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Lenovo ThinkPad W500 - mini review
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I recently had the opportunity to take a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad W500 (model 4061-2KU). This machine is really similar to my ThinkPad T61p in many ways, but there are some improvements that have been made in some key areas. Click the image...
Want my job?
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Looking for the best job in the entire world? Are you a seasoned veteran of a wide variety of technologies? Do you dig talking to customers in good times and bad? Do you have the passion to be a Microsoft employee on the US IT Pro Evangelist...
Dynamics Roadshow – register now before it’s too late!!!
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The Microsoft Dynamics Customer Roadshow is coming to a location near you! With today’s economic challenges, maximizing the capabilities of your Microsoft Dynamics business management solution is more important than ever. Join Microsoft Dynamics specialists...
UCLA group discovers massive prime number with Windows XP
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LOS ANGELES - Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize. The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running...
ITE’s corner a DPE – Glen Gordon interview
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Check out this interview with Glen Gordon who is a Developer Evangelist in the DPE organization. Glen was on the MSDN team when it was part of my organization so we’ve known him for many years as this point. He’s a funny guy to have around...
Springboard Series – Windows Vista Performance
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WARNING – this is a progressive download video. It is not streamed. Therefore the entire 400MB video is downloaded and played if you click the big START button above. What’d you expect for 60 minutes of video? If you want to download the video and...
The Impact of Groove on Your Network
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The Microsoft Office Groove 2007 client communication architecture is considered a hybrid because the Groove client can communicate directly to peers it discovers on the network, or it can use native network protocols and firewall-friendly ports to communicate...
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Fusion Man !!!
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Virtualization Roadshow – register now before it fills up
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If you have not signed up for the Virtualization Launch Tour that is getting ready to kick off, be sure to sign up fast before all of the seats get reserved. Here’s the agenda and city list for registration. Looks like they are going to have...
Need a life? How about a second? Second Life PowerShell event this Saturday!!!
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This weekend Microsoft is hosting another virtual event on Second Life . Get all of the information on Blain Barton’s blog at http://blogs.technet.com/blainbar/archive/2008/09/19/second-life-windows-powershell-3-part-series-by-max-trinidad.aspx...
New Presidential Write-in Candidate
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Funny stuff courtesy of resident funny man, Kevin Remde .
Looking for your best virtualization bet?
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Think you should get the value of virtualization without a high cost? Microsoft does. Microsoft Virtualization offers a lower TCO, fast time to value, a reduction in system complexity, and a strong partner ecosystem. See the interesting domain @ http...
Halo Wars – still planning to ship
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In case you haven’t heard, Ensemble Studios is shutting down after they ship Halo Wars . This is a sad development for gamers everywhere but I guess it underscores the dominance of the special purpose gaming consoles over the desktop computer and...
Cool Windows vs Walls Wallpapers
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See http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/09/18/life-without-walls-wallpapers-for-your-pc.aspx for some cool wallpapers to cover your desktop. Seems a bit ironic to me.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 downloads
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Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar web browser you are most comfortable using, helping you get everything you want from the web faster, easier, more privately and securely than ever before. Vista and Windows Server 2008 x86 download...
Fedora Samba Installation Guide for AD
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This paper details the installation of a Linux (Fedora 8) Samba server for compatibility with a Windows Active Directory environment. This will allow both Windows users and Linux users access to the same shares during the execution of programs on the...
I am not the target audience
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It always amazes me at the “diversity” of opinion on all matters inside and outside my company. As you might imagine, not only do we scrutinize what our competitors are up to, but we are world class at criticizing ourselves. The new ad campaign...
Pride
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The Pizza Box is coming – Dell Precision M6400 “laptop” details emerge
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Someone sent me an anonymous email with a link to the specs for the Dell Precision M6400 . What was the snitches name in Watergate? It feels like that. Kinda cool. Anyway, you’ll want to grab the .PDF file at Dell's download area...
Windows vs Walls
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A Cray Supercomputer In Every Home
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I think everyone should have sixteen Quad Core Xeon processors in their personal supercomputer, don’t you? I mean come on, think of the lunar rover simulations you could run. And don’t worry about memory starvation in the middle of your oil...
Let’s do the Robot with Bill and Jerry
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Digging the goofy Microsoft commercials? Want to download them and watch them over and over to try and figure out the metaphors in each video? Who does grandma represent? Grin. Here are the links to the videos. Don’t worry about...
Netmon 3.2 download now available
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over 5 years ago
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Network Monitor 3.2 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.2 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.1. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version...
How to stop new phone sales in one easy step!
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You know how technology goes. Just as soon as you are getting ready to plunk your hard earned cash down on a nice new phone, someone announces the next generation that is the “ must have ” device. HTC just did that. Sprint finally launched...
HTC Touch Diamond now available at Sprint
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