to another and the VM begins experiencing issues, it could be because the version level of Hyper-V between the two parents is different, and thus the version of the Integration Services may be different. This can result in some strange and
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Apr
20
Microsoft managed to grab the lion's share of netbook sales last year, but at a heavy cost. It was forced to offer Windows XP -- a version of the operating system it had largely phased out -- at bargain prices to counter Linux versions. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to discuss prices it offers PC makers, but
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Apr
20
The Internet Archive, perhaps best known for its website archive the Wayback Machine, has let a federal judge know that it would like to be covered by same the copyright liability protection that Google will enjoy as part of its settlement with The Authors Guild over the search giant's book-digitization project will put its
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Apr
20
Microsoft released “Smooth Streaming”, a feature of Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services. IIS Media Services is an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform that includes extensions for cost-effectively measuring, monetizing and caching media. With Smooth Streaming, consumers get minimal buffering and fast startup time, because Smooth Streaming adapts the quality of the video stream in real time,
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Apr
20
Sun's new Intel Xeon-based servers are designed to bring speed, simplicity, and saving money through virtualization, green computing, and multi-OS support. The Fire servers and blade systems support not just the Sun Solaris OS but also Windows and Linux. The hardware also works with virtualization solutions from multiple vendors, including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Sun's own xVM Ops
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Apr
20
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The emphasis is on BizTalk Server, but the performance evaluation methods and performance testing scenarios are useful for analyzing the performance of virtualized server applications in general. This guidance will be of interest to both
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Random From The BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper-V Guide – Download
- Feb17SBS 2008: Hotfix for Outlook 2007 “Out of Office Feature” issue
If you are using Outlook 2007 with an SBS 2008 server you may notice the following error message when you try to enable Out of - Jun07iOS 5 on iPhone 3GS: What Have Been Stripped Away?
iOS 5 will bring along a boatload of exciting new stuff designed for the iOS devices as its predecessor. Specifically, Steve Jobs during yesterday's keynote - Sep25Wine 0.9.45
Wine is a project to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to run x86 programs for Microsoft Windows. Alternately, those wishing to port a Windows application to a Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries. - Sep08Live Framework CTP, SDK and other Live Services goes offline
Starting Sep 8th, 2009, the following services’ll be unavailable: Live Framework CTP (Services, SDK & Tools) - The Live Framework will be integrated into - Mar19How Microsoft is trying to kill email?
Paul Venezia: After all this time, all these spams, all the complaints from all over the globe, I can only come to one conclusion: Microsoft