"At this point you have only downloaded the small installation file and not the actual KDE packages. Therefore, select the first option in the installation window �Install from Internet�. The next screen will present you with several options about how to install KDE. Unless you are a developer or have some specific reason to choose the other ...
Misard
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MSDN
We’re going to start off this blog with a couple of basic posts explaining what Dryad and DryadLINQ are. I’m going to start by introducing Dryad, and Yuan will follow on with DryadLINQ. Dryad is an execution engine that is optimized for certain types of distributed computation. It relies on the fact that its inputs are immutable and finite, ...
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Tom Warren
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Neowin.net
Microsoft releases "Fishbowl" Facebook Windows 7 application
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Microsoft demonstrated SilverFace during the Silverlight 4 announcements at PDC 2009 last week. Although SilverFace is not available download, Microsoft has made Fishbowl available. Fishbowl is a WPF desktop application that uses the Facebook stream APIs to allow access to Facebook in a clean and impressive UI. Fishbowl also includes Windows 7 ...
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K. Scott Allen
Is Microsoft Taking Dynamic Languages Seriously?
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Specifically IronPython and IronRuby. Consider this … IronPython got underway in July of 2004 . Five years later it appears IronPython is still not a candidate to be a first class language in the .NET framework and tools. You can vote on this issue . Microsoft first released IronRuby at Mix in 2007. Nearly three years later it appears IronRuby ...
Admin
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Infoworld News
Microsoft issues security advisory on IE vulnerability
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Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer .
Marc
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Marc
How the insider’s game works…..
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How many readers of this blog think this is a coincidence? Jason Calacanis makes a snarky remark, predicting that Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. should cut an exclusive deal with Microsoft - for all the News Corp content - once it gets pulled from Google’s search engine index. And then that exact deal happens? I mean come on, how obvious ...
Steven Bink
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Bink.nu
Datel sues Microsoft over Xbox mem unit ban
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Datel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft after the Xbox 360 platform holder's most recent dashboard update disabled support for third-party memory units. The complaint , filed in San Francisco federal court by Datel's representatives Howard Rice, accuses Microsoft of "exclusionary, predatory, or anticompetitive acts& ...
Steven Bink
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Bink.nu
Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1
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Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains significant fixes and improvements in publishing, SuperPreview, file management, extensibility, and other areas of the program. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 976594: Description of the ...
Silvia Valadares
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MSDN
O HUB criado
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Eu tinha um a suspeita de que a comemoração de 1 ano de #Microsoft Sol seria mais do que um evento para mostrar resultados e lançar o #BizSpark One. Claro que esses assuntos merecem muita festa. Mas a esperança que eu tinha é de termos criamos algo além de números e fatos com a iniciativa do Microsoft Sol. Lançado no dia 18 de novembro ...
Microsoft Privacy Team
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TechNet Blogs
Microsoft Bing Confims Commitment to Comprehensive Results
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From Adam Sohn on the Bing Blog : There’s been some buzz today based on a post by Nicholas D. Kristof at the New York Times suggesting that Bing filters results for searches conducted outside of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Simplified Chinese characters for their query. As Mr. Kristof reported over the summer, we did fix a bug ...
Blogfinger
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Sun Bloggers
Read what Microsoft says about Sun Ray thin clients
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Just recently, I read on this web page and also in this EEC blog entry (both published in July 2009) about Microsoft using Sun Ray thin clients in their Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) in Redmond, WA, where Microsoft is reproducing customer environments and performing product validation. It is absolutely stunning how the specific advantages ...
Johannes Ernst
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Johannes Ernst
Microsoft turning the LDAP directory into a Graph Database?
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Just finished watching Kim Cameron’s talk at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. A bit of a surprise that talk of WS-* has largely disappeared in favor of much about REST. But the most interesting part, for me, was at the end, when Gert Drapers (Principal Architect, Identity and Access Platform), gave a demo on future [..
J.D.
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MSDN
Now Available: Final PDF of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition
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A final PDF is now available for our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide, second edition. This is our platform playbook for the Microsoft application platform. Here are the relevant links: HTML version of Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, second edition . PDF version of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, ...
Ken
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Geekswithblogs.net
Outlook phone dialer quits when Microsoft Communicator is running
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Our company does not have a full SIP phone integration with with Microsoft Communicator. It is used for presence and IM. In Outlook, I like to use the Dialer (as I have my laptop modem plugged into my Phone {which is plugged into OOMA – yea baby!}) to save all those seconds. However, if MOC is running, then when I launch the Outlook ...
Bruce Eitman
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Geekswithblogs.net
Windows CE Chat
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Another great opportunity to ask Microsoft engineers your technical questions is coming up on Tuesday, November 24th. These chats are your opportunity to get advice and answers from the engineers at Microsoft. You may want to review the transcript from previous months to get an idea about what kind of topics are discussed. Title: ...
MSPP-teamet
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MSDN
Datum för Microsoft´s partnerturné i vår.
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Den Stockholm 10 dec startar vi i Stockholm med en komprimerade agenda om Microsoft Partner Network, SharePoint, Office, Visio, Project, SQL samt Forefront, detta event efterföljs av .NET Awards. Heldagsevent blir det sedan i februari, före alla sportlovsaktiviteter men eventuellt mitt i OS-yran. Boka in: Karlstad 9 feb. Borlänge 10 feb. ...
Www.abc.net.au
Microsoft to get exclusive access to News Corp's content
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TONY EASTLEY: Rupert Murdoch is reported to be ramping up the pressure in his bid to get people to pay for online news content. News Corporation has held talks with Microsoft on a plan to remove News Corp's content from the search engine Google.
Groklaw
Exhibits to Microsoft's Cross Motion for Summary Judgment in Novell WordPerfect Case
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I'm so glad you answered my question with a resounding Yes as to whether you wanted to get all the exhibits attached to Microsoft's Memorandum of Law [PDF] in support of Microsoft's cross motion for summary judgment in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation. We finally find out what Microsoft paid Caldera to settle the DrDOS litigation back ...
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Gertd
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MSDN
Now that SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP is available, I found some time to install it and test the existing Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition GDR R2 release with it. The only thing that is really different from a SQL Server point of view besides two changes to the SQL parser, is that the version number changed from 10.00.xxxx to 10. ...
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Max
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Geekswithblogs.net
Synchronous Vs Asynchronous Statistics auto update in SQL Server
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Asynchronous statistics auto update in SQL Server would ensure that the statistics are not updated when a query is executed, ensuring timely response. For this option, we need to set AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC to ON and also AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS to ON. Here, a separate thread runs in the background, which actually does the job of updating ...
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Jackr
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MSDN
Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server
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Sung Hsueh, a former SQL Engine Security team member, just published a whitepaper with co-authors Antony Zhong and Madhan Arumugam on Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server. Though it covers far more than just security considerations, it does outline the pro's and con's of different levels of consolidations (VM's, Instance, Database) in regards ...
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Geekswithblogs.net
How do I move a table from one schema to another in SQL Server?
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This should work for SQL Server 2005/2008-- ALTER SCHEMA SchemaNameForTarget TRANSFER SchemaNameOfSource.MyTableName example: ALTER SCHEMA RiskEvaluation TRANSFER dbo.ConvertibleDebenture
Eric Nelson
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Geekswithblogs.net
SQL Azure and Entity Framework sessions from PDC 2009
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Two areas I am looking at right now are SQL Azure and Entity Framework 4. PDC had plenty of content on both these areas. Just need to find the time to watch some of it! I have added direct links to the standard definition WMV and the PPTs to download (which is what I am doing right now). SQL Azure SQL Azure Database: Present and Future Windows ...
Jnak
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MSDN
ASP.NET Provider Scripts for SQL Azure
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If you want to use the ASP.NET Providers (membership, role, personalization, profile, web event provider) with SQL Azure, you'll need to use the the following scripts or aspnet-regAzure.exe tool to setup the database: Currently the only provider which is not supported on SQL Azure is the ...
LifeLongTechie
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Geekswithblogs.net
Calling SSRS report using either T-SQL or SSIS
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Would love to know if there is a way to kick off a SSRS report and pass some parameters into it via T-SQL or SSIS. Unfortunately, we can't have MS SQL Enterprise edition. Sad thing is I know how to make this work with Crystal report, and I hope I can find a similar API for SSRS to make this work. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Benmartens
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MSDN
PDC Videos
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Here are some videos of the PDC sessions related to my project. The first one, specifically, is devoted to my immediate team’s work. SQL Server Modeling (nee “Oslo”) Microsoft Project Code Name “M”: The Data and Modeling Language Building Data-Driven Applications Using Microsoft Project Code Name "Quadrant" and Microsoft ...
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Beginning today, all U.S. advertisers can get started with a new feature of AdWords called product extensions. Like Ad Sitelinks, which we introduced earlier this month, product extensions are a way for you to enrich your existing AdWords ads with more relevant and specific information. Product extensions allow you to use your existing Google ...
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A Googler
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The Official Google Blog
Easy holiday shopping with Google Product Search
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This holiday season, whether you're shopping for a new sweater for Fido , a Lego set for young builders, or that fancy camera you've been eyeing all year, Google Product Search can help you find what you're looking for at a great price. You can compare products and prices from merchants across the web, from popular retailers like Amazon and ...
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The latest Mobile Metrics report for mobile ad firm AdMob reveals some interesting aspects of the emerging smartphone market, as redefined by Apple's iPhone in 2007. For one, Apple's iPhone OS is regaining much of the share it had lost after the explosive growth that followed the launch of the third-generation iPhone 3GS this summer. Android is ...
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Chris Ziegler
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Engadget
Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room
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Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like that's the kind of ...
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Jim-wilson
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Pluralsight Blogs
New iPhone Web Development Course
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As you may have seen, the new Pluraisight iPhone ASP.NET Fundamentals Course is now available on-demand. I’m really excited to see this course go live. I’ve been doing a lot of iPhone-based web development over the past year and I can tell you that the iPhone provides one of the most powerful web-based mobile platforms of any device ...
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Om Malik
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GigaOM
Google Maps Navigation Comes to Older Android Phones
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Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm. Now devices such as the [...]
Kevin Phillips
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Neowin.net
Google Maps Navigation available for Android 1.6
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Are you one of those that adopted Android early on? You probably rushed out to get your hands on a T-Mobile G1 with dreams of running all the latest and greatest Android apps that were to follow. With the launch of the Verizon Driod Android 2.0 based phone Google included the Google Maps Navigation application. Many users who were on Android 1.6 ...
Admin
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Infoworld News
Third iPhone worm targets jailbroken iPhones
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Another week, another worm hitting jailbroken iPhones. As with the previous exploits, which Rickrolled your phone's wallpaper and stole your data , this nasty piece of work burrows its way into your jailbroken device if you haven't changed the password for the iPhone's root account -- you have changed your root password, right? Right?
Andrew Lyle
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Neowin.net
New iPhone worm can steal bank information
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A new iPhone and iPod touch worm has been spotted in the wild, this time the worm is stealing peoples banking information. Neowin reported about the rick roll worm two weeks ago that could change the user's background to a picture of Rick Astley. Much like the Rick Roll worm, this worm will only affect jailbroken users who did not change ...
Groklaw
Apple Asks for Permanent Injunction Against Psystar
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Apple has filed a motion asking for a permanent injunction against Psystar, statutory damages, and attorneys' fees and costs. Unless Psystar is permanently enjoined, Apple says, it won't stop. And by stop, Apple means Snow Leopard too. It plans to file a motion of transfer in Florida to bring that matter to California. It wants the injunction to ...
Www.businessweek.com
Apple Launching New iPhone Ads Tonight
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Apple is launching two new iPhone ads on TV tonight. The ads are intended to tout the iPhone’s ability to hold a simultaneous voice and data connection at the same time.
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MSDN
Madden NFL Arcade debuts on Xbox LIVE Arcade this Wednesday, November 25th, and it’s really a breath of simplified air for the simulation-heavy franchise. With Madden NFL Arcade there are no first downs, no referees, no field goals, no punting, and no clock. You’ve got four downs to score and four plays (run, short pass, medium pass, long ...
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Trixie360
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Gamer Spotlight – Trixie360 interviews Unsilent Ninja
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He’s a Gamestop employee and lead singer in Hampton, Georgia who is fond of Jessica Alba and oxymorons. Give a warm Xbox LIVE hello to…Unsilent Ninja!! *clap clap clap* trixie360: What’s the story behind your gamertag? Unsilent Ninja: Well, in most FPS games, I have a habit of sneaking up on people, killing them, and then hiding again. All ...
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News.cnet.com
Millions using social media on Xbox Live
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Microsoft on Monday said that millions of Xbox Live members have used the new social-media features that the company pushed live a week ago. In June, Microsoft announced it would begin offering Xbox Live users access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. And while the manifestation of each of those services is scaled down on Xbox Live, the rollout ...
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Hsiao-Ching Ting
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Sun Bloggers
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server (64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads) set a World Record on the SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with 2.88 GHz SPARC64 VII processors achieved 32,000 users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) ...
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Chen-Xing Tang
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Sun Bloggers
Java Job Prospect and SUN Certification
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Date: 2009/10/26 Location: 2B207, Teaching Building, Minjiang College. Topic: Java job prospect and Sun certification Agenda 19:00 - 20:00 Introduce Java Base. Speaker: Mr Fu, a teacher from Fuzhou Top Federal Software Service Co.,Ltd 20:00 - 20:30 Introduce Sun Certification and SAI Resource Speaker: Tang Chenxing, Sun CA. 20:30 - 20:50 ...
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Chen-Xing Tang
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Sun Bloggers
IT manpower requirement and SUN certification
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Date: 2009/11/05 Location: 304, 2nd Art Building, Fuzhou University. Topic: IT manpower and Sun certification Agenda 19:00 - 20:00 Introduce IT manpower requirement Speaker: Jianlong Wan, manager of Neusoft Company. 20:00 - 20:30 Introduce Java Programming and Sun Certification Speaker: Tang Chenxing, Sun CA. 20:30 - 21:00 Q & A.
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Sun Bloggers
Sun VDI 3.1 launches today
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With many , many new features Sun VDI 3.1 launches today. Some quick links: Announcement Product Page Documentation Download As we say – The best VDI ever!
Dr156914
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Sun Bloggers
Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5 Now Shipping!
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I'm happy to announce that Sun Role Manager 5 and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 are now shipping! Sun Role Manager 5.0 is the latest release of Sun's Enterprise Role Management and Access Governance solution. In this release, Sun is extending it's leadership in the market by driving innovation that will allow companies to move beyond ...
Bblfish
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Sun Bloggers
My time at Sun is coming to an end
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Many have been laid off at Sun over the past few years, and we are in a new round now in France: it looks like it may be my turn next. I am lucky to be working from Europe where these things take quite some time to be processed. There may be even some way I can extend my pay for 3 months, if I volunteer to depart, and don't take some time to ...
LifeLongTechie
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Geekswithblogs.net
T-SQL extract multiple child node attribute data out of an XML datatype.
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Business scenario: We have an XML file (HIPAA 837) saved as a XML data column in a table and we need to go through each row and get different information on different nodes and output to a table. The real reason of this design lies in with how the claim system is designed, which I will not try to explain here. Approach: Using Common Table ...
Chris Kawalek
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Sun Bloggers
Sun VDI Software 3.1 is out
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The latest release of Sun VDI Software is now available. Head on over to Think Thin where I describe the new features for more detail!
CM and KP
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Sun Bloggers
From Sun BluePrints: Sun Business Ready HPC for Altair RADIOSS
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This article gives an overview of running RADIOSS in a high-performance clustered environment on Sun systems. Sample performance data and suggestions for designing and configuring optimal solutions for a variety of workload sizes are presented. (Registration required.)
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Filed under: Software , Cool tools As part of my trade, I work a lot with colors . ColorSchemer Studio has long been a valuable tool in my toolkit for picking out color schemes based on solid color theory. It had its shortcomings, though, and some other tools had surpassed it, both on the desktop and on the iPhone . However, I got a sneak peek ...
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Chris Rawson
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple's Black Friday ad possibly leaked?
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Filed under: Retail , Rumors , Deals Boy Genius Report claims to have gotten its hands on Apple's Black Friday brochure . Although they had posted another brochure earlier that made less than credible claims of 30% iPod discounts and 25% Mac discounts, BGR claims this newest ad comes from "a pretty credible connect of ours." The new ad's ...
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Brett Terpstra
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Mac Pro takes a bullet, brings justice
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Filed under: Features , Mac Pro This piece isn't about shooting Mac Pros, but it is about how the Mac Pro is helping forensics professionals solve cases faster and more accurately. Pyramidal Technologies produces a system called ALIAS ( A dvanced bal LI stics A nalysis S ystem), a replacement for standard ballistic investigation systems that ...
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Some of the magazine industry’s biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands.
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Chris Ziegler
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Engadget
Glowing red cyborg eyes, bombs dropped from stealth fighters , emotionless calls of "DRRROOOIIID" every time you get a text message -- it's enough to scare yesterday's lunch out of anyone. Verizon's no-holds-barred advertising campaign for the Motorola Droid has been so hellishly frightening overwhelmingly successful, in fact, that it appears to ...
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Chris Rawson
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Two new iPhone ads: Apple defends AT&T?
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , iPhone Apple's jumped into the Verizon versus AT&T fray , according to BusinessWeek, with a couple of new ads -- and, somewhat surprisingly, they come out in full defense of AT&T. Both ads show an iPhone user in the middle of a phone call who multitasks by looking up movie information, ...
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Tom Warren
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Neowin.net
Apple attacks Verizon with new iPhone commercials
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Verizon began an ad-campaign in October for the Droid handset where it ran commercials entitled "iDon't", attacking the Apple iPhone. The Verizon advertisement attacked Apple's oversights on the iPhone like a real keyboard, running simultaneous applications, being customizable, allowing widgets, open source development and interchangeable ...
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The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal for responding to its concerns and making its terms more free software friendly. BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, November 23rd, 2009 -- Usually when you hear good news about licensing from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), it's because some noteworthy software has become free software or GPL- ...
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MSDN
There is plenty of new functionality in VS 2010 but not nearly as much information on extending it. Karl Shifflett published a two part series on creating design times for Silverlight & WPF controls in 2010. Take a look:
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Www.silverlightcream.com
EdgeCam Shots - Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG
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In my last blog post I have covered the new Silverlight 4 Webcam API and provided a demo that used my edge detection pixel shader to create a nice real time webcam effect. In this post I make an extended version available which can save webcam snapshots as JPEG files and I also discuss some limitations of the webcam API's built-in CaptureSource. ...
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Geekswithblogs.net
Silverlight Cream for -- #741
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In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Andrej Tozon , Lee , Adam Kinney , Karl Shifflett , Andy Beaulieu , and Rob Houweling . From SilverlightCream.com : Revisiting Lorem Ipsum in Silverlight 4 with RichTextArea and Printing Jeremy Likness revisits some previous work on inline hyperlinks now in Silverlight 4B where the task becomes much simpler. He ...
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SanjeevAgarwal
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ASP.NET
Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 24-25, 2009
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 24-25, 2009 Web Development Building High Performance Web Applications How to load partial view dynamically in ASP.NET MVC using JQuery Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions Web Design 5 Useful Coding Solutions Part 2 12 Useful jQuery Plugins for Working with Tables ...
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Gregg Boer
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MSDN
In configuring the integration between Team Foundation Server and SharePoint Products, one of the most common errors we see in Beta 2 is: TF249038: The following Web service is not available: . This Web service is used for the Team Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products.
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Mark Rackley
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Geekswithblogs.net
SharePoint Buddy System
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It was a warm sunny July afternoon. The lake was cool, calm, and inviting. Little Johnny sat on the bank of the lake skipping rocks while the rest of the cub scouts were out hiking in the woods. Johnny was soaking it all in, the vast lake with the little island in the middle. The bright blue sky, nothing but the sounds of the wind and ...
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Geekswithblogs.net
SharePoint 2010 and Claims Based Awareness
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The industry it moving towards identity standards, and with the recent release of Windows Identity Foundation (fka Geneva), and the beta of SharePoint 2010, it’s important to take a look at the direction of how identity is being normalized into a “service” within the SharePoint object model. With SPS 2010, the SPUser object is now a claims ...
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Steven Bink
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Bink.nu
Office 2010 Home and Business Click to Run Public Beta
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Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 is the essential software suite for managing small businesses and working from home. Enhanced tools and features help you run your business, connect with customers, and organize your household more efficiently. Office Home and Business 2010 features new photo, video, and text effects for creating standout ...
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Last week, I wrote about the problems of writing documentation for free software. This week, I'd like to write about the practical challenges -- specifically, what knowledge you need to write free software documentation, and the available sources of information.
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Jeff Alexander
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Sun Bloggers
The Replicants (data storage nodes) in Aura are composed of a search engine and a database . While we are closely tied to using our own search engine, the implementation of the database layer is entirely contained in a wrapper class called BerkeleyDataWrapper . This class does all the handling around repeating failed transactions, making sure ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
American Express Is Twitter Crazy Too. Unveils Its Small Business Tweet Stream.
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Businesses using Twitter; there's something to this idea. Even Twitter itself realizes it, as it's expected to be a part of its own business model launching soon. In the meantime, other companies continue to jump into the ring. The lastest is American Express, which today unveiled Pulse , a Twitter stream focused on small businesses. Pulse, ...
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Eric Nelson
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Geekswithblogs.net
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Complex Types and Entities
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[This is the fourth in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework 4 based on the demos I did in my session at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week (Nov 2009).] Complex Types make it easier to work with objects, allowing the grouping of related properties in Entities and the reuse of these groupings across Entities.
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Chris Han
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Geekswithblogs.net
Define the Enterprise Architecture: Ontology, Typology, Taxonomy
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What is Ontology? Quote from Wikipedia "is the philosophical study of the nature of being , existence or reality in general, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations....ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy , and ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Yesterday, Facebook's Dave Recordon commented that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing , a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg . So why is this interesting? Well, ...
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Amazon announced some major changes to their Kindle e-book reader today. Specifically, it stated that they’ve worked out a way to increase battery life by 85%. That means that the new firmware update will allow you to leave your Kindle on (with the wifi active) for about 7 days before you need to recharge. Additionally, the Kindle will now ...
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Laura June
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Engadget
ASUS UL30Vt available for pre-order at Amazon
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ASUS 's good-looking, switchable-graphics boasting UL30Vt-X1 is one those Windows 7 laptops you really need to check out for yourself. The thin and light, 13.3-incher will get super strength battery life with the discrete graphics on. This one packs DDR3 memory, and a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor (which can be overclocked). It's up ...
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David Winograd
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
The Barcodescan Pro app helps you find the best price
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Filed under: iPhone , App Review Barcodescan Pro [ iTunes Link ] is an app that uses the autofocus camera of an iPhone running OS 3.1 or better to scan a bar code and provide a variety of information on the product including pictures, high and low prices and more depending upon how much information is in the Barcodescan database. To scan a ...
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James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
The Joys of Amazon
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I've never really enjoyed the mall experience - I like bouncing from store to store even less. This doesn't have a lot to do with driving and living in the suburbs; I'd dislike the whole thing just as much in a city riding a subway or bus :) So I was pleasantly surprised this morning to find that my Amazon Prime membership gave me pretty ...
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Jnak
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MSDN
Mike Wickstrand , the director of Windows Azure product planning has put together a site where you can post and vote for Windows Azure ideas: The idea came from the success we had with the Silverlight feature suggestions page and we hope to duplicate that success. Please take the time to go to . ...
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James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
The Joys of Windows
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For all the complaining I did about Snow Leopard, nothing chews up my time like Windows. My wife has a MediaCenter (XP) pc, and since the latest Windows update, it's been locking up after Norton 360 fails. Boy, is fixing that enjoyable...
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Chris Kawalek
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Sun Bloggers
Please Welcome Sun VDI Software 3.1
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Hot on the heels of the Sun Ray Software 5 release, Sun VDI Software 3.1 was just made available ( get it here ). This is an exciting update for us, here is a quick overview of what's new: Microsoft Hyper-V support Previous versions of Sun VDI Software already allowed for heterogeneous virtualization hosts, but we extend this support to include ...
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Nevada Build 128 (snv_128) is now closed and available as BFU or source tarball. This means that those who want to play with ZFS Dedup but don't want to build from source can give it a go. It should be said that there have been a lot of exciting enhancements to Nevada over the last couple of builds. Here are some of the changes in the last ...
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Sun Bloggers
Recent FMA Work
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Well it's been over 15 months since my last blog entry so I thought I'd take the time to provide an update on some of the FMA work I've been doing in the interim - broken down by the Solaris Nevada build that the work was integrated into : Build 98 6735704 deadlock in topo_node_facility() 6735691 deadlock in topo_node_facbind() 6743070 libtopo: ...
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Thomas McNeely
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Sun Bloggers
Building xVMs on iSCSI - Part 2: First Install
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Building xVMs on iSCSI Part 2: First Install (Golden Image) Continued from Part 1, Now we will put those fancy iSCSI volumes to use. Fixing iscsi-disk (alias handling) There is a problem with the way that iSCSI aliases are handled (BUG: 6892072 ). It is fixed in snv_128, but for now, its such a simple change that we can make it ourselves instead ...
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Sajay
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Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud
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at PDC09 in Los Angeles this week and got a great opportunity to get a guided tour of a piece of the Windows Azure Cloud from Patrick Yantz , a Cloud Architect with Data Center Services. You may think it's a Cloud Container, but it's not! Join me on this very technical 15 minute deep dive inside the making of the hardware behind the ...
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