Reduce the Load MSNBot Delivers to Servers
Microsoft is currently rolling out a range of improvements to its Windows Live platform of services and applications.
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21.4.2008 HeavyLoad v2.4 - Test System Stability By Putting Heavy Load
If you’re a computer tech person who assembles new computers everyday or even a consumer who just purchased a new computer, it is important to test the system stability by putting heavy load on system resources.
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4.7.2008Why Windows 'Safe Mode' Isn't So Safe
Windows has, for many years, come with a special mode you can load at boot called Safe Mode. The idea is that non-essential services and software
don't load in safe mode and so it can be useful in diagnosing system problems.
You might assume that it can be useful in fixing
malware infections and you'd be right, but not in all cases. As McAfee's Avert Labs points out in a blog entry,
it's possible for
malware to set itself up to load even in Safe Mode.
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18.03.2009IE7 vs. IE8 in VSTS 2008 SP1 Load test
As we all know, IE8 is coming out soon (Beta 2 is already released) and one of the major performance changes in IE8 is opening up to 6 concurrent
connections per host, comparing to only 2 in IE7.
So, the question is: Does VSTS have IE8? And if it does, does it really open 6
connections per host?
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10.10.2008New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista
A new software tool has been
released by
Linchpin
Labs that allows the
loading of unsigned and legacy
drivers on Windows XP, 2003,
and most importantly Vista.
One of the system
management and control methods
that Microsoft implemented
with Windows Vista is
requiring system drivers to be
digitally signed before they
will load properly within the
system. If a user or
administrator wishes to load
an unsigned or legacy driver,
they will either need to
reboot into a limited
functionality mode or just do
without the functions that the
driver would have provided.
As others have
pointed out, this step will do
nothing to prevent malware
authors from being able to
load their drivers into the
system. Either they will
exploit the lax jurisdiction
and corporate oversight of
various countries to establish
a corporate shell and gain
legitimate digitally signed
driver certification, or they
will just exploit weaknesses
in already-signed drivers.
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30.07.2007Neowin: New Server going online today!
Today our coders will be turning on our new uber cool 64-bit mega server, which has been placed at our new multi-homed DC in the state of Michigan.
The new server will initially only account for 1/3 of Neowin's total load, but by the weekend the whole site will be transferred to it so that our
4 older servers can be switched off and retrieved from the DC in Chicago.
We should have no downtime at all this time around, as the server
is more than capable of handling Neowin for the short period needed to transfer our other servers. DNS will eventually update for everyone as we
transfer the complete load to the new server, until then Neowin can be accessed from both Data Center's.
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04.08.2008Chrome for Mac in progress - First screenshot posted
Mike Pinkerton, co-creator of Camino and a developer on the Mac version of Google Chrome, has posted the first screenshot of Mac Chrome to his blog.
One thing to note though is that the Chrome for Mac is still in progress and what you see in the above screenshot is the first webpage that Mike
managed to load in the browser. The only thing that this browser can do currently is load web pages in the renderer processes and display them in
tabs. The team had managed to create new windows and tabs using the shared code, which allowed renderer processes to spawn/quit.
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14.02.2009Online Video May Be Virus Writers' Next Target
A new study from Georgia Tech indicates that online videos may be the newest way for attackers to load viruses onto the computers of unsuspecting
victims...
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02.10.2007iPhone gets firmware 2.2 update
Apple today released the iPhone's 2.2 firmware upgrade that includes Google Maps upgrades, and the ability to directly load podcasts to the device...
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21.11.2008SQL Server 2008 ETL World Record
Len Wyatt: Today at the launch of SQL Server 2008, you may have seen the references to world-record performance doing a load of data using SSIS.
Microsoft and Unisys announced a record for loading data into a relational database using an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tool. Over 1 TB of
TPC-H data was loaded in under 30 minutes. I wanted to provide some background material in the form of a Q&A on the record, since its hard to give
many details in the context of a launch event. We are also planning a paper that talks about all this, so think of this article as a place-holder
until the full paper comes along. I hope you find this background information useful.
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28.02.2008The Ship Free Weekend - Full Steam Ahead
Just a head's up for anyone
who missed my news post the
other day. Outerlight's MMT
(massively mysterious
thriller) The Ship has begun
the free weekend event on
Valve's Steam service.
You can play the entire
game, all game modes, all maps
until November 5th at 1PM PDT.
If you haven't done so
already, just load up the game
in Steam, you should get a
"Steam Update" window popup
that will give you the chance
to do so. Load it up, and go
kill people. With a flare gun?
Maybe a large umbrella? Or
perhaps watch someone not take
care of themselves to well,
and turn to ashes because they
didn't drink something!
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03.11.2006Conficker virus grounds French fighter planes
A virus making the rounds on Windows machines apparently left three French fighter jets unable to load their computers' flight plans, according to
news reports from Europe...
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10.02.2009Ask Debuts Streamlined Mobile Search
Ask.com joined the ranks of
rival search providers by
offering a mobile version of
its site with Ask Mobile
Search. The company said it
designed the page to minimize
keystrokes while increasing
navigability and decreasing
load times...
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13.10.2006Spammers break BlogSpot CAPTCHA, load up on garbage sites
The weary war against net scum continues, as Google's much-abused BlogSpot service finds its CAPTCHA tech hamstrung and malicious Web sites spread
like stinkweed...
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08.11.2008Google Offers Updates to MySQL
Google this week offered up
changes to the open source
MySQL database, which are
designed to improve the free
software's ability to perform
under heavy load. The
improvements were released
under a GPL license and may be
freely implemented by the
MySQL community, the company
said...
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26.04.2007Microsoft: We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You
In February 2008, Microsoft announced a record-breaking data load using Microsoft® SQL Server® Integration Services (SSIS): 1 TB of data in less
than 30 minutes. That data load, using SQL Server Integration Services, was 30% faster than the previous best time using a commercial ETL tool. This
paper outlines what it took: the software, hardware, and configuration used. We will describe what we did to achieve that result, and offer
suggestions for how to relate these techniques to typical scenarios. Even for customers who don't have needs quite like this benchmark, such efforts
can teach a lot about getting optimal performance.
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04.03.2009Microsoft narrows scope of Home Server bug
Microsoft Corp. product managers Friday claimed that a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server crops up only when the system is under an "extreme
load," but also defended their decision to sound a general alarm before they had completed their investigation.
The news that
Windows Home Server (WHS) could corrupt files raised a storm of criticism from customers and observers alike.
"The problem
isn't one hundred percent reproducible, and depends on quite a few different factors," explained Todd Headrick, the product planning manager on the
Windows Home Server (WHS) team. "Home Server has to be under an extreme load while doing a large file copy," he said, adding that the flaw comes
into play only in instances when the file server's cache is full and the user is editing a file previously saved to a shared folder.
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30.12.2007Google Web Accelerator Returns
Google's controversial Web
Accelerator application that
is designed to lessen the time
it takes to load Web pages has
returned after a four-month
hiatus. But the second
revision of the application,
which is still in beta, does
not address concerns with the
first release, webmasters say...
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27.10.2005Yahoo Ships Customized IE7
Beta 2
Yahoo! on Friday released its
own customized version of
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2,
which sets Yahoo as the
default search provider and
makes the browser load up the
portal's services upon
launch. Yahoo's homepage
loads in the first tab with
Yahoo! Mail in the second...
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10.06.2006InkSeine Update is Live
Matt Faulkner: The
updated
version of InkSeine that I posted about last week is now live. The main reason for the update was because of a
localization issue:
The worst symptom of this bug is that some users who use non-American ways to write decimal numbers or dates are unable to
load InkSeine notes that they have saved. The fix does NOT make it possible to load any files that this bug caused to be saved in the "bad" format,
but any new ones that you create going forward will not have this problem. The other symptoms of this bug are that Copy/Paste, Undo/Redo, and a few
other features will not work. Please accept our sincerest apologies if you have been stricken by this bug.
Even if
the localization issue doesn't effect you, there are still a few fixes included as well...
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26.02.2008Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Pre-load on Steam Updated
Just a quick note
guys.
The Steam
News page was updated
with the news that the
pre-load for Dark Messiah of
Might and Magic has been
updated in preparatin for
release to you the general
public on Tuesday, October
24th this week
coming.
No other information is
available on what was updated,
though one has to assume maybe
bug fixed or the changes to
the multiplayer were added in?
Who knows for sure though. I
for one can't wait until
Tuesday
though!
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Lenovo PCs to Bundle Windows Live
Despite two high-profile
departures and continued
confusion over branding,
Microsoft delivered some
positive Windows Live news
Wednesday, announcing a deal
with Lenovo to pre-load
Windows Live services with the
manufacturer's ThinkPad
notebooks and desktop PCs...
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