With the relase of Codemasters’ first ever official Formula One title now being less than a month away, the last gaps of information regarding F1 2010 are quickly being filled. Part of that is the official controller compatibility list that includes all controllers that will be officially supported by the title on the PC, Xbox [...]
Source : VirtualR - Sim Racing News
Recently, Google made available the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.” This add-on enables consumers to “indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.” We agree that making it easy for consumers to protect their privacy is good, and Internet Explorer offers a variety of features to help keep you in control of your information when visiting websites. In this post, we describe how to use some of these built in features to accomplish the same outcome without installing a Browser Helper Object and the Google Update Service.
Source : IEBlog
Source : F1 2010 Offical site
Thanks to a tip by Chrilo, who has found out the download address for the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 “Beta Refresh” supposedly due to be released in a few hours (10AM PST according to Neowin.net). To get it, simply click on the link below:
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh (English Full Installer)
The new installer weighs in at about 151MB for the full installer and carries the build number 15.4.3001.0809. For the web installer, click here to download.
Update: We also have the installer links for other languages:
Source : Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh available for download NOW! (Updated)
There is an update for “Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook” that is compatible with Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 (32-bit).
It was publish last July so I misted it because I was on vacation.
Download : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
The SQL Server team just announced the release of their latest PHP driver for SQL Server. Details about the release can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlphp/archive/2010/08/04/microsoft-drivers-for-php-for-sql-server-2-0-released.aspx.
A major highlight of this release has been the introduction of PDO drivers for SQL Server. This means the PHP application developer now need not care about database but rather focus on the application code.
Source : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
Sometimes you want to check if the network is up in your application, there is a built-in function for that : NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable()
the problem with GetIsNetworkAvailable is that it incorrectly always report TRUE if a loopback adapter is present. It also report TRUE if a “VirtualBox Host-Only Network” adapter is present.
So I have written the following function in Visual Basic (vb) to replace GetIsNetworkAvailable :
Function IsNetworkAvailable() As Boolean
IsNetworkAvailable = False
Dim AllAdapters As NetworkInterface() = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
Dim Adapter As NetworkInterface
For Each Adapter In AllAdapters
If Adapter.OperationalStatus = OperationalStatus.Up And
Adapter.NetworkInterfaceType <> NetworkInterfaceType.Loopback And _
Adapter.NetworkInterfaceType <> NetworkInterfaceType.Tunnel And _
Not Adapter.Name.Contains("LoopBack") And _
Not Adapter.Name.Contains("VirtualBox Host-Only Network") Then
IsNetworkAvailable = True
End If
Next
End FunctionSee Autoblog
IIS team has recently released a Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta . The goal of the Web Farm Framework is to enable easy provisioning, deployment and managing of web farms. This blog post provides an example of what Web Farm Framework can do and how it can simplify the Web Farm management tasks. To demonstrate the capabilities of the tool, we will create a simple web farm that looks as on the following diagram: The load balancer will be using the Application Request Routing for IIS 7 and will also act...(read more)
Source : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, Aug. 2.
Source : www.computerworld.com
On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
More : www.sysadminday.com
judging the overall package based on the test cars, we'd have to say that the 2011 Jetta will be VW's best car.
Source : www.usatoday.com
I just find out that could get a copy of Microsoft’s Official logos for almost all Microsoft products at the Microsoft Press site.
An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. Much of its verbage and some of its code is based on the (inactive) vboxweb project.
phpVirtualBox was created for people (like me) who prefer not to have to log in to their headless VirtualBox host to administer their virtual machines.
Source : code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger Connect your Windows Live ID to the Outlook Social Connector and stay up to the minute with the people in your network by accessing everything from e-mail threads to status updates in one single, centralized view.
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook
Connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and stay up to the minute with the people in your network by accessing everything from e-mail threads to status updates in one single, centralized view.Download:
Source : bink.nu
It’s been a while since we wrote the popular Tutorial on installing Snow Leopard on Virtualbox. Certail users had trouble with the guide due to lack of proper hardware support — Intel VT support. So here comes a tutorial with the help of tek411 which works without much hackery
Source : www.taranfx.com
Sandro Villinger wrote an excellent article on speeding up boot-times, most of these articles do not go further than msconfig.exe, this article does.
Like this article talks about “MainPathBootTime”
Read the full article: What’s Taking So Long How to Fight Slow Startup Times in Windows 7 « IT Expert Voice
Source : Bink.nu
Office Web Apps are now online :
You can try it for yourself at office.live.com
This is a new tool available for free from Microsoft Download.
This is a ‘must have’.
RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible.
From a click in a tree I can launch a Remote Desktop on any of our servers.
There is even a thumbnail view of my connections.
You can set all the Remote Desktop Client parameters for each server.
The settings in each tab can be inherited from the parent group. This mains that you can change the settings of all, or a group, of your connections in one place.
You can log off (or disconnect) all your connections in one click.
All the settings/groups/servers you define are store in a RDG file. You can copy this file to another computer or use it to import a list of servers.
Many thanks to Julian Burger who made this nice little tool.
Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
I’m writing HTML pages in french with Microsoft Expression Web 3.0 (xWeb) and I can’t type certain characters like è, ê, or î. For example to produce an è you have to first hit the dead-key ` and than hit the e letter. This works everywhere except in xWeb.
A search in the Expression Web Forum showed me that I’m not the only one :
I was really disappointed to read :
The good news is that we have fixed the bug. The bad news is that the fix is not in the service pack and will not be available until the next release.
I can’t say that I think this is really professional. Come on guys you could have done better than that. I guess we just have to hope and wait for version 4.0
In the mean time I’ve used the ‘Code snippets’ to help paste the lost characters.
Close Microsoft Expression Web
Open the the file C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Expression\Web 3\Legacy\Expression\Web 3\Snippets\SnippetsCustom.xml
Copy the following XML, paste it in the SnippetsCustom.xml file and save it.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- Fichier de configuration des extraits de code --> <snippets><snippet keyword="é"> <description>é</description> <text>é</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="à"> <description>à</description> <text>&agrave;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="â"> <description>â</description> <text>&acirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Â"> <description>Â</description> <text>&Acirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="À"> <description>À</description> <text>&Agrave;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="ç"> <description>ç</description> <text>&ccedil;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Ç"> <description>Ç</description> <text>&Ccedil;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="é"> <description>é</description> <text>&Eacute;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="É"> <description>É</description> <text>&Eacute;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="ê"> <description>ê</description> <text>&ecirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Ê"> <description>Ê</description> <text>&Ecirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Ê"> <description>Ê</description> <text>&Ecirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="è"> <description>è</description> <text>&egrave;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="È"> <description>È</description> <text>&Egrave;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="ë"> <description>ë</description> <text>&euml;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Ë"> <description>Ë</description> <text>&Euml;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="î"> <description>î</description> <text>&icirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Î"> <description>Î</description> <text>&Icirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="ô"> <description>ô</description> <text>&ocirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Ô"> <description>Ô</description> <text>&Ocirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="û"> <description>û</description> <text>&ucirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Û"> <description>Û</description> <text>&Ucirc;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="ù"> <description>ù</description> <text>&ugrave;</text> </snippet> <snippet keyword="Ù"> <description>Ù</description> <text>&Ugrave;</text> </snippet> </snippets>
Open Expression Web
In the code view hit CTRL + ENTER and choose one of your new snippets.
Don't waste your time trying to understand what this blog is about or why is there so many unrelated news in it (from Formula 1 to computer programming). It's simply my own personal blog where I can put any information I like.
