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Moore’s Law is a fiction invented by Intel. They put those little ‘heat sinks’ on top of processors, but actually they’re not heat sinks. Intel has been fooling us; processors aren’t actually getting faster. Those ‘heat sinks’ are actually little chronon distillers that remove chronons (particles of...
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Those cunning Japanese have figured out a great way to commemorate Windows 7 General Availability: The Windows 7 Whopper! TiGra Networks was involved in beta testing Windows 7m so we’ve been running it as our main operating system since early this year. As is our company policy, on day 1 of general availability...
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Since the original computer bug shown in the image was documented by Grace Hopper , computer software sometimes fails in mysterious ways. This is frustrating for end users and developers alike, but there are a few do’s and don’ts that will get the problem fixed faster. I’m placing this here as something...
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Filed under: Software Engineering, HowTo, Hacks, Beta Testing, Windows, Windows Vista, Home Computing, Technology, Help Me, Troubleshooting, Workarounds, Debugging, Hints and Tips, .NET, C#, Visual Studio, Bugs, Windows 7, D'oh!
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Many business start-ups that I speak to are either one or two person micro-businesses, often their IT consists of a personal laptop, upon which is stored their entire company. Accounts, customer databases, marketing collateral, email, everything, all on that one fragile, vulnerable laptop hard drive...
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The buzz around Windows 7 is really positive, in contrast to the luke-warm reaction that Windows Vista received. Just check out the Twitter keyword #Windows7 to see what I mean. Right from the first moment I saw Windows 7 beta, several months ago, I characterised it as “Windows Vista – finished”. While...
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Fri, Jul 24 2009
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Microsoft will deliver Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code to partners in the second half of July. Windows 7 will become generally available on Oct. 22, 2009, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be broadly available at the same time. Windows Server 2008 R2 was previously known as Windows 7 Server. More details...
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Microsoft will deliver Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code to partners in the second half of July. Windows 7 will become generally available on Oct. 22, 2009, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be broadly available at the same time. Windows Server 2008 R2 was previously known as Windows 7 Server. More details...
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The magic word is “4 Gigabytes”. That’s the maximum amount of memory addressable by a 32-bit processor. So you might think that 64-bit becomes a sensible choice when you want more than 4Gb of RAM in your computer and 32-bit for 4Gb or less. We know from experience that 4Gb is a very comfortable fit for...
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Kudos to the BBC this week for (in my opinion) the best episode ever of Click , the BBC’s technology magazine programme. In this special edition of the programme, Spencer Kelly presents the results of a six month investigation into hacking and cyber crime. The programme demonstrates, for the first time...
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Kudos to the BBC this week for (in my opinion) the best episode ever of Click , the BBC’s technology magazine programme. In this special edition of the programme, Spencer Kelly presents the results of a six month investigation into hacking and cyber crime. The programme demonstrates, for the first...
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Sun, Mar 15 2009
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Every now and then, a new piece of technology comes along that changes the way you work. Many of you will have seen me scribbling notes at the various meetings and events I have attended on my Tablet PC. The built-in handwriting recognition, together with Microsoft Office OneNote, made it the ideal tool...
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MSDN Channel 9 is running a series titled The History of Microsoft , beginning in 1975 when Bill Gates and Paul Allen produced their first ever product, a BASIC interpreter running on the Altair 8800. At the time, the name Microsoft hadn’t even been decided upon. In this frame from the video about 1975...
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Following reports of increased virus activity, specifically concerning the Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup virus, Microsoft has taken the unusual step of asking prominent members of its technical communities – such as MVPs – to circulate advice to the public. TiGra Networks does not normally recommend forwarding...
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If you’re wondering what the next version of Microsoft Windows will look like and what features are in store, you may be interested in the series of articles being posted by Tim Long, TiGra’s principal technology specialist and Microsoft MVP , over on his personal blog. Tim is busy beta-testing Windows...
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I had a request from someone today for Ubuntu Linux in addition to Windows Vista on a new PC I am supplying. My suggestion was to run it as a virtual machine using Virtual PC 2007. I thought I’d better just check that it worked before I made the recommendation and, to my surprise, it didn’t. It seems...