Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm.
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2.2.2007 The Ultimate Windows Vista Computer Design
Fest your eyes on the Ultimate Windows Vista computer design concept. The image included on the left, as well as the ones at the bottom of this article are a part of the Carbon Design Group’s portfolio.
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17.9.2007 Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
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10.2.2007 Windows Vista at 1 year: A computer maker's view
I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the Microsoft operating system in different ways.
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30.1.2008 Computer after accident
Usage of second-hand computer
Internet Computer Names
I had a very exciting chat with some beta users today where, for the first time, we talked about a feature I am very excited about that we are calling Internet Computer Names.
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24.8.2006 Super Personal Computer
Tyan Computer has announced its latest TyanPSC T-650 series personal supercomputers powered by Intel’s 50-watt quad-core Xeon processors. Tyan targets the TyanPSC T-650 series towards office environments. The new TyanPSC T-650 is a 5-node cluster with 40 CPU cores per system.
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22.3.2007 Cray Computer Founder Joins Microsoft
Microsoft confirmed on Friday that Burton Smith, formerly the chief scientist for Cray, would be joining the company as a technical fellow. Smith will work to expand Microsoft's efforts in parallel and high-performance computing, and would report to chief technical officier Craig Mundie.
Smith had worked with Cray since its inception as Tera Computer Co. in 1988. He has also published several works on issues regarding parallel computing. "As microprocessor technology continues to evolve over the next decade or so, we're going to see the capabilities of a supercomputer cluster on the desktop which will require a different software architecture," Mundie said. "Burton will be investigating how to develop software to benefit from the opportunities which multi-core multiprocessors will present."
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9.12.2005 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time
Over the years, computers have changed the way we live today! In order to get us there, many hardware and software companies have pushed the envelope to create what we use today.
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22.10.2006 The Windows 7 11-Second Boot and the Computer That Made It Possible
Windows 7’s evolution compared to Windows Vista is undeniable, and the lucky few that so far have had access to the RTM bits of the latest Windows client can confirm this.
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18.9.2009 Computer Maker Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
Computer maker Tangent has filed a federal antitrust suit against Microsoft, accusing the software maker of anticompetitive behavior that forced it to overpay for the Windows operating system.
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23.2.2006 Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer
Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers.
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17.6.2008 Fix Windows 7 Does Not Start After Force Shutdown of Computer
No Microsoft operating system is bug free and it starts getting uncovered as more and more users start using it.
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10.10.2009 Home Computer Restore CD [Dual Boot] BETA now available
The Windows Home Server team would like to invite you to download a BETA version of the "Windows Home Server - Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot)" from Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer.
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6.4.2008 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 Shutdown Genious 2.2.8 - Automatically Shutdown Computer
Automate your PC shutdown, power off, log off, lock work station, hibernate, stand by or screen save etc. It can be started without the user having to login to the machine.
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27.6.2008 Home Computer - Home Network - Home Server
In the 1960s & 70s the idea of a home computer was unheard of outside of science fiction circles. Before the late 1980s home networks were unheard of.
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2.12.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1
Robert Larson: Well by now you have heard the news that Microsoft shipped Hyper-V Beta 1 early!!
Like many of you I have been
testing away and thought I would share the steps for creating a host cluster in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. For those that have built host clusters in
Virtual Server, you will find the process in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V much more streamlined and user friendly. One major improvement is the
integration of Hyper-V as a cluster aware application and native support for making a virtual machine highly available.
So what
are the 10 steps you have to go through to build a host cluster using iSCSI shared storage?
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20.12.2007Microsoft Cluster Server Goes
Gold
Microsoft on Friday released
to manufacturing Windows
Compute Cluster Server 2003,
which is designed to run
high-performance computing
applications in parallel with
other systems. The new product
is Microsoft's first offering
in a space largely dominated
by UNIX and Linux...
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09.06.2006Design and Deployment Guide for Windows HPC Server 2008
This guide provides detailed information and step-by-step procedures for designing and installing a high performance computing cluster using Windows®
HPC Server 2008. You can use this guide to first plan the deployment of your HPC cluster, and when you are ready to deploy you can follow the
procedures to configure the head node, add compute nodes to the cluster, and verify that your cluster deployment has been successful.
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18.09.2008Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC Server 2008 Compute Cluster
Volker Will: Best thing you can do to a Mac Mini? No, wait, certainly not the right way to start this post.
I am going prepare a
Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a 2 or more node HPC cluster and a head node. Once you followed the steps outlined in the
videos you will be able to install a fully functional HPC cluster environment, literally a cluster-in-one-box. This post covers all aspects from
reinstalling the Mac OS with fewer options, using less space on the disk to a Boot Camp installation of Windows Server 2008 and configuring Hyper-V.
The final steps necessary to install the HPC cluster software are outlined in
Giovanni’s document on
windowshpc.net.
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20.03.2008Kyoto University orders AMD-based supercomputer
Kyoto University in Japan has ordered an AMD Opteron-based supercomputer that's not only powerful but achieves considerable energy savings over its
current machine.
The cluster will consist of 416 of Fujitsu's HX600 high-performance computers. Each of those machines is based
on four quad-core Opteron processors so a total of 1,664 processors and 6,656 Opteron cores will be busy inside the machine, running applications such
as scientific calculations, genomic information processing, computer graphics, and large archive searches.
Alongside the main
cluster will sit a symmetric multiprocessing cluster consisting of seven Sparc enterprise Unix servers, each based on Sparc64 processors, and with 1TB
of memory.
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15.02.2008"Virtual" HPC Cluster on a Notebook PC...?
Maybe a stretch, eh? Well maybe not if you just want to experiment with the tools and platform technologies. Today, you can acquire a multi-core
notebook supporting a CPU/RAM combination capable of running multiple virtual machines simultaneously. This allows you to experiment not only with
new Windows Server 2008 RC0 Virtualization (i.e. "Hyper-V"), but also Windows Compute Cluster Server and Visual Studio 2008 release candidate.
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16.11.2007The Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Configuration Program (FCCP) is Live
The
Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster
Configuration Program (FCCP) is designed to deliver tested and validated hardware configurations for your high availability needs. The program is
based on Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering and partner hardware configurations that have been strenuously tested and validated to work. If your
planning on purchasing hardware for a Windows Server 2008 cluster ensure that your hardware vendors have been validated by the Microsoft FCCP.
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07.03.2008Sir Alan Sugar unveils East End supercomputer
Everyone's favourite shouty
TV star, Sir Alan "you're
fired!" Sugar unveiled a
supercomputer at Queen Mary,
University of London this
morning.
Sugar
cajoles wannabe entrepreneurs
on BBC1's The Apprentice and
is founder of computer maker
Amstrad.
But the
hat he wore today was the one
of chairman at Viglen, the
company that developed the
high performance computer
(HPC) cluster in partnership
with Queen Mary, University of
London. The university has so
far coughed up around £650,000
to pay for the new system.
The e-Science HPC
cluster will run on Linux and
be powered by AMD's 284 dual
processor, dual core nodes
which might be seen by some as
a bold move away from
long-term Viglen partners
Microsoft and Intel.
El Reg asked why Viglen had
chosen AMD over Intel, and
Sugar said "it's simply a
commercial thing" and that he
was glad to see "healthy
competition" between the two,
unlike Microsoft's dominance
of the software market.
"Hardware becomes an
irrelevance as far as the
business model is
concerned...hacking it out on
price is long gone, now we
have to compete over who
offers the best service."
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04.05.2007Microsoft Windows Vista:
Confident
Windows Vista introduces a new
level of confidence to the
experience of using your
computer. Beyond the design
aesthetic of Windows Vista,
the fundamentals of the
operating system free you from
worrying about security,
reliability, and managing your
computer. You are in control...
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15.09.2005IBM Opens GPFS File System to
Linux
IBM on Tuesday is expected to
announce a new software
strategy that will allow
supercomputing customers to
leverage the power of the
General Parallel File System
(GPFS) across a mixed-vendor
computer cluster for the first
time. GPFS supports files of
several tens of terabytes...
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14.12.2005First Cell-Based Computer
Announced
Late yesterday, IBM announced
it is finally making available
the first general purpose
computing system to utilize
the Cell processor. Proving
the Cell is not just for game
consoles, IBM is infusing its
high-performance System
Cluster 1350 setup with a
Cell-based BladeCenter QS20
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14.09.2006Samsung and Microsoft work to speed up SSDs
A few weeks ago SanDisk slated Windows Vista for not being optimized for SSD (Solid State Drive) storage hardware.
"As soon as you
get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash
memory solid-state disk”. Said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eli Harari
SandDisk’s solution is to develop a new
controller technology which will overcome these limitations but could take upto a year to reach the market.
Now according to
PCworld Samsung has been in talks with Microsoft to increase the performance of SSDs using Vista
and other MS OSes.
The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache data are different than hard drives, said Michael Wang, flash marketing
manager at Sun.
Standard magnetic hard drives have a 512kb cluster size where as SSDs only have a 4kb cluster size. Samsung hopes to work
with Microsoft to boost SSD performance on Windows by discovering optimal packet sizes for data transfers and the best ways to read and write files,
for example.
SSDs have been hailed as the future storage medium for PC’s and internet connected devices, citing speed, power use and
durability.
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07.08.2008Symantec shines storage management software for Server 2008
Symantec today is giving a good three-month notice that point upgrades for Veritas Storage Foundation and Server Cluster Software are on the way.
Slated for a June release, Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Windows updates OS and hardware compatibility, adds
some new wizards, and improved performance.
Both pieces of software add support for Windows Server 2008 and expand compatibility
with Vista, Exchange 2007 SP1, SharePoint Portal Server 2007, Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The update also makes
nice with Pillar and 3Par storage arrays, as well as newer boxes from IBM and Hitachi Data Systems.
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19.03.2008Microsoft Relaxes Vista License Terms
Responding to a wave of
criticism following news that
the licensing terms in Windows
Vista allowed the operating
system to be moved to another
computer only once, Microsoft
has changed its position and
relaxed the restriction for
retails copies of Vista...
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03.11.2006Microsoft Updates Vista Assessment Tool
Those still considering
whether to make the jump to
Windows Vista will have
additional help with today's
2.0 release of Microsoft's
Vista Hardware Assessment
Tool. The application takes
inventory of a computer system
and makes recommendations if
upgrades are required...
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11.07.2007Microsoft Windows Vista:
Connected
Windows Vista ushers in a
whole new way of connecting
with the people, places, and
devices that are part of your
life. Wherever you are-at
home, at work, or on the
go-connecting to another
computer, device, or person is
a simple experience with
Windows Vista...
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15.09.2005Ou's Low-tech Vista Exploit
Inspired by an online
discussion where the question
was raised, could Microsoft's
Windows Vista's new vocal
command feature inadvertently
respond to a word spoken by an
audio file played remotely,
perhaps through a Web site,
ZDNet blogger George Ou
discovered through his own
tests that a well-recorded
voice command could be played
back through the speakers of a
Vista-endowed computer, and
that the computer would
respond as if commanded by its
own user...
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01.02.2007Overview Series: Windows Vista Performance and Tuning
Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and
responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive impact on the systems usability. This guide looks
at the following areas of performance improvement:
- Making configuration changes that help a computer feel more responsive when you
use it.
- Using hardware to boost the actual physical speed of a computer.
- Making configuration changes that help a computer to start
faster.
- Making the computer more reliable may help increase performance.
- Monitoring performance occasionally so that you can stop
problems before they get too big.
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29.07.200850 Windows XP & Vista Tips & Tricks
Computer Active has compiled a list of 50 tips to improve performance of both XP and Vista.
For most people using a computer means using
Windows and over the years Microsoft’s operating system has become easier to use.
However, there is always room for improvement, so
in this feature we have compiled 50 of the finest tips for Windows XP and Vista. These can help to make Windows even better, easier to use and faster.
Most don’t even require you to install any extra software, so if you want to make your copy of XP or Vista better, it’s possible to get
started immediately.
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09.05.2008Vista Encryption Concerns
British Police
British officials are
concerned about encryption in
Microsoft's forthcoming
Windows Vista release, saying
the technology could prevent
law enforcement from reading
suspects' computer files.
They claim certain new
features within Vista, while
intended to do good, may
actually set back terrorism
investigations...
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