Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
If you are like me and obsessed about security, then you might find that your PC is sitting behind a firewall with no direct outbound web access. That is other than through an proxy server of some sorts like the Linux based squid. What happens is the Window Live ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
After seeing a post that the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V bits are now feature complete in the form of Release Candidate 0 (RC0), I decided its time to get a machine up and running to play with it. I decided to go with a Server Core installation instead of the ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Just announced at MIX'08, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote completes. It looks like they've added some very cool new features with sites like Ebay and Facebook already taking advantage of them. I kinda like the idea of having my friend's status updates ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Check out this post which details all the download links for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Yay! Naturally this includes an update runtime, an SDK, the source code to the new controls, documentation, some tools for Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression Blend 2.1 March Preview. [tags]Silverlight[/tags]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Well things seem to be picking up for Microsoft's Silverlight technology. I enjoyed Silverlight 1.0 but detest JavaScript so my attention immediately turned to the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha build that came out last year at MIX'07. Awesome stuff, managed code in the browser with a lightweight multi-platform ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The latest and greatest CTP of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) is now available for download and testing. This is commonly referred to as CTP6 and is the first update since CTP5 in November 2007. You can download the CTP6 bits over here. To find out what is new and ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Both the Windows Server and Windows Vista teams released new builds today. The much-awaited Windows Server 2008, formerly known by the code-name Longhorn Server, was released to manufacturing today, as was the highly anticipated service pack 1 update to Windows Vista. If you are running Windows Vista you can ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Recently we decided to put up a virtual Linux server in one of our hosting environments. The host machine is a Windows Server 2003 x64 edition running Virtual Server 2005 R2 x64 SP1. We chose to install CentOS 5.1 which is community Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I just have to take my hat off to the Microsoft Windows Server team. If you haven't seen it yet I suggest you go take a peek at the The Lone Server Story featuring a humourous take on the last Windows Server 2003 server serving the microsoft.com website. ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Sometimes Windows can be a complete pain, well Windows XP specifically. Today my colleague presented me with an spy-ware issue on his PC that he needed help with removing. After trying the usual tools like HijackThis it became clear that this little critter wasn't going to be going away that ...
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