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 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 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 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 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 Winpooch - Open source anti-spyware for windows
Description: detection of spywares and trojans. It becomes an anti virus if associated with ClamWin
Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus.
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6.12.2005 Windows Vista Secret #1: Open Command Prompt Here
I don't know about your workflow as a developer, but I often find myself switching back and forward between an Explorer window and the command shell.
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19.9.2006 Microsoft to Increasingly Open up on Office 14 and Windows 7
There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency.
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11.7.2008 Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
Will Windows 7 blunt some of Apples momentum? At least one analyst thinks its possible.
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3.6.2009 Open Beta Invitation for Windows Live Mail Desktop
Weve finally done it! Our little project to bring you the next generation consumer mail application is going massively public. As of today (actually we slipped it out quietly last week or so) we are instituting a hassle-free sign up for the Mail Desktop beta.
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27.7.2006 Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows
An Open Letter to Microsoft:
Windows XP did a great thing. It united two operating systems - the Windows 9x codebase and the Windows NT codebase (including Windows 2000).
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12.6.2009 Windows 7 vs. Linux, Microsoft Trashes Open Source OS
The advent of the next iteration of the Windows client represents yet another opportunity for operating system measuring contest, and the Redmond-based company is not the one to back down from a comparison that would push its product to the foreground.
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8.9.2009 How to Open Bitlocker Protected Drives on Windows Vista & XP
Microsoft Windows 7 has one amazing feature to protect your important documents and content called as BitLocker.
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21.10.2009 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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7.8.2006Lotus 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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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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04.12.2007Microsoft 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...
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31.07.2007Half 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
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
Windows XP SP3 Pushed to 2008
Microsoft has further delayed
the release of Service Pack 3
for Windows XP, moving
expected availability from the
second half of 2007 to the
first half of 2008. The change
came silently in an update to
the company's service pack
roadmap...
betanews.com - 20.10.2006
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.
winbeta.org - 08.01.2008
Windows Vista to Launch in
November
There have been rumors galore
about exactly when Microsoft
plans to ship Windows Vista.
We've heard everything from
August to October.
Microsoft
spokespeople have favored a
"latter half of 2006"
due-date answer, when asked.
But from the
"Official Microsoft
Connections" event blog we
now have an official month:
It's November, folks.
Just in case the
post disappears, here's what
it says: "This is the year?
the year that Microsoft
releases the newest version of
Windows. Yes, Vista will be
released in November of this
year."
The
release-to-manufacturing date
will be earlier, obviously.
We'd say early fall, if we
were wagering.
jcxp.net - 14.03.2006
Microsoft eyes a meaner, 'greener' P2P for Windows 7
Windows Vista already includes a P2P-enabling technology known as Teredo. But for the forthcoming Windows 7, Microsoft is contemplating adding such
features as metered connections, distributed hash tables, and something called 'green P2P.'..
betanews.com - 17.03.2008
Microsoft: XP SP3 won't
arrive until '07
Aiming to keep its focus on
Windows Vista, Microsoft is
now targeting 2007 for its
next Windows XP service pack
update.
In a
posting to its life cycle Web
site, Microsoft set a
preliminary date of the second
half of next year for the
release of Windows XP Service
Pack 3 for both home and
professional editions. That
puts its debut well past the
arrival of Vista, which is
slated for the second half of
this year and later than both
outsiders and some insiders
had originally
predicted.
"We
will be releasing another
service pack for XP over the
course of the product life
cycle, and we are tentatively
targeting the second half of
2007 for release," a
Microsoft representative said
in an e-mail to CNET News.com.
"However, right now our
priority is Windows
Vista--we'll have more
information to share about the
next service pack for XP after
Windows Vista ships." ..
winbeta.org - 18.01.2006
Report: Half of PCs Not
Vista-Ready
While nearly every current PC
will be able to run Windows
Vista, only half can take full
advantage of all of its
features, a recent study by
research firm Gartner
suggests. In turn, the firm is
urging IT managers to take
caution when ordering new PCs...
betanews.com - 07.04.2006
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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