Young see 'tech' as organic part of life
While young people embrace the
Web with real or virtual
friends and their mobile phone
is never far away, relatively
few like technology and those
that do tend to be in Brazil,
India and China, according to
a survey.
Only a
handful think of technology as
a concept, and just 16 percent
use terms like "social
networking," said two
combined surveys covering 8-
to 24-year-olds published on
Tuesday by Microsoft and
Viacom units MTV Networks and
Nickelodeon.
"Young
people don't see "tech" as
a separate entity it's an
organic part of their lives,"
said Andrew Davidson, vice
president of MTV's VBS
International Insight unit...
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25.07.2007Windows Server 2008 KMS Setup Demonstration
This video demonstrates how to implement the Key Management Service (KMS) in your organization. KMS is a local activation service, and is the
recommended method of activating volume license editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in organizations where most computers are
consistently connected to the network. This demo shows how to set up the KMS host on a Windows Server 2008 computer, how to activate KMS clients with
the KMS host, and how to review activation status using the slmgr.vbs command.
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06.02.2008Critical Security Hole in 7 to Remain Unfixed
User Account Control (UAC) is, without a doubt, one of the most disputed features in Windows Vista. When enabled, many users found it to be far too
annoying and intrusive. When disabled, it left the system far too vulnerable. Many people chose to live life on the wild side, and disabled the
feature.
In Windows 7, one of the most welcomed changes is the ability to "tune down" UAC with four different prompt modes. By default,
Windows 7 ships in the third mode, "Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer", meaning when the user makes any changes to the
system settings, their experience will be prompt-free.
So where's the problem? Here's where, lowering, and even turning off UAC, does
not generate a prompt at this default level. Meaning with a quick script, UAC could be turned off right under your nose without you ever knowing.
Not a problem, Microsoft will fix this, right? You would think so. Here's the funny part, Microsoft has gone ahead and marked the issue,
submitted on
Microsoft Connect, as "Won't Fix - By Design". That's right. The most
important feature for keeping your system secure, and you in control, can be disabled without you ever knowing, and it's "By Design".
Don't believe us? Here's your proof. Bloggers Long Zheng, of
istartedsomething
and Rafael Rivera, of
Within Windows have come up with a proof-of-cencept VBScript
which quickly and easily disables UAC and reboots your system by using a series of keyboard inputs (see below for the link if you want to give it a
shot).
What can you do to stay secure? A quick fix for this issue, would be to set UAC to the highest available level, which will prompt
you if ever the UAC level is being changed. Of course, this means you will also receive prompts when you make any other changes to the system
settings.
What can you do to help? Spread the word, and don't let Microsoft sweep this under the carpet. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter,
Windows Live Spaces, Meebo, your own personal blog, your Messenger Personal Message... or whatever social networking method suits you, post it.
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31.01.2009Run KMS on Server 2008, and which keys to use when activating Server 2008
Michael Greene: The documentation for volume activation 2.0 has been updated today for Server 2008. You can find it here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75674 Running KMS on
Server 2008 is functionally very similar to running it on Vista RTM. You leverage slmgr.vbs to bring the service online and then clients find
the server based on the DNS srv record. BTW, Server 2008 KMS can be run within a virtual environment.
If you want to know
which volume license keys to use when activating new machines running Server 2008, see page 19 in the Planning Guide and the
FAQ. You only need to put one key in your KMS, and it
will handle requests from both Vista and Server 2008. There are separate keys, and unique keys based on which version of server you need to
activate. Before you get excited - this is much easier to understand than it might first seem. Simply decide the "top" version
of Server 2008 you might install and then use that MKS key to activate the service on a 2008 server. All versions in groups below that version
will also activate off that key. The groups are simple...
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