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Hush PC

Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Computers on November 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

I really want one of these for my Windows Media Center…. http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=874 The HushPC is completely fan-less and uses passive cooling techniques to cut down on noise pollution in the room (more than I can say for the current machine sitting in my living room). It’s a little on the expensive side for £1,791.38, but [...]

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Virtual PC 7.0.1 for MAC available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Apple, Mac, MSDN, Virtualization on November 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

I received a blog posting today about Virtual PC 7.0.1 for Macintosh being available on MSDN subscriber downloads. So, those Mac users will finally be able to do something useful with their hardware :)

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Intelsat-7 Satellite Lost

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Misc on November 29, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Intelsat, Ltd. said that its Intelsat Americas-7 satellite experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly that caused the permanent loss of the spacecraft on 28 November 2004 at approximately 2:30 am EST. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3728 Oops.

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Windows Media Center Edition 2005 is Cool!

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Media Center on November 24, 2004 | 15 Comments »

Anyone out there thinking about setting up a DVR or some sort of digital recording system for their home entertainment, I would strongly suggest taking a look at Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. For less than $300 I managed to turn my 2.8GHz Pentium 4 into a media center PC and can now watch/record [...]

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Confused by Microsoft Code Names?

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft on November 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a list I found of Windows code names: http://www.phm.lu/Documentation/Windows/Codenames.asp

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Microsoft Announces Community Technology Preview of Avalon

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft on November 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Last Friday Microsoft announced the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Avalon – an alpha version of the Windows presentation subsystem. Avalon features XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), which is Microsoft’s answer for building presentation logic into application user interfaces, similar to how ASP.NET uses XML to build dynamic web forms. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730336,00.asp

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Microsoft goes after Netware

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Microsoft on November 16, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

“Microsoft is targeting Novell Netware customers with a bundle of reasons to dump the software and switch to Microsoft Windows Server products.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/16/microsoft_netware_basher/ This ought to be interesting, MS paid out half a billion to Novell for loss of business to NDS (http://robgarrett.com/Blogs/software/archive/2004/11/08/227.aspx). It looks like MS is trying to recoup that expense by migrating [...]

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