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Flashy Windows 7 bits protected by elaborate scheme, workaround
Rafael Rivera: During PDC ‘08, I was passed a note indicating that I should dig deeper into the bits to discover the snazzy new Taskbar. Upon cursory analysis, I found no evidence of such and dismissed the idea as completely bogus.
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I got home and starting doing some research on a potentially new feature called Aero [...] -
Successor to SQL 2008 is codenamed "Kilimanjaro"
Brad Anderson, general manager of the Management and Services division at Microsoft, announced the successor to SQL 2008; codenamed SQL Server "Kilimanjaro" and SQL Self Service Analysis codenamed "Gemini" today at the Teched EMEA 2008 IT Pro keynote.
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Christian Petculescu, principal architect for the SQL team, was invited to stage. He demo’d SQL "gemini", loading million [...] -
CCleaner version 2.13
Click here to visit the CCleaner.com site and download
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CCleaner version 2.13 has just been released, we’ve added support for Firefox 3.1 and other additional improvements listed below.
CCleaner v2.13.720Added support for Firefox 3.1.
Added right-click cleaning and analysis for individual items in the tree.
Added icons to tree parent items.
Added cleaning for Windows Error Reporting files.
Added Include/Exclude list [...] -
CCleaner version 2.13
Click here to visit the CCleaner.com site and download
Quote:
CCleaner version 2.13 has just been released, we’ve added support for Firefox 3.1 and other additional improvements listed below.
CCleaner v2.13.720Added support for Firefox 3.1.
Added right-click cleaning and analysis for individual items in the tree.
Added icons to tree parent items.
Added cleaning for Windows Error Reporting files.
Added Include/Exclude list [...] -
Vista Desktop Licensing Plan Has Its Virtues, Gartner Says
Windows licensing took an evolutionary turn in early September when Microsoft announced two new licensing options under its Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) program. The program allows IT administrators to move the OS to other PCs (or Macs) using virtual machine (VM) technology.
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This week, Gartner published an analysis on the new licensing, describing the options [...] -
IE8 Performance
Christian Stockwell: In the past few months, each of the browser makers has made very similar claims around their performance: “Superior speed and performance”, “The fastest and most powerful Web browser available”, and “The fastest web browser on any platform.” In some fundamental way, I think the likeness of these statements is a by-product of [...]
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Analyse your Source Code
I recently gave Microsoft Source Analysis a try. It was released sometime ago, and act’s as an add-in in Visual Studio to check the source code with some coding rules. This is different from FxCop which checks assemblies. This checks your source code before it is compiled right in Visual Studio editor.I did like the [...]
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Nessus Vulnerability Scanner in openSUSE
The Nessus vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. Nessus can also be used for ad-hoc scanning, daily scans, and [...]