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September 2010

Marvell simplifies Plug Computing for developers with new installation tool

September 29, 2010

By Tim Conneally, Betanews As powerful chips are being made physically smaller, cheaper, and significantly less energy consumptive than previous generations, they can be used in places where computers hadn’t gone before. More tasks can be automated and measured, more systems can be networked together, and machines can generally get a lot “smarter.” This is [...]

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DIY Laptop Repairs and Upgrades: Fixing a Screen or Going Headless [Video]

September 29, 2010

Is there life for laptops after a screen goes dead? Absolutely. You can replace a laptop screen for much less than official service or a full replacement, or turn your laptop into a very space-efficient desktop computer with a cheap monitor. More » Lifehacker: windows

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DPM backup of Exchange databases can fail because of Exchange circular logging

September 29, 2010

Just a quick note on an issue we’ve seen a time or two here in DPM product support.  Backup administrators who have scheduled System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backups for Microsoft Exchange databases might run into backup failures if circular logging is turned on for those Exchange databases. In such cases, DPM incremental backups [...]

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Configuration Improvements in Outlook Web App / Instant Messenger integration in Exchange Server 2010 SP1

September 29, 2010

Brief History Exchange Server 2010 RTM is the first version of Exchange that allows integration between Outlook Web App and Office Communications Server’s instant message capabilities. The RTM steps to configure the Instant Messenger integration between Office Communications Server and Exchange were as follows: 1. Configure Office Communication Server 2007 R2 Add Exchange Server’s name(s) [...]

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AD LDS Schema Files Demystified

September 29, 2010

Hi, Russell here. When installing Active Directory Lightweight Domain Services (AD LDS) instances, it is quite possible to paint oneself into a corner rather quickly. That’s because LDS comes with minimal schema definitions. To truly make LDS useful to your applications, one must have an understanding of how best to take advantage of the included [...]

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New RealPlayer adds mobile-friendly features

September 29, 2010

(Credit: RealNetworks) In its rather successful attempts to keep up with the video-hungry masses, RealNetworks started adding some attention-grabbing improvements to its RealPlayer multimedia app last year. First, the software slapped on the ability to quickly and easily download videos from the Web and transcode them to various devices.Then, earlier this year, the company threw [...]

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Working 16bit ALU Implemented in Minecraft

September 29, 2010

There are some things in this world that just happen. There’s really no logical reason for it to happen, there’s no explanation as to why it happens now, and not, say, three years ago. Minecraft is one those things. It’s a game, but not entirely. It’s digital Lego, but not entirely. It’s impossible to explain [...]

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Painting by Numbers

September 29, 2010

The MMPC came across an interesting piece of social engineering today that embeds a malicious script, which has been observed circulating on 4chan message boards. On further investigation, it became apparent that this is the next stage in the evolution of a threat known as 4chan.js that has been around since 2008. This scenario relies [...]

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How To Pin A Hard Drive To Your Taskbar

September 29, 2010

The Task bar in Windows 7 is dead handy, it’s great for accessing folders, files and programs quickly. However, it’s not so easy to quickly access a hard drive from it. I’m afraid it’s not as easy as simply dragging the drive to your task bar like it is with other programs. You need to [...]

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How To Identify Bad Items In Public Folder Replication

September 29, 2010

As I’ve previously discussed here and here, there are various things that will prevent an item from replicating to an Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 public folder store – things like bad start/end dates on appointments, category names that contain certain characters, etc. However, once you’ve figured out that replication is failing because of one [...]

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