Archive for July 30th, 2010
Jul
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IE9 latest Platform Preview Build includes two great interoperable features for working with DOM "DOM Traversal and Element Traversal" — which provide web developers with simple, flexible, and fast ways of traversing through a document using the same markup across browsers. These features come in the form of flat enumeration, simplifying DOM tree to
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Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, presented at DEFCON 18 hacking conference in Las Vegas — studied the four search engines for about two months and reviewed more than 25,000 trending topics and almost 5.5 million search results — reports that "Overall, Google takes the crown for malware distribution – turning up more than twice the
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Jul
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Lenovo is making changes to their D400 Home Server line, and to potentially expect retailers to start selling through their stock. The company is offering ;a crazy discounting, with Amazon knocking almost $200 off the model in the US, which is now available for under $337.90, with 1GB RAM and a 2TB Hard Drive.
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If for any reasons, you want to manually update your Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint scan engines. "Well, you can do it, but it's a long process to provide guidance here to those of you who wish to manually update FPE/FPSP scan engines and definitions as part of your
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Jul
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The post describes the steps to manage Hyper-V from Windows 7. Here's the steps:Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7Install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version, depending on your Windows 7
Next, go to Start / Control Panel and click on ProgramsNext, you'll see an option to Turn Window features on or off. Click on
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Jul
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ISC promotes motorsports events, including NASCAR's DAYTONA 500, and operates 13 facilities, representing more than one million grandstand seats and 550 suites. Exceptional customer service for the more than 3.5 million people that attend their events is critical to success.ISC relies heavily on email communication via Exchange Server 2007 to respond
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Jul
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HP Gabble beta is launched, and makes it simple to create private video conversations between friends, family members or colleagues working together in a team. "Gabble works with any computer or mobile device that can access internet. To start Gabble conversation, just log on to Gabble Web site to record a video using your webcam or
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Jul
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Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich has joined Windows Azure. "Russinovich is considered one of the foremost experts inside or outside Microsoft. He was co-founder of Winternals Software in 1996 — a company which Microsoft acquired in 2006. He also co-founded Sysinternals.com, for which he's written dozens of Windows utilities, including Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer, Rootkit Revealer
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Jul
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As reported earlier, Yahoo! and Google Japan deal combine 98% of the paid search market share in Japan. Microsoft itself said that "if Google's permitted, it would gain nearly complete control over search and advertising in Japan (98% of search market in Japan)." But, the deal got clearence from JFTC, as Secretary General
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Jul
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Tweet Pivot is a nice online service that combines Twitter data with Microsoft Live Lab's Pivot Silverlight plugin to give you the ability to view your Twitter life in a completely new way. At the moment you can pivot (up to) the first 1000 friends or followers of any user that hasn't protected their Tweets.
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Jul
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Twitter rolls out a simple yet powerful feature "Suggestions for You" to help users find the right account to follow. The algorithms suggest people you don't currently follow but you may find interesting — suggestions are based on people you follow and the people they follow. "When logged in, a mini-version of "Suggestions for You" shows
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Jul
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Swivel viewers are fundamentally simple, but tricky to communicate to end user what they can do. Google added a feature to Picasa Web Albums that "lets you flip through photos in an album in "Full Screen" or "Slideshow" mode by dragging left & right on current photo. This works well if you put an object on
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Jul
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Effective August 1, 2010, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software Advisors can qualify to receive a fee of 40%—up from 18% previously—on new subscription sales of Dynamics CRM Online. This offer doesn't apply to Dynamics CRM on-premise sales. Offer expires June 30, 2011.Read the answers to frequently asked questions for details (linked below). Also, FAQ document makes reference
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Jul
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In this episode, Ron Jacobs tell about my new Canonical REST Service sample code on MSDN code gallery, which demonstrates a REST Service built with WCF 4 that fully complies with HTTP specs for use of GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE, and includes unit tests to test compliance. Watch it after the jump:
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Jul
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Microsoft release of the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors Cumulative Update 2!Following is new in this update: » Support for HP Operations Manager for UNIX v9. This update enables support for HP Operations Manager for UNIX v9 with OpsMgr 2007 R2 Connector for HP OM. Connector supports HPOM for UNIX v9 on following platforms:
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Random From The Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors Cumulative Update 2 (KB2274165) Available
- Aug28Microsoft Code Name a Day “Blue”
Microsoft code name of the day: Blue Best guess on what it is: A Microsoft-hosted version of its SQL Server database Meaning/context of the code name: Blue, - Feb13Hotfix for Windows Server 2008 DNS records disappearing issue – KB953317
The DNS Server service in Windows Server 2008 has a bug that can result in a large number of DNS records disappearing. When those records - Dec10G4 Android App User Base Grow with Measurable ROI Using Mobile Display Ads on the AdMob Network
G4 a one stop destination for cutting edge tech gadget and video game news and information, considers mobile an extremely important extension of the G4 - May19Microsoft’s Acquisitions and Investments – InfoGraphic
Microsoft has come along way since the days of Windows 1.0 and even Windows 95. Over the years, Microsoft has made some important investments including: - Aug15System View Map for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Download the System View map for SQL Server 2005, this would definately helpful to DBA(s).