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Thursday, 08 May 2008 19:50 |
 Within hours of its release, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their PCs. The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft's Windows XP message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes. "My external disks are having trouble starting up, which results in Windows not starting up," complained user Michael Faklis, in a post Wednesday. "After three attempts [to install XP SP3] with different configurations each time, System Restore was the only way to get me out of deep s**t," said 'Doug W'. Another user said the service pack prevented him from starting his computer. "I downloaded and installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals," wrote 'Paul'. "Now I can't get the computer to boot." Dozens of other posters reported similar problems. It's not uncommon for major operating system updates to cause problems. Typically, the glitches are due to conflicts with software, such as drivers, system files, or applications already resident on the user's PC. Microsoft has yet to indicate whether it will issue an update to address some of the problems, though it has done so with previous updates. |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 19:48 |
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 SAN FRANCISCO -- AMD today offered industry observers a look at a very different roadmap for the next two years of its server processors, changing its plans from just a few months ago to focus on offerings that will scale to up to 12 cores without increasing power demands.
In the process, AMD (NYSE: AMD) also will embrace an idea it has ridiculed for years: the multi-chip module (MCM). One thing that remains the same is the next iteration of quad-core Opterons, codenamed "Shanghai." Due later this year, these will be 45nm, a die shrink from the 65nm process used in the current crop, Barcelona. Shanghai also will be designed to fit in existing servers with the same Socket F design used by Opteron processors today. The processors will have 6MB of L3 cache, three times Barcelona's cache, and will support 800MHz DDR2 memory. The chips will also come with AMD-V, a virtualization technology for better processor clock scheduling. Clock speeds were not disclosed. |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 19:47 |
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Do you use Google? Could you get along without it for a week? I tried it, and dubbed it Google Fasting. There’s no way I could do that again. It was really tough, believe it or not. I got an email from Mike recently, that raised a thought-provoking question about Google’s power. Do you feel the power of Google is good for the Internet? With one search engine being used so often, there becomes a potential for abuse. As we become a society who gets our news and history over the Internet, is Google in a position to filter what we know and how much? I read awhile back that a pre-condition of China using Google was that search results could not return any information about the Tiananmen Square incident. More recently, China blocked access to YouTube in the wake of a Tibetan protests. If governments and search engines can weild such power over the Internet, they can effectively remake history, and shape issues of the day. |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 19:45 |
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 Recently, Opera's developers have been touting it as the most compliant browser with Web standards. Now they're using that as leverage to help introduce Dragonfly, a tool they hope will promote Opera as a kind of standards watchdog.
Easily among the most useful and well thought-out extensions to Mozilla Firefox has been Firebug, an add-on by independent developer Joe Hewitt which instantly converts any active Web site into a fully-fledged JavaScript/XHTML/CSS/DOM diagnosis studio. You can see why an element is parsed and laid out the way it is by pointing at it, and letting Firebug take you to the code in question. Up until now, no tool with similar functionality and reliability has existed within the browser context; Microsoft's Web development tools are centered around Visual Studio and Expression. Today, it's Opera which is changing that picture, with the introduction of its own live development environment add-on called Dragonfly, whose alpha version was released yesterday. It's produced by the Opera team itself, is recommended for recent builds of version 9.5, and is being billed not only as a Web development environment but also as a standards conformance tool. |
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 18:38 |
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 Security company Trend Micro have warned of a new phishing scam, this one involving Google AdWords and designed to steal information. But it’s indicative on increased attacks on all fronts on Google.
Just when you thought phishing might be under control, the scammers have come up with a new wrinkle. This one, according to security company Trend Micro, involves Google AdWords. Here’s how it works: targets receive an e-mail stating that their last AdWords payment hasn’t gone through. In order to correct the error, they need to update their payment information. The link in the mail appears legitimate, but actually leads to a compromised site. |
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 18:31 |
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 Two of the single most begged for features for PowerShell, the devastatingly useful scripting tool now made an integral part of Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007, are being addressed in the Community Technology Preview for version 2.0.
As Microsoft now confirms, there will be a unique graphical front end for editing scripts and running commands and cmdlets (compiled PowerShell keywords). And yes, Virginia, there will be a newly supported remote link to servers running Server Core, the new minimal Windows installation introduced in WS2K8. PowerShell can't run on Server Core natively because it requires the .NET Framework, which Microsoft has considered exporting to a command-line-only version, though it has yet to provide a roadmap for such a version. But Server Core systems are meant to be left running and then left alone anyway, and existing Microsoft management tools can run graphically on remote machines, monitoring and managing multiple Server Core installations simultaneously. |
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