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Microsoft delivers new patching tools
Date: 06/08/05 (Security) Keywords: microsoft
More than a year behind schedule, the company launches Microsoft Update service and a companion patching tool for businesses.
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Three Licensing Strategies
Date: 06/08/05 (Open Source) Keywords: microsoft
Last week I described the concept of open source licensing as strategy, mainly from a theoretical viewpoint.Let's see how it works in the real world, "ripped from the headlines" as they say.In Europe Microsoft is trying to give open source minimal openings. They seem to have settled their anti-trust dispute with the European Commission, and [...]
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=322&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
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Microsoft sets route for Longhorn, delivers patch tools
Date: 06/08/05 (Application Development) Keywords: software, microsoft
News Focus: At Microsoft's TechEd Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer leads the charge--promising new software tools to make IT more productive.
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Could Apple loss be IBM's gain?
Date: 06/09/05 (Open Source) Keywords: microsoft
A lot has been written this week about Apple's switch from IBM to Intel chips.Not a lot has been written about what IBM might do now.According to John Spooner of eWeek the answer is open source. The chip business is moving in two directions at once, toward mass production and mass customization.A Microsoft order for [...]
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=325&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
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Question about VS extensibility and C#
Date: 06/09/05 (C Sharp) Keywords: html, asp, microsoft
I've been trying for a while to access the linker object's mapfile setting for a project in Visual Studio .NET via the extensibility model. I'm writing in C#.
Microsoft has this to say about it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcext/html/vxl rfvcprojectenginelibraryvclinkertoolmapf ilename.asp
The example code they provide is for VB .NET, and goes something like this:
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Imports EnvDTE
Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine
Public Module Module1
Sub Test()
Dim prj As VCProject
Dim cfgs, tools As IVCCollection
Dim cfg As VCConfiguration
Dim tool As VCLinkerTool
prj = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1).Object
cfgs = prj.Configurations
cfg = cfgs.Item(1)
tool = cfg.Tools("VCLinkerTool")
tool.GenerateMapFile = True
tool.MapFileName = "my.map"
End Sub
End Module
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I tried to adapt some of this to C#, but the compiler can't find the Microsoft.VisualStudio namespace, and it doesn't show up in the auto-complete list. Of course, none of the data types are recognized either (VCProject, IVCCollection, etc.). All other documentation I've seen leads me to this problem. Does anyone know of another way to access a project's active mapfile setting?Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/csharp/31119.html
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Microsoft preps 'critical' Windows patch
Date: 06/09/05 (Security) Keywords: security, microsoft
Next week's security bulletin will deliver 10 fixes, at least one high-priority patch for Microsoft's OS among them.
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XBox 360 - Reaching 1 billion people? - Interesting interview of J Allard, Microsoft Corporate Vice President
Date: 06/01/05 (Java Web) Keywords: microsoft
J Allard (Microsoft Corporate Vice President), who heads Microsoft's video-game efforts, has boldly predicted that one billion people will eventually play games on the new console. In an interesting interview J Allard provides rather insightful comments on XBox 360 and on Microsoft's viewpoints in general. I think you are going to enjoy this. On being asked [...]
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MS to EU: Trust us, we've never seen a loophole we liked
Date: 06/13/05 (Open Source) Keywords: microsoft
The court didn't buy the "I'm too smart to have done that" argument, but the Europeans may have just done it to themselves too -and face the same bottom line Apple did: getting exactly nothing from Microsoft.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=329&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
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Siemens tackles Microsoft IPTV dominance
Date: 06/13/05 (Web Technology) Keywords: microsoft
As complications cloud Microsoft's IPTV tests in Europe, Siemens could advance in the market there, in Asia and in the rural U.S.
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'Trusted displays' suggested as online security boost
Date: 06/14/05 (Security) Keywords: microsoft
Microsoft researcher says smart card readers and USB tokens could further secure e-commerce with a screen to approve transactions.
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IE7 being developed to resist spyware
Date: 06/14/05 (Security) Keywords: software, browser, spyware, microsoft
Next version of Microsoft's browser is being built to derail hijacking attempts by spyware and other malicious software.
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From Ingres to EnterpriseDB
Date: 06/14/05 (Open Source) Keywords: microsoft
Oracle is not universally beloved, and is at serious risk of seeing its market retire as more and more systems decision making falls to younger people whose first loyalties might be to Microsoft or Open Source, instead of to IBM or Oracle. That's the market enterpriseDB is going after, and by all reports I've seen so far, they might well have the product to do it.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=331&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
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Fixes in for critical IE, Windows flaws
Date: 06/14/05 (Security) Keywords: microsoft
Three of the 10 bulletins in Microsoft's monthly batch of patches deals with three holes that could let intruders take over a PC.
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Generic Host Process Error.
Date: 06/15/05 (Computer Geeks) Keywords: microsoft
Hi there.
Lately, my precious Fred (laptop running at Centrino 1.5, 256MB of RAM) has been starting up with Windows XP wanting to send out an error report for a Generic Host Process Win32 error. I've been ignoring it for a while, & this morning, I just got too tired of it & sent the error report. It turns out there's some bug in Service Pack 2, & there's this hotfix which could fix the darned thing.
But, I don't know anything about this update. Is it okay, or should I wait until the next SP release? It's not doing anything wrong to my PC, really, since the error, according to Microsoft, happens during the shut down process. I just want to know if anyone has been experiencing the same thing & what are the steps you took. Or, what would be the best action: download the hotfix or just ignore the problem?
Thanks for your time! :)
Cross-posted at!['[info]']('http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif')
computersupport.Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/707679.html
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Computer will not shut down / enter standby
Date: 06/15/05 (Computer Help) Keywords: security, spyware, microsoft
Alllllllllllllllllllllrighty-then...
Please forgive me... the results list is a bit long...
For a little while now, my computer has refused to enter Standby or Shut Down completely. In both cases, it will try to do one of the two, and then freeze. It is becoming highly annoying. I have WinXP - SP2. I have Norton Internet Security 2005, Norton Systemworks 2005, and Norton GoBack 4.0. I suspect it might be one of these, seeing as it started happening shortly after they were installed. I also have Ad-Aware SE Professional 1.06r1, Spybot S&D 1.4, HiackThis v1.99.1, and Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 (which is going to expire at the end of July...). They have detected the following:
RESULTS (it was too long to post here... this is hosted on my FTP server)Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/419153.html
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DivX releases new, high-quality video format
Date: 06/16/05 (Web Technology) Keywords: technology, microsoft
Is the technology better than Apple's or Microsoft's? That's what the upstart video company says.
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Daniel Robbins' long journey to Redmond
Date: 06/16/05 (Open Source) Keywords: microsoft
Given his skills and his need to support a family, Robbins is a perfect fit for Microsoft. He will spend his time advising Microsoft product teams on open source development, testing, and deployment issues.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=338&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
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Netscape sends out another patch
Date: 06/18/05 (Security) Keywords: microsoft
Second update in a month for Netscape 8 fixes a bug that broke the rendering of certain files in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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Database quandry..
Date: 06/20/05 (MySQL Communtiy) Keywords: mysql, database, sql, microsoft
Ok see if you can wrap your head around this.. I've been hired as a contractor by this company that wants to A: Network all their computers, and B: Have all their customer data/information available to all employees on a database that can be easily read and updated.
I figured I had 2 options: Microsoft Access and MySQL. With Access, its a relatively easy interface to use and their database needs aren't very great, but I run into problems with sharing the database and its integrity (I've read that sharing an Access DB on a network is a big no-no) and redundant data. I've read about SPLITTING the database, but I don't know if that allows for easy updating of the database.
MySQL appears to be a powerful option that will allow for numerous concurrent users and seems to allow for easy data entry/updating without jeopardizing the integrity of the DB. On teh downside though, I know VERY little about how MySQL works, not to mention that I can't seem to find a decent user-frontend available to download and install on all the client machines so they can update/query the db themselves. I'm a decent programmer, but I don't know if I want to tell these guys that I'd have to WRITE my own frontend for them to use, especially since I don't think I'd be able to provide proper support for them..
So given all of this, what would u all suggest I do? I know you guys are probably more partial towards mySQL, but I don't want to put this company at risk just so I can do a test run of mySQL and how it works. On the other hand though, Access may not be enough for these guys needs especially if the company really starts to take off (right now we're talking less than 10 people using 1 DB)
I just don't want to go into this company again and when they ask me for me to go and say, "I don't know what to do about your data needs." I'd at least like to have a realistic view of our options.Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/60190.html
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Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology
Date: 06/23/05 (Security) Keywords: technology, spam, microsoft
MSN and Hotmail will flag e-mail without a Sender ID tag, a move critics see as Microsoft forcing its antispam technology onto the world.
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