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a few shops have started selling the new intel E8XXX series (Penryn) with prices almost identical to the E6XXX series so get ready to run to get one before they run out :O More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-) Introduction: With Visual Studio 2008 you can debug right into the .NET Framework libraries source code. Watch this video to learn how. You can read more about this by following the links from my blog post here. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming Silverlight wmv file). If you'd prefer to download a non-Silverlight wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/373468.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi Guys, Looking for a Napster Alternative, any suggestions? I'm looking for a package where I can listen to unlimited songs but also copy the songs to my PDA (HTC TyTN II). Napster dont support my model. Cheers More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello, Just thought i'd share my experence with dedicated servers with you at my expense. Firstly on my travels it was all about money. The cheaper the better for a business or is it? Well I came across the cheapest Windows Virtual Server on the internet vpsland.com thought wow this sounds good. Signed up $25 dollars later disappointed. Why? Support really ent 24/7 poor english in support emails. Server dies randomly? so much for 100% reliabilty. Scrap that a server needs to be on all the time and work properly. Further downside were...could not install latest windows updates because get what? Key was not valid and they replied to my support email with "it will break your server". Furthermore, VPN could not be setup and you could not mount ISO images. GoDaddy Dedicated - WOW! GoDaddy that looks cheap $123 dollars for a dedicated server. Read the sales pitch sounded good, "Complete Control", "Do Anything" wow jolly good need to get this £61 ($123)*and 24hrs later again no good. All ports wide open SQL Server completley facing the internet which I dont like as far as im concerned SQL Server should be accessed by VPN only when used remotley down the internet. But the big one...you cant install e-mail services to the server. Why not? Oh thats because port 25 blocked (all others opened just about). To use email you must puchase there email service which uses there own mail server. They charge you for the emails you send out and you can bring them to your server. So not happy there. Emailed asking them to cancel my account and give me a refund but no reply. The last support email i sent i got an email 19 hours later?! So GoDaddy I would not recommend. My final quest...Keep it UK!!! I decided rather then take advantage of the pound been so strong against the dollar i'll look further home and get a more expensive UK services now my choices where Fasthosts Rackspace 123-Reg 1&1 After researching these servers I found 1&1 to be the best deal but was tempted just to use fasthosts. Rackspace support is top class but they quoted $350 a month for less of a server then 1&1 so that was out of budget. Just signed up to 1&1 for a 24 month contract so thats been setup now so i'm hoping this is going to be the one for me paying a little more but seems to be worth it. So anybody considering a VPS or dedicated server this may help you. Also i noticed lycos doing VPS's for £7 a month running linux which i thought was good value. Anyway rant over, Rob More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user? Silicon.com, UK - Jan 15, 2008 Keen to find out more from this happy Windows Vista user, I questioned him more closely about his new toy. Did it run faster than his old laptop, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Via Bink.nu Apperently and early build was shipped to key partners. Is there any truth in this? (certainly wasn't on shipping seven :p) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Though not as glamorous as*Ramsey's Campaign For Real Gravy - I thought Id take a shot at a polite request for more vista themes / media player skins. It has been - what seems like - a very long time. I had hoped SP1 for vista might contain some themes - but it appears to only offer bug fixes and speed improvements. *many here already know i am pining for a more cheerful blue theme.. or even the black tuner skin (in vista) So - this thread is a "nice" petition - to please*release more themes/skins for vista. *as it is a petition... please only reply/sign if you agree. To disagree - don't post. + jamie More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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It's being used on my IIS box to run web sites, and it's been granted write access to certain folders. But I'm not sure where that's set up at. I looked in Groups / Users and don't see something that says "Network Service" I'm sure it's in the alphabet soups somewhere. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It looks like MIDI ports on soundcards don't work anymore in Vista.* https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=716672&SiteID=17 I just out in an old SBLive! Value in my computer and the sound drivers where found but it doesn't find any drivers for the MIDI port.] Creative says that it's not going to bother updating the drivers for these old cards anyway. I don't care about the sound output of this card (I was going to disable it anyway) I just want the MIDI. Is there no hope in Vista 32bit? Do people use USB MIDI adapters in Vista? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Developers for Developers (Devs4Devs) Series - "SharePoint Development -Making Sense Developers for Developers*is a*group on Facebook*filled with tips, tricks, and stories of battle from your fellow coders.* Some of the best stuff you can pick up in your career doesn't come from a book or a presentation. It comes from your fellow developer and his experiences. A quick hallway conversation, 15 minutes at someone's desk after a "Hey come check this out!".. these are the things that can make a difference!* SharePoint Development - Making Sense of it All*is the first in a series of Devs4Devs videos. Topics covered: - SharePoint Overview - The different types of SharePoint Development - Changing SharePoint with SharePoint itself - SharePoint Designer - How to setup a SharePoint Dev Environment - Coding in the VPC - Webpart creation and deployment - Adding NextWeb content to Webparts - a working Silverlight Webpart. - Some Blend coding and debugging. :P Come join your peers and check us out on Facebook today! Thanks, Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/373289.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

While in London not too long ago I met up with some friendly neighborhood Niners to check out London's awesome Science Museum. Two of the usual suspects, blowdart and sabot are on the scene and somebody you've never met before (at least in video context). Enjoy! Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

*cannot be to do with security (sp's, apps)*or dev tools...(popfly,Silverlight, apps) Id have to say Microsoft Max - which they discontinued. Since facebook i dont use messenger, ive checked out windows live stuff - un-installed it minutes later... i cant think of anything else...* in like 3/4 years xpise for xp maybe*- but that wasnt ms *are we overdue for some themes or something!? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apparently, the $200 discount is being extended due to "popular demand."* Sounds a bit fishy, but it's good news for those who haven't jumped in yet. For anyone who's gone in years past, is it worth attending?* Honestly? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Now for a popularity contest! Which niner do you think has the coolest avatar? My vote is for Bas, I have no clue what it is, but I know it finds lightbulbs! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well, I have been reading all these benchmarks, and most of them seem flawed. I know at times, Vista can be slower, but personally I think, that it isn't all the time. There are things I like about Vista and things I don't. I did a personal benchmark with the same hardware, clean install, and used PC Mark 05 and 3D Mark 01. I ran all the test 3 times. All from a cold start, so there was no caching from a restart or what ever there might be. Just thought I would share my results and hopefully I don't get judged, that this is a flawed test. Everything thing is ran with the latest drivers and all set to default, no optimizing was done. So here is the test... Test Setup (Tried to keep the hardware similar to what a typical person would use) Pentium 4 (not dual core) 2.4Ghz Intel p865 chipset 2GB DDR 400 80 Gig Maxtor HDD Nvidia 7800 GS XP/Vista Driver 169.25 XP SP2 w/ current drivers and updates, and the same w/ Vista SP1 RC refresh Startup time: XP - 37 sec Vista - 47 sec 3D Mark 2001: XP - 9805 Vista - 11122 PC Mark 2005: XP-3198 Vista - 2665 HDD XP startup: XP - 7.2MB/s** Vista - 7.18 Physics: XP - 98fps** Vista - 75.53 Transparent Windows: XP - 1040 windows/sec** Vista 474 3D: XP - 189fps** Vista - 180 Web Page Loading: XP - 1.82/s** Vista - .94 File Decryption: XP - 48.27Mb/s** Vista - 48.1 Graphics Memory: XP - 1352.59fps** Vista - 1165.21 HDD - General usage: XP - 5Mb/s** Vista - 4.97 Multi app test: 1 Audio: XP - 785.2kb/s** Vista - 739.8**** 1 Video: XP - 106.14kb/s** Vista - 97.75 2 Text: XP - 46.5** Vista - 37 2 Image: XP - 9Mb/s** Vista - 8 3 File Compression: XP - 1.62/?** Vista - 1.43 3 File Encryption: XP - 13.3Mb/s** Vista - 12.14 3 Virus Scan: XP - 26.47Mb/s** Vista - 20.48 3 Latency: XP - 6.47** Vista -*6.35 These tests took a looong time to do. So hopefully someone finds them useful. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, today I upgraded my PSU to a Tagan 480W (TG-480-U01) but it is extremely loud. At power on, the PSU is fairly quiet but as soon as the OS is loaded (Vista Ultimate). The PSU dramatically increases in noise. The PSU remains at this high noise*level (even when no application is run). Any suggestions??? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This has been annoying me recently: I have Messenger Plus! Live, and this will save msn chat logs for me. It says them in realtime i.e. if my session crashes any messages I received that I didn't see before the crash are logged. Windows Live Messeners "off the shelf" chat logging system does not do this. It logs the entire chat in one go when I close the window. Therefore if I crash, or do not close it properly, my conversation isn't logged. Why not? Isn't this a bit stupid? Time for a visit to connect me thinks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The moral of this story is that “flexibility” is rarely desired in programming! The less a program will accept/the less a program will do/the less options and preferences it has, the more usable it is/the more understandable it is/the more stable it is. *http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/ :O More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Launches Web Site For Mac Office 2008 Users InformationWeek, NY - 18 hours ago Last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency advised schools in the UK not to upgrade their PCs to Windows Vista and Office 2007. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Where WAS Microsoft -- and Vista -- At CES? InformationWeek, NY - 17 hours ago The New York Times Monday published a blog item from reporter Saul Hansell that followed the same line of thought. Hansell summarized Microsoft's ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Release Candidate CNet News.com Blog - 19 minutes ago It's supposed to be a bug-fixin' and feature-enhancin' behemoth that makes your Windows Vista leaner, meaner, taller, and sexier. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Fixes for three of the most common Windows glitches CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago In Vista, press the Windows key, type system restore, and press Enter. Vista recommends a restore point; if you approve, click Next>Finish. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Death of the computer as we know them.... Introducing the new Craputer Geekzone, New Zealand - 2 hours ago I would only need new hardware to run Windows Vista and as I will not be moving down that track just to experience all that Digital Lockdown and frustration ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds