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Perceptive Pixel's 'Magic Wall' Finds New Niche
Multitouch has more or less turned into a buzzword these days - sometimes, its implementation makes sense and comes out as pretty useful (see the iPhone and Microsoft's Surface), however, other imp...
Memristors Discussed on Talk of the Nation
Today's NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday radio program discussed the recent Memristor advances for the non-Electrical Engineer: "The possibility of such a circuit element, known as the "memris...
Microsoft To Appeal Record EC Fine
In February 2008, the European Commission fined Microsoft for the record-breaking amount of 899 million Euros, for not complying to the 2004 ruling from Brussels. Today, Microsoft announced it has ...
Skype Withdraws Appeals Case, GPL 'Wins'
In July of 2007, Skype lost a court case over their failure to include a copy of the GPL in their WSKP100 VoIP phone - it ran Linux, GPL software, which means a copy of the GPL license must be incl...
Google Addresses Antitrust Issue on Yahoo Ad Deal
Last week, when Microsoft's attempt at buying Yahoo stranded, Steve Ballmer specifically mentioned Google, and how a possible deal between Google and Yahoo would limit choice and competition in the...

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kbAlertz.com :: Windows XP
Updates from Microsoft's KB System

The game port devices may not be upgraded after you upgrade from Windows 98, ...
(893359) - Fixes an issue in which you cannot use any function to log events in the Security event log after you upgrade a Windows XP-based computer to Windows XP with SP2. Provides a hotfix.
Event Viewer incorrectly displays IPv6 addresses in event descriptions
Scheduled tasks may not run in Microsoft Windows XP
(896532) - This article is Part 7 of the Reinstalling Windows XP Home guide. This part explains how to run Windows Update. To view the other topics of the Reinstalling Windows XP Home guide, see th...
MS06-065: Vulnerability in Windows Object Packager could allow remote execution
Changes to Windows XP Home Edition K and Windows XP Professional K from earli...

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kbAlertz.com :: Windows Server 2003
Updates from Microsoft's KB System

The Windows Language bar closes unexpectedly when you start a Citrix Presenta...
You cannot perform a copy operation to a redirected serial port in Windows Se...
You receive a "Stop 0x000000ab" error message when a Terminal Services client...
A memory leaks occur on a dedicated Windows Server 2003-based printer server
A program that uses structured exception handling may stop responding for sev...

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kbAlertz.com :: Windows NT Server 4.0
Updates from Microsoft's KB System

Read operations or write operations on a floppy disk may be faster when you u...
MS00-095: Windows NT 4.0 SNMP registry entries are readable
(252589) - When you use the Dcomcnfg.exe tool to add a port range to Connection-oriented Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) properties, and then view the registry entry for the n...
Support WebCast: Exploring the nuances of remote file encryption
FIX: Error message on a computer that is running Windows NT Server 4.0 Termin...
MS06-050: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Hyperlink Object Library could...

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Easing network congestion caused by virtual servers
Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support VMs (virtual machines) have to be more powerfu...
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld...
XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots
Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum.
Vista as insecure as Windows 2000
Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when mal...
Water-cooled servers gaining steam
When the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications set out to build a machine with more than 200,000 server cores, the key wasn't simply shelling out cash for newer, f...