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Hyper-V with Server Core — Too Dry and Crunchy for our Taste
We wouldn’t be doing our jobs at VMware if we didn’t regularly compare our products with the competition to ensure our customers get the best technology and user experience possible. In keeping with that practice, we recently set up Microsoft’s Hyper-V to get a first hand look. We made sure to follow Microsoft’s [...]
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The Worlds Hardest Game
Als u denkt dat de 3D-shooter of het racespel dat u momenteel speelt moeilijk is, dan wordt het hoog tijd dat u kennismaakt met The Worlds Hardest Game – dat is pas écht een lastige opgave. Wat TWHG mist aan grafisch geweld maakt het ruimschoots goed in – de naam zegt het al – moeilijkheid. [...]
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Top 10 New Features of Windows Server 2008
As Windows 2008 is now officially released ( and people suspect that the release of Vista SP1 is similar to the codebase of Windows Server 2008 ), it would be nice recap the top new features which are making its way to us. I found this nice article which introduces to some of the fantastic [...]
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MacBook Touch or Apple Tablet Next From Apple?
MacDailyNews recently posted a rumor about a MacBook Touch as an Apple secret product.
Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but [...]
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Helium Remote-Controlled Airborne Jellyfish
This very cool concept of a jelly fish that flies through the air was presented by Festo at the 2008 Hannover Messe in Germany. AirJelly is a radio controlled airborne jellyfish. Here’s an excerpt from the press release.
AirJelly is a remote radio-controlled airborne jellyfish with a central electric drive unit and an intelligent adaptive mechanism.
AirJelly [...]
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Windows, IIS at risk from ‘token kidnapping’
Hosting providers and IT professionals have been warned of a threat posed to Microsoft IIS Web servers through exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems.
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The vulnerability, known as "token kidnapping", is a technique for the elevation of privileges on Windows operating systems. The proof-of-concept for the technique was developed by Cesar Cerrudo, chief executive of [...] -
News – Honda to go Hybrid Crazy in 2009
Honda to go Hybrid Crazy in 2009
Toyota’s Prius may be the poster child for hybrid automobiles in the U.S., but it was Honda who first brought a modern gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle to our shores. The two-seat Insight was introduced in 1999 as a 2000 model and was discontinued in 2006.
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UW researchers control the movement of a humanoid robot with signals from a human brain
A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts. Another sci-fi movie standard depicts robots doing humans’ bidding. Now the two are combined, and in real life: University of Washington (UW) researchers in Seattle, WA can control the movement of a humanoid robot with [...]