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Vic Vipers Everywhere!

2009-11-04T02:36:22Z

The good folks in the LEGO Starfighters group on Flickr have started a new Novvember. That means that many people are building Vic Vipers, inspired by the game Gradius, all month long.

I’m digging the one below by legodrome, and I’m sure there will be many more nice fighters to come. I feel that the black stripes on the front are rather sharp.

Microsoft to virtualize and stream Office 2010 with App-V

2009-11-02T10:58:56Z

Just last week virtualization.info questioned the Microsoft effort on desktop virtualization (including application virtualization and the so called enterprise desktop virtualization, what we call here platform wrappers).
Our article mentioned the MED-V lethargic development lifecycle and the fact that Microsoft stays under the radar for App-V too because at this time it may be the best thing to do.

What Microsoft is waiting for to massively push App-V and everything else beyond Hyper-V?
For App-V, the answer may be Office 2010 (codename Office 14).

During the summer in fact ZDNet reported that the new version of Office, expected somewhere in 2010, will feature a special edition called Click-To-Run.

Office 2010 CTR will be available on Microsoft servers, and streamed on the customers desktops on demand, as the Microsoft invitation letter to its beta testers describes:

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Q: Can I use any of the Office 2010 applications before the install is complete?
A: Yes, you can use them while they are being streamed to your computer. You might notice some slight delays when using the product if they are not fully installed on your machine.
Does the Office 2010 products get installed on my machine every time I use an application or when I reboot my machine?
No. The Office 2010 products are streamed to your computer and installed once. After they are streamed to your computer the product stays installed on your machine.
Do I need to be connected to the Internet when I use any of the Office 2010 applications?
You only need an internet connection to download the complete product. Once it has been fully downloaded you no longer need an Internet connection.
What happens if I lose my internet connection before the complete Office 2010 product is fully downloaded?
You can still use the Office 2010 applications. But since not all of the entire product features have been streamed to your computer, your applications may have limited capabilities, depending on what has been downloaded so far. When you connection is restored, the product will continue streaming from the point that it left off…

ZDNet can’t confirm that App-V is involved but virtualization.info just received independent confirmations.

Microsoft is not really trying to keep the secret. Here’s a video introducing the CTR edition that Microsoft published just one month ago. It doesn’t mention App-V but application virtualization is clearly mentioned:

Office CTR is in private beta at the moment. Microsoft may decide to unveil it along with the Office 2010 public beta (aka beta 2), hopefully to be unveiled at TechEd Europe 2009, November 6.

If customers will embrace Office CTR it will be a major validation for application virtualization, and Microsoft will be able to leverage the awareness and interest around it by pushing its platform in the enterprise space in a completely different way.

This may also trigger the ISVs reaction: without 3rd parties applications supported on this new platform, customers could use App-V only with Microsoft products, which is a good start but not enough to reach the level of adoption that hardware virtualization has today.

No PowerShell = No Job?

2009-11-03T19:38:39Z

James has an excellent post - http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2009/11/02/you-can-t-be-a-21st-century-admin-without-powershell.aspx – explaining why PowerShell is going to be a must have skill for IT admins going forward.

As far as I am concerned he is preaching to the choir :)

But he has a very valid point. PowerShell is the Microsoft automation tool that will be built into all major products. Eventually we can expect administrative GUIs to be layered over PowerShell cmdlets and expose the commands they are running when we execute a command. This is the pattern established by the Exchange team.

James follows with a list of Microsoft products that already contain PowerShell – BTW SQL Server 2008 uses PowerShell v1 already we don’t need to wait for SQL 2008 R2 for PowerShell support.

What makes the PowerShell story even more compelling is the third party companies that are adopting PowerShell:-

Quest, Special Operations Software, IBM, Symantec, F1, Citrix, VMware

that I can think of immediately.

This makes PowerShell a tool that will be everywhere in a Microsoft environment.

The new features in PowerShell v2 – especially remoting and background jobs – make the case even more compelling for the admin of the future.

Of course the question now is how can I learn PowerShell – plus I don’t have time to automate.

Make the time the rewards are many.

Will the title come true? Probably not but if you want to do more than spend your day clicking on the GUI – learn PowerShell.

Technorati Tags: PowerShell

Autistic Artist Draws 18-Foot New York Panorama from Memory

2009-10-30T01:30:00Z

Believe it or not, autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire managed to draw this amazing 18-foot New York skyline panorama using only graphic pens and the information stored in his photographic memory. Video after the break.

'Stephen sketches his layout in pencil first and then scales it within the border, first adding in landmarks before filling out in more intricate detail,' said Iliana Taliotis, who works with Stephen and his family.

[via Dailymail]

The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-03T08:00:00Z

On November 3 2009, Sysinternals retired NewSID , a utility that changes a computers machine Security Identifier (machine SID). I wrote NewSID in 1997 (its original name was NTSID) because the only tool available at the time for changing machine SIDs...(read more)

Subscribed to RMAJansen

2009-11-06T15:26:57Z

I subscribed to RMAJansen’s channel on YouTube.

CalidCo's Microsoft Application virtualization demo. App-V Med-V

2009-11-06T15:21:45Z

I favorited a YouTube video: Demonstration of application virtualization and seamless execution of Legacy based application on modern Desktop OS

Subscribed to rspruijt

2009-11-06T15:15:06Z

I subscribed to rspruijt’s channel on YouTube.

Scan Your Files Online With Over 20 Anti-Virus Programs

2009-11-04T02:25:15Z

If you have not installed any Antivirus tool on your system and are confronted by a situation where you have to scan a specific file to see if it is infected. In such a case you can try Jotti’s Malware Scan, it is a free online service which scans the files though more than 20 well known virus scanning tools.

Simply visit the site from the link given at the bottom of this post, then browse and select the file that you wish to scan and hit the Submit File button. It will scan your selected file in more than 20 scanning tools like Bit Defender, Clam AV, NOD 32, Mormon, AVG, A-Squared, Dr. Web, Avast etc.

Here is how it displays the scan results with respect to different antivirus applications.

The limitation of this tool is that it only scans files up to 15MB in size.

Jotti’s Malware Scan

Enjoy!

Download Windows 7 & HomeGroup Guide From Microsoft

2009-10-19T05:20:42Z

HomeGroup is a new feature present in Windows 7 that allows you to connect two or more computers running Windows 7 and easily share your music, pictures, video, and document libraries as well as printers with others in your home.

HomeGroup also automatically sets up sharing so that all media shared with the HomeGroup is accessible from Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, and other compatible media devices in the home.

If you have computers running previous versions of Windows, you might want to access the files and printers shared with you HomeGroup on your computer (s) running Windows 7.

Recently Microsoft released a guide named Windows 7 & HomeGroup that explains how your computer running previous versions of Windows can access files on computer running Windows 7.

Download Windows 7 & HomeGroup Guide

Un proof of concept de Google Earth qui achève la vie privée

2009-10-02T13:30:10Z

Info propulsée par Gaétan, fidèle lecteur de Korben.info qui est à la fois passionnante mais aussi très effrayante pour la vie privée des gens. En effet, des chercheurs de Georgia Tech ont réalisé un proof of concept qui associe des caméras de surveillance à Google Earth. L’idée c’est de voir en temps réel ce qui se passe sur la planète (enfin surtout dans les villes pour le moment).

Là où ça devient impressionnant, c’est qu’à partir de plusieurs vidéos d’un même plan mais sous différents angles, ils arrivent à intégrer la scène filmée dans Google Earth. Ils ont intégré l’aspect du ciel, et ensuite, ils passeront à la météo, aux oiseaux et au mouvement des rivières.

Puis pour l’aspect vie privée, rien n’empêchera ensuite de suivre quelqu’un via un signal GPS, associé à Google Earth et les caméras de surveillance. Evidement, tout ceci est déjà possible mais là c’est le côté visuel qui est impressionnant… Vous la sentez un peu mieux là, l’intrusion dans la vie privée ou il vous en faut encore plus ?

Merci Gaétan

[Source et doc technique]

Sony annonce la mort des cables

2009-10-05T08:30:47Z

Délire ce truc !

Sony vient de présenter un premier prototype de téléviseur plat entièrement sans fil ! Sans fil, ça veut bien dire que ça fonctionne sans cable audio et vidéo et même sans cable électrique !

Cette prouesse technologique de « witricity » (Wireless Electricity) est possible grâce à 2 bobines distantes qui résonnent sur une même fréquence, permettant ainsi le transfert d’énergie electromagnétique. (Ne m’en demandez pas plus…)

60 watts peuvent alors faire fonctionner un téléviseur distant de 50 centimètres… Par contre, l’histoire ne dit pas ce qui se passe si on pose bébé sur l’émetteur du bas…

C’est beau… je pleure…

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Les souris du futur par Microsoft

2009-10-07T13:30:27Z

Chez Microsoft, ça bosse dur ! Surtout ces ingénieurs qui nous présentent les souris du futur… C’est à dire des souris qui seront capable de gérer du multi-touch… C’est assez impressionnant et ça nous fera surement revoir nos habitudes d’utilisation de l’ordinateur, et nos reflexes de gamers… J’adore le passage où on voit un mec jouer à un FPS uniquement à la souris…

Affaire à suivre !

[Source et photo]

La montée en puissance du direct download

2009-10-27T08:19:38Z

Encore une preuve de la montée en puissance des sites d'hébergement de fichiers... Savez vous qu'en terme de trafic, Rapidshare + MegaUpload dépassent Facebook avec ses 300 millions d'utilisateurs. En effet, selon une étude de Sandvine, le trafic global de Facebook représente 1,5 % du trafic mondial... Rapidshare et Megaupload représentent chacun 1%... donc 2% si on les cumule.

Répartition de la bande passante par type de services (Global)

Globalement, c'est l'age d'or pour ce genre de services qui d'une manière générale, voit son trafic augmenter de 56 % par rapport à l'année dernière. Du coup, cela réduit la consommation de bande passante pour le p2p, qui passe de 61 % en upload l'année dernière à 31 % cette année (et de 22,3 % en download l'année dernière à 15,6 % cette année).

Cela prouve une fois de plus que ce n'est pas grâce aux moyens de répression que le trafic p2p diminue, mais bien parce que les gens s'adaptent et utilisent de plus en plus des systèmes alternatifs (newsgroup, direct download...etc).

Répartition de la bande passante par type de services uniquement en Europe

Si cette étude vous intéresse, le PDF est dispo ici.

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Quel OS boot le plus rapidement ?

2009-11-02T10:01:14Z

Voici une petite vidéo réalisée par le site TuxRadar qui permet de voir sur une configuration identique quels sont les OS 64 bits qui démarrent les plus vite…

Alors, Vista, Seven, Ubuntu 9.04 ou Ubuntu 9.10 ?

Je suis assez surpris que Vista boot plus rapidement que Seven, mais bon, pourquoi pas…

Merci @Tristan

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Les interfaces tactiles du futur nous permettront d’utiliser nos 10 doigts

2009-11-03T10:30:09Z

A l’heure du tout tactile, vous ne vous êtes jamais demandé pourquoi les iPhones, écrans et autres magic mouse ne permettaient que d’utiliser ses 2 doigts ? Bon, ok, déjà c’est un problème de place sur l’appareil en question, mais aussi probablement un problème de « cerveau utilisateur » qui s’habitue peu à peu à ce genre d’interface homme-machine.

Mais dans 5 ans, on verra peut être apparaitre des petites tablettes type Surface sur lesquelles nous pourront utiliser nos 10 doigts ! Et je ne sais pas pour vous, mais on peut en faire des choses avec ses 10 doigts ! (hein Clara?)

+ d’infos ici

Radik Burner Lite

2009-10-08T06:11:00Z

Radik Burner Lite est un nouveau logiciel de gravure gratuit. Il permet de graver des CD ou DVD, des images ISO, ainsi que des CD audios. La multicessions est acceptée ainsi que tous les formats de DVD courants.

Russe et anglais.

Site de l'éditeur

Télécharger ici

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http://infostuces.blogspot.com

Make Free unlimited calls from PC to Mobile anywhere in the World

2009-10-07T15:40:10Z

Every Internet User’s dream! Infact, there are various services promising free local and international calls but sadly, only handful of them works. Here is something using Yahoo Messenger which can be used to make unlimited PC to mobile calls.

Yes, there are some services working fine but just for US but this one can be used to make free local calls to India and other nations. I read this on Renjus Blog and tried and voila! it worked for me. I couldn’t resist myself to share this trick with my readers. Here we go-

How to make PC to Phone calls for free anywhere in the World?

What I need? 1. Latest Yahoo Messenger version 9.0 which supports Voice protocols. 2. Microphones

How do I start? After installing Yahoo Messenger, Sign and configure Mic and Headsets. Dial +18003733411 and hit Enter.

1. Enter Number

Now, you can see a small window calling to that number with the message : There is no charge to call this number.

2. Calling

You will be connected to Free Call and operator welcomes you. You will be given options to choose from various services from free411 and last one is Free Call. Now Say FREE CALL loudly in you microphone.

There will be short advertisement. Wait till they say -“Please dial the phone number country code first,don’t forget to dial 1 for north America”

Start dialing the desired phone number you want to call. Include Country code (eg. 91 for India) followed by the mobile / landline number.

3. Dial Phone Number to call

Start talking to the person you have called. It will last for 5 minutes (not too less) and you can repeat same procedure to reconnect.

Why Free? FREE411 service toll-free number is based in USA. This company gets paid for the advertisements from sponsors.

Any Limits or Restrictions? Not actually, you can use this service limitless.

My Verdict : Indeed a great service as I always like FREE ones. I faced problems like while dialing number of desired person- Sometimes they say “Servers are Busy,Try again” but that has to be compromised as its a free service.

Busy bee

2009-11-03T07:20:07Z

I’ve been a busy bee and had no time to do a decent job of blogging. So here are the pictures I have in my bloglist. One is old, two are new.

NewsGator gives full control of FeedDemon back to developer

2009-11-02T00:00:00Z

Filed under: Developer, Blogging, Google, Commercial, Freeware, Analysis, iPhone

The story of how NewsGator attempted to corner the market on consumer RSS has taken another strange turn. In an interview with Steven Hodson published on Hodson's Shooting at Bubbles site, Bradbury admits that he is no longer employed by NewsGator, but has retained the full rights to his popular FeedDemon RSS reader. NewsGator continues to offer FeedDemon, and the application is still NewsGator-branded, but the clear implication here is that NewsGator no longer owns the rights to the most popular native Windows RSS feed reader.

It's no secret that NewsGator almost single-minded focus on capturing the lucrative enterprise market allowed its efforts in the consumer space to falter, ultimately leading to NewsGator shutting down their once-popular NewsGator Online feed reader, having conceded the online feed reader battle to Google's upstart Google Reader, which has iterated faster, and performing better than NewsGator's online reader for a few years.

It's unfortunate that NewsGator has given up on this market. While it's certainly true that Google has a powerful and successful product on its hands, there is certainly room in the RSS space for more than one dedicated company. What this means for FeedDemon's Mac equivalent, NetNewsWire remains to be seen, but since NewsGator's current push for more enterprise business relies on the talents of Brent Simmons, NetNewsWire will likely remain a NewsGator property for the foreseeable future.

Whether that is good news or not is anyone's guess.

UPDATE: The previous headline of this post turned out to be incorrect, as Nick Bradbury points out in the comments. The relationship between FeedDemon, NewsGator and Bradbury is a bit confusing, but what he said in the interview was this: "I'm no longer employed by NewsGator. FeedDemon remains a NewsGator-branded product, but I'm 100% in charge of it now, and I'm once again an indie developer. FeedDemon is my sole focus - and my sole source of income." So, NewsGator owns FeedDemon, Bradbury works on FeedDemon, but Bradbury does not work FOR NewsGator any longer.

Bradbury also pointed us to a post by NewsGator's Greg Reinacker, explaining more about where things stand.

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Liste de partage de Diagg dans Google Reader

Vic Vipers Everywhere!

Microsoft to virtualize and stream Office 2010 with App-V

No PowerShell = No Job?

Autistic Artist Draws 18-Foot New York Panorama from Memory

The Machine SID Duplication Myth

Subscribed to RMAJansen

CalidCo's Microsoft Application virtualization demo. App-V Med-V

Subscribed to rspruijt

Scan Your Files Online With Over 20 Anti-Virus Programs

Download Windows 7 & HomeGroup Guide From Microsoft

Un proof of concept de Google Earth qui achève la vie privée

Sony annonce la mort des cables

Les souris du futur par Microsoft

La montée en puissance du direct download

Quel OS boot le plus rapidement ?

Les interfaces tactiles du futur nous permettront d’utiliser nos 10 doigts

Radik Burner Lite

Make Free unlimited calls from PC to Mobile anywhere in the World

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