Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however its disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 Free Microsoft Architect Connections Event
Please join us for the first annual Microsoft Architect Connections event, ?Enabling the Service Oriented Enterprise,? to be held at The Omni Los Angeles at California Plaza.
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11.5.2006 Vista SP1's File Sharing Subsystem to "Benefit" from Thousands of Inbound Concurrent Connections
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are "aligned" operating systems despite the client and server side separation. In this context, the first service pack for Windows Vista, directly dependent of Windows Server 2008, will feature evolution in various aspects, as generated by the development of Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system.
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13.12.2007 More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
MICROSOFT appears to be in a state of panic, ordering 60 per cent of its new operating system to be re-written amidst a major shake-up of its troubled Windows division. The news follows another delay with reports of a staff revolt over the way that management has handled the development of the operating system.
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24.3.2006 Half of pirated Vista is malware
Alleged "cracked" versions of Vista appearing on peer-to-peer networks often turn out to be Trojan horses. About half of the downloads claiming to be free versions of Microsoft's Vista operating system are actually malicious Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry warned Thursday.
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26.1.2007 Report: Half of PCs Not Vista-Ready
While nearly every current PC will be able to run Windows Vista, only half will be able to take full advantage of all of it's features, a recent study by research firm Gartner suggests. In turn, the firm is urging IT managers to take caution when ordering new PCs.
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7.4.2006 Vista SP1 is due in the second half of 2007, after all
After lots of wavering, Microsoft has finally made the due date for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) official: The update will ship in the latter half of 2007.
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22.1.2007 Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped
Only into its second day, the criminal copyright infringement case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay has already begun to crumble.
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18.2.2009 Windows 7 in the UK sells for half the US price
Looks like the United Kingdom wont be affected by the strange Windows 7 pricing scheme set in the European Union.
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20.8.2009 Half Life 2 DOWNLOAD FULL version + Screenshots
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Half Of Corporate PCs Can't Run Vista, Researcher Says
About half of corporate PCs are not equipped to run all the features of Windows Vista, and companies should plan to gradually deploy the upcoming operating system through new computers, rather than take the more expensive alternative of buying new hardware for older machines, a research firm said Monday.
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10.4.2006 Microsoft To Ship Longhorn Server In Second Half Of 2007
The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007.
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26.4.2006 Longhorn Server Beta 3 due first half of 2007
Windows Server OS is still on track for its delayed release by the end of 2007.
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14.11.2006 Half of American Business PCs Can't Run Vista
About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium.
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7.12.2006 Microsoft claims 'over half' of 360 buyers didn't own Xbox 1
Microsoft's Chris Satchell claims that "over half" of the people who have bought Xbox 360 since its November 2005 launch did not buy an Xbox 1.
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19.1.2007 Virtualization Saves Microsoft Customers Nearly a Half-Million Dollars Per Year
Microsoft Corp. today announced that some business customers around the world have saved on average $470,000 (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization software.
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10.2.2009 Open Source PSP
Is the PSP becoming an open source platform? If so, is this good for its game functionality and Sonys profits Business Week writes: For every new Firmware update, hackers have advised doing just the opposite downgrading to older, low-security software they posted on the Net.
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11.12.2005 Open source hardware, what is it?
Open source hardware is a term we've used here on MAKE & CRAFT for describing some of the projects featured as well as some of our electronics kits and it was the subject of a talk we participated in at then SXSW conference, but what is it?
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24.4.2007 Open Source at Microsoft
Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. We did this by bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsofts position on OSS by providing specific information about Microsoft, the OSS community and the interaction between the two.
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27.7.2007 Microsoft: Open source is too complex
Although open-source software can be customized to meet a company's specific needs, its inherent complexity could dent the profitability of independent software vendors (ISVs), says Microsoft.
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7.8.2006 Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
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29.4.2007 Open Letter to Steve Ballmer
Steve, I've heard you're making a tough decision about Yahoo. I know what you should do. It's time to step back and walk away. Yahoo's not worth the trouble. If you force an acquisition, your legacy will be mud not Mesh.
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2.5.2008 Open Letter from Steve Jobs
The August 2006 appearance, one of Jobs' 'weakest'
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In what is one of the most surprising moves from Apple's CEO this year, Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the Apple Community, admitting health issues had to do with his not attending the Macworld Expo this year.
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6.1.2009 Microsoft as Open-Source Interop Champion?
Microsoft is beating the open-source interoperability drum, claiming that its Linux Lab is working on numerous projects and partnerships to lessen interoperability problems between Windows and open source. But the company is definitely sending mixed messages on this front.
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17.1.2006 Windows Vista RC1 Open to Public
Those eager to try out the newest release of Windows Vista, which has received positive reviews from analysts and testers alike, can rest easy: RC1 is now available to the general public.
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15.9.2006 How the Windows Vista Packaging will open - photo
Take a look at how the Windows Vista packaging will open up to reveal the media inside. Also, it is our first peak at what the Windows Vista discs will actually look like.
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2.11.2006 Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition
An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardization of its Office Open XML document format masks the company's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.
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5.4.2007 Microsoft Steps Up Open Source Battle
Microsoft continued its battle against open source on Tuesday with the release of yet another company-funded study showing that developers believe the next version of GPL shouldn't cover patent deals.
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23.5.2007 Internet Explorer 7 Is an Open Door for Attacks
Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is nothing short of an open door for attacks. Microsoft informed that it is currently investigating a remote code execution vulnerability in various versions of XP and Windows Server 2003 running Internet Explorer 7.
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15.10.2007 Open APIs May Help Microsoft Repair Reputation
Today's news could, if played correctly, repair the long-held notion in the industry that Microsoft is a proprietary bully that buries anyone who jumps in its sandbox.
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22.2.2008Lotus Notes Goes Web 2.0
The next generation of the
Lotus Notes client will
integrate with the new range
of Web 2.0-inspired
technologies released with
IBM's social software, dubbed
Lotus Connections.
Lotus regional executive
for Australian and New Zealand
Jonathan Stern said Notes 8
will be released later this
year and have a "radically
improved user interface"
built in the open source
Eclipse framework.
Lotus Connections has
adopted a lot of communication
technologies consumers now
know as "Web 2.0", like RSS
feeds, blogs, and wikis.
Connections is an
integrated suite that pulls
together Profiles, which is
inspired by IBM's BluePages
user directory; Dogear, a
bookmark-sharing application;
Activities, a sophisticated
to-do list; Communities, for
pulling together groups of
users; and Roller, an open
source blog server developed
within the Apache Software
Foundation...
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21.07.2007Microsoft Connections in Communications Magazine
The third issue of Microsoft Connections in Communications magazine is now available.
Microsoft Connections in Communications is
a global publication designed to inform, educate and capture the minds of readers. The magazine is targeted to business and technology decision makers
in the telecommunications, hosting, and media and entertainment industries.
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04.12.2007Half of computer users are Wi-Fi thieves
More than half of computer users have illegally stolen Wi-Fi connections, according to
The Times - but only 11
alleged offenders have been arrested in the UK, as the police seem to think those deploying Wi-Fi should be more careful about securing their
connections.
The data was collected from a "Have Your Say" survey on the website of security-specialist Sophos: apparently 54
per cent of the 560 people who responded admitted nicking bandwidth from insecure Wi-Fi routers.
This might say more about Sophos
customers than the general population, and extrapolating the results to every computer user in the country is probably a crime against statistics: so
that's exactly what The Times has done.
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15.11.2007Testing IE8's Connection Parallelism
Ryan Breen: A few weeks ago,
I discussed
IE8's improved connection parallelism, specifically the increase from 2 concurrent connections per host to 6. One open question was the total
number of connections allowed my speculation was that the IE team would stick with a max of 6 rather than triple that value as well.
I was wrong. The new max is an astonishing 18 (!) concurrent connections...
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19.03.2008Analysts: Internet connections, cell phones are failing consumers
Internet connections lead the pack at 44 percent among technologies that are not working for home users, says a study released today. In one
intriguing result, cell phones pose more problems for 18-to-29-year-olds than for senior citizens...
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17.11.2008PeopleBrowsr herds the passing throng
Social butterflies who like the Tweetdeck columns-and-groups model for keeping track of one's connections but need FriendFeed's ability to keep an
eye on on other social networks will enjoy PeopleBrowsr, currently in open alpha...
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03.12.2008IE7 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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10.10.2008Tool from EFF tests whether your Internet is being throttled
Just hours before the FCC slapped Comcast on the wrist for its BitTorrent throttling practices, the Electronic Frontier Foundation unveiled an open
source tool for users to test their high-speed Internet connections...
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04.08.2008Researcher: Leopard's Firewall is a Mess
The launch of Apples newest OS, Leopard, has been, to say the least, tinged with negative press, what with reports of bluescreens due to third party
applications and Java incompatibilities. On Friday, Rich Mogull, a security consultant and former Gartner analyst, added more fuel to the fire when he
said "
firewall is a mess " after spending two days digging into the new firewalls capabilities. " Its a step back
from Tigers firewall. I was originally pretty bullish on Leopards security, and I still am on the concepts, but the implementation makes most of its
advances ineffective or unusable. "
The firewall in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard uses a bare-bones interface -- earlier this week, Mogull
called it " so simple as to be nearly useless " -- that offers users three options: allow all incoming connections, block all incoming
connections, and set access for specific services and applications Unfortunately, the implementation seems fraught with problems. " Block all
does seem to block actual connections, " said Mogull, " but any shared ports are detected as open/filtered on a port scan. "
And unless users turn on stealth, some services -- Bonjour, Apples network-device-locating technology, is one -- are seen as open by scans, no matter
what firewall setting is selected. Only by using "Block all" with stealth enabled are shared services actually invisible.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 04.11.2007
New Microsoft Interoperability Principles Ensure Open Connections and Promote Data Portability
Q&A: Bob Muglia, senior vice president, Server and Tools Division, discusses Microsofts new interoperability principles and the steps the company is
taking to increase the openness of its products...
microsoft.com/presspass - 22.02.2008
Microsoft Not So 'Open' After All?
The head of the open-source
group that will decide whether
to certify Microsoft Corp.'s
"shared source" software
licenses as open-source
licenses said that more than
half of Redmond's licenses
appear to automatically fail
the group's rules.
Michael Tiemann,
president of the non-profit
Open Source Initiative, said
that provisions in three out
of five of Microsoft's
shared-source licenses that
restrict source code to
running only on the Windows
operating system would
contravene a fundamental tenet
of open-source licenses as
laid out by the OSI. By those
rules, code must be free for
anyone to view, use, modify as
they see fit.
"I am certain that if
they say Windows-only
machines, that would not fly
because that would restrict
the field of use," said
Tiemann in an interview late
Friday...
winbeta.org - 31.07.2007
Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones
After months of preamble, Yahoo on Monday flipped the on switch for a massive project to increase activity, and advertising on its Internet sites
through social connections and online applications. The company has been working mostly behind the scenes to build what it calls the Yahoo Open
Strategy, but now the strategy's changes will become evident to U.S. users of some of Yahoo's main properties such as Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo,
and Yahoo's music and TV sites. In addition, the company will begin previewing a new Yahoo Toolbar later this week. When asked about the Yahoo
Open Strategy goals, Ash Patel, executive vice president of Yahoo's audience products division, said that the company wanted to establish a social
dimension.
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neowin.net - 16.12.2008
Mouse brain simulated on computer
US researchers James Frye,
Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan and
Dharmendra S. Modha ran a
"cortical simulator" that
was as big and as complex as
half of a mouse brain on the
BlueGene L supercomputer. In
other smaller simulations the
researchers say they have seen
characteristics of thought
patterns observed in real
mouse brains. In these other
tests the team saw the groups
of neurons form spontaneously
into groups. They also saw
nerves in the simulated
connections firing in a ways
similar to the staggered,
co-ordinated patterns seen in
nature.
The three
researchers laid out how they
went about it in a very short
research note entitled
"Towards Real-Time,
Mouse-Scale Cortical
Simulations". Half a real
mouse brain is thought to have
about eight million neurons -
each one of which can have up
to 8,000 connections, with
other nerve fibres. The team,
from the IBM Almaden Research
Lab and the University of
Nevada, ran the simulation
thanks to the supercomputer's
4096 processors, each one of
which used 256MB of memory.
Using this machine the
researchers created half a
virtual mouse brain that had
8,000 neurons that had up to
6,300 connections. The vast
complexity of the simulation
meant that it was only run for
ten seconds, at a speed ten
times slower than real
life.
For future
tests the team aims to speed
up the simulation, make it
more neurobiologically
faithful, add structures seen
in real mouse brains and make
the responses of neurons and
syna-pses more detailed.
neowin.net - 29.04.2007
Half of 2008 a good year for smartphones, the other half not
With the advent of Apple's iPhone 3G, HTC's Android-based G1, and a lot of other smartphones, 2008 might look on the surface like a good year for
this particular genre of mobile device. But that's only a half-truth, says a report released today by the ABI Research analyst group...
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Secure VPN tunneling protocol in development
Microsoft is working on a
remote access tunneling
protocol for Vista and
Longhorn Server that lets
client devices securely access
networks via a VPN from
anywhere on the Internet
without concern for typical
port blocking issues.
The Secure Socket
Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
creates a VPN tunnel that
travels over Secure-HTTP,
eliminating issues associated
VPN connections based on the
Point-to-Point Tunneling
Protocol (PPTP) or Layer 2
Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) that
can be blocked by some Web
proxies, firewalls and Network
Address Translation (NAT)
routers that sit between
clients and servers.
The protocol,
however, is only for remote
access and will not supoort
site-to-site VPN
tunnels.
Microsoft hopes SSTP will
help reduced help desk support
calls associated with IPSec
VPNs when those connections
get blocked by firewalls or
routers. In addition, SSTP
won?t foster retraining issues
because it does not change the
end-user VPN controls. The
SSTP based VPN tunnel plugs
directly into current
interfaces for Microsoft VPN
client and server
software.
Microsoft plans to ship SSTP
support in Vista Service Pack
1 and in Longhorn Server. The
ship date for Vista SP1 has
not been set, but Longhorn is
expected to ship in the second
half of this year. SSTP will
be included in Longhorn Server
Beta 3, which is set to ship
in the first half of
2007.
Microsoft officials also say
they are working with partners
-- the company declined to
name -- on adding SSTP to
other client devices besides
Vista.
jcxp.net - 20.01.2007
A look inside Google's new do-it-yourself intranet creator
What began as paid Wiki hosting service JotSpot, was bought by Google in 2006 and re-launched a year and a half later as Google Sites. Finally, this
service is open to the public, not just subscribers...
betanews.com - 24.05.2008
Fujitsu enters the half-terabyte HDD foray
Fujitsu is now the third company to have announced a half-terabyte 2.5" drive by announcing its MHZ2 BT...
betanews.com - 26.02.2008
Fujitsu enters the half-terabyte HDD fray
Fujitsu is now the third company to have announced a half-terabyte 2.5" drive by announcing its MHZ2 BT...
betanews.com - 26.02.2008
DC++ 0.697
DC++ announces the freedom to
share! DC++ is an open source
client forthe Direct Connect
network. Direct Connect allows
you to share filesover the
Internet without restrictions
or limits. The client
iscompletely free of
advertisements and has a nice,
easy to useinterface. Firewall
and router support is
integrated and it is easy
andconvenient to use
functionality like multi-hub
connections,auto-connections
and resuming of downloads.
neowin.net - 05.10.2006
Configuring Windows Server 2008 as a Remote Access SSL VPN Server (Part 1)
Remote Access is one of todays big things. As an increasing number of people need access to information stored on work and home computers, the
ability to access that information from anywhere is critical. Gone are the days when you could say Ill get that information to you when I get to my
computer. You need that information now if you want to be competitive in todays business environment.
In the stone age of
computing, the way to remotely access information on your computer was to use a dial-up connection. RAS dial-up connections worked over regular POTS
(Plain Old Telephone Service) lines and had speeds that ranged up to around 56kbps. Speed was a major problem with dial-up RAS connections, but an
even bigger problem was the cost of the connections when a long distance number was required for access.
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