FREE: Windows Server System Magazine subscriptions. This is a particularly neat magazine because it focuses exclusively on Windows Server stuff.
Posted by: kurtsh | January 24, 2005
FREE: Windows Server System Magazine subscriptions
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 24, 2005
FREE: Redmond Magazine (formerly MCP Magazine)
Free subscription to Redmond Magazine. This magazine is actually quite good… it used to be MCP Magazine but they decided to refocus the articles on "all things Redmond" i.e. Microsoft.
http://subscribe.101com.com/red/magazine/NewFreeUS/default.asp
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 24, 2005
HUMOR: Presenting the Ig Nobel Prizes
Most of you folks have heard of the Darwin Awards by now, however, if you haven’t seen the Ig Nobel Awards, you’re missing out on a treasure. http://www.improb.com/ig/what-are.html
"Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people LAUGH, then makes them THINK."
Here’s a list of last year’s winners if you missed them:
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 23, 2005
Microsoft Research SRC Toolbar
Microsoft Research SRC Toolbar 1.11
Microsoft Research SRC Toolbar is a tool for searching web with the Search Result Clustering (SRC) technique, which is developed at Web Search and Mining Group in Microsoft Research, Asia. It on-the-fly clusters a certain search engine’s search results into different groups, and provide meaningful and readable names for these groups. SRC changes the traditional representation of search results into a non-linear way, so as to facilitate user’s browsing.
Traditional clustering techniques don’t work for this problem because the documents are short, the cluster names should be readable and the algorithm should be efficient for on-the-fly calculation. This method takes the whole problem in another way and overcome the difficulties in traditional clustering method. Basically, it tries to first identify salient topics by identifying distinct and independent keyword, and then classify the search results into these topics.
Based on http://wsm.directtaps.net/.
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 23, 2005
Outlook Live Releases
We have a new subscription service called Outlook Live (http://outlooklive.msn.com/) that allows people to keep Outlook & Hotmail in-sync. Calendar, Contacts, Mail, everything.
Here’s a news article about it.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/MOOL_Takes_Subscription_Outlook_Live/1106236888
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 16, 2005
New tool for precompacting virtual hard disks
For Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005 users, there’s a new tool posted that allows people to compact their Virtual Hard Drives so that they don’t take up as much space. (Since VHDs tend to grow over time, we can nix the "empty space" in them)
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 15, 2005
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) Home
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Posted by: kurtsh | January 15, 2005
Talking about BugMeNot.com
I found this interesting site: It posts registered accounts to a database that allows you to bypass the registration for web sites that mandate that you fill out their "reg form" before you have access to their information – newspaper sites do this very often.
This is immensely inconvenient and something that’s always bothered me. Bugmenot.com seems to have created a giant loop hole for this whole registraton process.
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Posted by: kurtsh | December 3, 2004
MSN Remote Record BETA
MSN are trialling a new service that enables users running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to remotely schedule TV shows to record on their Media Center Edition-based PCs.
MSN Remote Record is likely to be released as a free add-on in the form of a powertoy in early 2005. For now those wanting to get onto the beta can do the following:
Go to http://beta.microsoft.com
Sign in with your Passport ID
Sign in with Guest ID: myshows (all one word, all lower case)
Click on "MSN Remote Record Service Beta"
Click on "survey" on the left side of the MSN Remote Record Service Beta Program page
Click on "MSN Remote Record Beta Nomination Form"
Fill out the form and submit.
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Posted by: kurtsh | December 3, 2004
Application Compatibility Toolkit 4.0 BETA
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) has provided methods and information to resolve the most commonly encountered application compatibility issues. The introduction of Windows XP Service Pack 2 exposes compatibility issues in applications not seen previously. ACT 4.0 is specifically targeted at these newly exposed issues and provides vital assistance to anyone deploying Service Pack 2. Previous versions of the ACT provided guidance and tools for developers and IT professionals. Version 4.0 is intended solely for IT professionals planning to deploy Windows XP SP2, or those supporting clients running SP2.
Sign into http://beta.microsoft.com.
Register with Guest ID: appcompatguest
Fill out the Nomination Survey.
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