Archive for July, 2009
Windows 7 Beta Expires Saturday
Are you still running the original Windows 7 beta? Take note ‘“ it expires tomorrow. Bi-hourly shutdowns of the Microsoft beta already started on July 1, but it officially goes dark on Saturday. Users should consider switching to the Windows 7 …
Read More..>>One Cool ISO: Fully Automated Nagios
Digg But one distro really stands out in my testing and field work: Fully Automated Nagios (FAN). I could insert a cheesy Gene Shalit tag line like; “You be a Fan of FAN” but it’s Friday I am just thinking about my upcoming Beer Summit today with …
Read More..>>Microsoft Bridges SQL Server 2008 and MapPoint 2009
Microsoft is now offering customers the possibility to bridge MapPoint 2009 and SQL Server 2008 via the MapPoint Add-In for SQL Server. The add-in streamlines the processes of data visualization and manipulation on a MapPoint map. The data needs to …
Read More..>>Malware served up thanks to solar eclipse
In a reprise of an old trick, cybercriminals are using SEO poisoning to attract victims to a rogue software site, according to Trend Micro. When a user seaches for information on the recent solar eclipse, the results may contain links to scareware …
Read More..>>Twitter, Linux, Red Hat, Microsoft ‘honored’ with Pwnie Awards
Think of the annual Pwnie Awards delivered at the Black Hat conference as a geek version of the Oscars ‘“ if they were combined with the tongue-in-cheek Razzies that celebrate the worst of Hollywood.  10 networkiest movies of all time Twitter …
Read More..>>Adobe patches 12 Flash bugs, 3 caused by Microsoft
Computerworld – Adobe on Thursday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including three it inherited from faulty Microsoft development code and one that hackers have been exploiting for at least a week. In a security advisory published Thursday …
Read More..>>MacBook Air-style netbook available in Singapore next week
Take the MacBook Air, shrink the screen down an inch, slap in some netbook components, and load it up with Windows 7 Release Candidate and ‘” drumroll, please ‘” you’ve got the iiView A2 out of Singapore. Oh, and lower the price to $468. That’s …
Read More..>>A Linux credit card
It seems likely that the Foundation was brought the deal by CardPartner , a New York company that has launched over 100 affinity programs in the last year, all managed by UMB, and is pioneering affinity deals with smaller charities like Gilda’s …
Read More..>>Undeteced ide hd in os xp? but bios see it > wtf
how do i manualy correct an undetected ide hardrive in windows xp it wont do it for me! plug and play ,my ass notes: the bios detects both ide hard drives and the host os sata drive windows only see the sata drive disk manager canot find any ide …
Read More..>>Ingres Gooses its Database
Ingres, the open source database company, claims it’s achieved more than 10x performance gains running data on Intel’s Nehalem chip, well, at least some data. The breakthrough was made by the VectorWise project, Ingres’ collaboration with …
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