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Interesting Vista Music vs. Network article [Interesting Vista Music vs. Network article]

MB — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:57:15 GMT

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=702

This is naturally the type of thing the Inquirer and the other "Tabloid" sites live for.

The original thread on 2CPU.COM is interesting more for the number of posters who immediately decided the cause was DRM... 'cos it's got it's fingers in everywhere dude !!

Nevertheless, I'm sort of curious as to what it's about and what's causing it.

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Lenovo goes XP and TP for Olympics [Lenovo goes XP and TP for Olympics]

MB — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:15:44 GMT

I see that Lenovo have announced No Vista and No Wireless support for their Olympics sponsorship.

They've chosen Win-XP and Twisted-Pair only.

The tried and tusted approach, I guess.

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Endeavour... your printer is off-line... [Endeavour... your printer is off-line...]

MB — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:19:32 GMT

Just listening to the space-shuttle broadcast and was bemused to hear the same hassles that annoy every network manager... Hey, you guys, we need to print something and your network printer isn't responding... could you check it please?? ...Ok Huston... Ah the printer was turned off... ...please try again... ...Ok Endeavour... and BTW, could you guys clean up your outlook inbox ?? ...LOL

Of course, on a more serious note... they are also busy discussing the issue of the damaged heat shield and working out how they are going to deal with it.

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Recommendations: IIS Website Log Analyser [Recommendations: IIS Website Log Analyser]

MB — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:34:29 GMT

I’ve been trying to find the “perfect” log-file analysis and stats package for an IIS server, and am still searching.

On the off-chance that someone has already found it... I want:

Log Analyser engine that runs as an NT-Service on the Web-Server
Preferably store the analysis data into an SQL-Server
Access the reports via website, preferably ASP.NET based (see above SQL-Server preference)
Allow me to provide reporting to my customers on a secure site-by-site basis.

Basically, I host a number of sites which I develop for my customers, that are very specific to their needs, and for which I create specific campaigns on a regular basis.

I want them to be able to access the stats for their sites (so they have immediate feedback on what’s happening) via secure pages on their own site, and not require me to intervene or to manage the process on a day-to-day basis.

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Apple Shares drop 6% on AT&T activation numbers [Apple Shares drop 6% on AT&T activation numbers]

MB — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:02:46 GMT

Who the hell knows what this means... I sure don't.

Nevertheless, AT&T released the activation figures for the first weekend -- 146,000 -- which were quite a ways short of the anticipated 500,000... technical problems or not.

I'll be interesting to see what the market makes of Apple's Q3 statement, but it looks a bit like a reality check might be forthcoming.

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Dave Cutler Video ?? [Dave Cutler Video ??]

MB — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:16:48 GMT

I know that he has a reputation for not giving interviews, but... I would nonetheless love to see an interview with Dave Cutler.

The guy's credentials are amazing... and he must surely be one of, if not the, most significant influence in the development of Microsoft.

I'm sure he could relate any number of interesting stories about the history of all 3 operating systems (RSX-11, VMS and Win-NT) that he was involved in designing.

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Anandtech guys rip apart an iPhone [Anandtech guys rip apart an iPhone]

MB — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:35:05 GMT

I love when these guys do this stuff... totally destroy something, just to see what makes it tick.

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3026

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XP-SP3 [XP-SP3]

MB — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:26:50 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/servicepacks.mspx

SP3 for Windows XP Professional is currently planned for 1H CY2008. This date is preliminary.

...and the point would be ??

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MS-BT for Windows-2003-EE ?? [MS-BT for Windows-2003-EE ??]

MB — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:07:45 GMT

Hi All,

I finally bit the bullet and wiped VISTA from my system... as my doctor advised me that it was endangering my health... ;)

Truth be known... it crashed, again, and took the system disk with it... and I simply don't have the interest in playing the MS Beta-Bunny game any more.

So... after much contemplation, and sorting through what I had in my MSDN bag of tricks... I decided that Windows Server 2003-EE R2... was the tool for me and my Workstation... and everything went well until the final reboot... when my MS Optical Elite Blue-tooth desktop stops communicating with the system.

Much googling (and a hard-wired KB/Mouse) later, and I find that I am faced with the problem of MS apparently making a unilateral decision not to support Blue-Tooth on Win-2003-EE... as apparently MS figured that nobody would ever want to use their MS desktop with Windows-2003... WTF ??

So... now my much beloved MS Optical Elite Desktop for BT-2.0 is a just a pile of expensive plastic sitting in the corner... as I try to re-aquaint myself with a standard keyboard (god, it took me years to learn the MS unilateral standard for keyboard layouts... and now I keep hitting the wrong keys).

Anyways... I've tried a number of hacks to get the XP-SP2 BT stack to run, but so far, nothing works... I can get the BT installer to run and complete installing, with apparent success, but the device manager still reports that the driver is not compatible... and I've got the big yellow ?!

If anyone has experience with solving this one, I'd be ever so grateful.

Cheers.

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