Yes, it’s true if you live in Canada - I don’t know if there are similar deals in other countries. You or your company must be a Microsoft Partner or higher. What are you waiting for? Watch some video, get training, and get swag! You’ll have to do some training anyways [...]
Disclaimers and Warnings
This guide was written specifically about Windows XP and Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder version 2.01, but should also work on Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and with newer versions of MJBK.
Read all of this guide carefully and back up your data before starting the Product Key recovery. I’m assuming you have [...]
Coke machines run Windows? Thanks to The Raw Feed for the photo.
Please see my earlier post here. Microsoft has identified one cause of an endless reboot occurring after an attempt to upgrade a computer from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Another upgrader has found another cause for the reboot loop.
MS found that folders in the My Documents folder with a path length that is [...]
On Monday (December 16, 2009), NASA will begin transmitting commands to the Mars rover Spirit in an attempt to free it. Spirit has been stuck in soft soil since May 1, 2009 - there’s a great picture (created from combined images) of its track through the Martian soil here. NASA has been monitoring [...]
Here’s a little device that will reduce the number of cables you carry. ThinkGeek is selling this Ethernet crossover adapter for $7.99 US plus shipping and handling. It converts an ordinary ethernet cable into a crossover cable. A crossover cable is used when you want to connect two computers to each other [...]
Microsoft is currently trying to resolve why some users’ attempts to upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista results in an endless reboot loop with the computer not updated to the new version and unable to restore Vista. Some of the borked computers may have had corrupted downloads of the Windows 7 upgrade software [...]
Windows 7 will be released publicly on October 22, 2009 - unless you buy a ‘white box’ computer - then you can get it on October 13, 2009.
Microsoft has released the official Upgrade Chart for migrating from Windows XP or Windows Vista to 7.
BUT:
Upgrading an OS is like taking the chassis out from under a [...]
Ice underground on Mars and water molecules on the Moon were found today - amazing!
Photo courtesy of NASA
I can’t judge - but it sounds amaZING!
Jennifer Chu of Technology Review writes:
A new approach primes antibodies to instantly attack cancers, HIV, and other diseases.
The body’s immune system is often likened to an army, and vaccines to training exercises…
After seeing the features included with the Pomegranite smart phone, I think so:
But it’s a very clever promotion.
Vista is the Windows version to bypass - like Windows Mistake Edition (ME) was. The combination of Microsoft having to pull employees off of Vista to help write XP Service Pack 2 and discovering that the XP code base was unusable (Vista was written from scratch) meant that MS released a typical first effort in [...]
Remember the news stories a few months ago about the flaw in DNS that was discovered by Dan Kaminsky? This article from MIT’s Technology Review magazine explains the discovery and the decisions taken to patch and explain the vulnerability in an article that is a good overview of what happened.
Dan Kaminsky, uncharacteristically, was not [...]
Microsoft Research has come up with a pixel design for a flat panel display that will be faster, brighter, more power efficient, and easier and simpler to fabricate, which should make it cheaper. Each pixel switches in 1.5 milliseconds, compared to 20 - 45 ms in LCD displays. For more info, check this [...]
Terry Childs is a 43 year old network administrator for the city of San Francisco. They pay him a $127,735-a-year salary - plus he made an additional $22,534 last year in overtime for coming in to cover emergency situations.
He was part of a team that built a fibre WAN that now stores [...]
I was reading the latest edition of Vista News when this caught my eye:
Is there a way to fix Vista Explorer’s address box?
QUESTION:
Okay, I know it’s a “feature” but I hate it - the new format for the path/address in Vista Explorer. I want my old familiar format (c:\Data\Publications\New) instead of the new one with [...]
I’m not sure if this is for real - but you will be able to find his email address if you’re smart enough…
Yea! Not to be cruel - I preferred Netscape back in the IE4/Netscape 4 days, even though Netscape 4 crashed - a LOT. But - Netscape has been consistently slow to patch its security flaws since version 6 was released. I believe that the quicker release of security updates for Firefox, Mozilla, [...]
To get this e-book you will have to sign up for some Microsoft offers - whether it’s as a Microsoft Certified Partner, as a System Builder, or in some other program - I don’t know. But if you walk the correct path :-) you won’t have to pay anything as I’m not currently [...]
Microsoft has released a new version of Internet Explorer 7 that “addresses customer feedback by removing the Windows Genuine Advantage check”. FINALLY! It makes the internet safer for all of us if the hacked versions of Windows can install IE7 too. Download it here.
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