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[/url]AP - Microsoft Corp. and China's No. 2 personal computer maker signed an agreement Wednesday to pre-install Microsoft's Windows operating system in PCs to combat widespread Chinese product piracy. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Nokia Corp. and Vodafone unveiled plans on Wednesday to give users easier and faster access to the Internet and a better choice of communications. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Fan sites dedicated to Prince say they have been served legal notice to remove all images of the singer, his lyrics and "anything linked to Prince's likeness," and have vowed to fight what they said was censorship. Link To Original Article

Macworld.com - This week more than 5,000 Apple MacBook laptop computers will be distributed to high school students in the Kansas City, Kansas Public School System. It?s part of the school system?s one-to-one computing initiative. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Google's move into the market for smartphone operating software on Monday has hyped the idea of a "Gphone," but the new software may take a while to catch on, the head of mobile microprocessor developer ARM said Wednesday. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems' push to open source all of its software helped prompt one vice president, Larry Singer, to leave the company, Singer said at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft will release a public beta version of a bundle of server software products for medium-size businesses, code-named "Centro," in the first half of next year. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Facebook on Tuesday began delivering ads to members based on what they do and who they know, following in the footsteps of social networking rival MySpace and triggering Internet privacy concerns. Link To Original Article

Google announces Android and a new alliance; Congress grills Yahoo execs over actions in China; there's real money to be had in the virtual world. Link To Original Article

Microsoft's Windows Live services are living up to their name by going live, losing the "beta" label and becoming available as a free, Windows suite of six Web-connected applications. The suite includes Windows Live Mail, which integrates with Hotmail and supports POP and IMAP. Among the other complete, desktop ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - A top official from Microsoft's developer division showcased an array of new development technologies on Tuesday, including a demo of the game World of Warcraft running within the company's Visual Studio integrated development environment. Link To Original Article

When attempting to install "Copy Center", for the Epson Perfection2480 Limited Edition Photo Scanner, The Setup.exe file attempts to start, then stops. This app integrates with the Epson Smart Panel, and worked OK in the past. The software was written by Newsoft Inc. Tech rep there says an XP security update is probably blocking the installation. All the other functions of the scanner work as they should, just can't copy direct to printer. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? How can it be resolved. Is there a way to install an app without using the InstallShield Windows Installer? Can Windows updates be reversed? System Restore doesn't help. A…

When attempting to install "Copy Center", for the Epson Perfection2480 Limited Edition Photo Scanner, The Setup.exe file attempts to start, then stops. This app integrates with the Epson Smart Panel, and worked OK in the past. The software was written by Newsoft Inc. Tech rep there says an XP security update is probably blocking the installation. All the other functions of the scanner work as they should, just can't copy direct to printer. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? How can it be resolved. Is there a way to install an app without using the InstallShield Windows Installer? Can Windows updates be reversed? System Restore doesn't help…

> Ok, I have a very long and dull story about how this all went down, >so I'll spare the details. I have an Acer 5100 Laptop that originally >came with a AMD MK-36 CPU (I think that's the exact model...single >Core....2.0 GHZ) > > Someone I knew trashed their laptop, also an Acer 5100 with a Dual >Core AMD CPU that fit the same socket. Here are the problems I have. > >I am running Windows XP Pro, have 2 GB of RAM, and a SATA hard drive. I once bought an AMD Athlon XP from eBay that was bootleg. If CPUID is showing not recognized, you might have a bad CPU. - Thee Chicago Wolf

> Ok, I have a very long and dull story about how this all went down, >so I'll spare the details. I have an Acer 5100 Laptop that originally >came with a AMD MK-36 CPU (I think that's the exact model...single >Core....2.0 GHZ) > > Someone I knew trashed their laptop, also an Acer 5100 with a Dual >Core AMD CPU that fit the same socket. Here are the problems I have. > >I am running Windows XP Pro, have 2 GB of RAM, and a SATA hard drive. I once bought an AMD Athlon XP from eBay that was bootleg. If CPUID is showing not recognized, you might have a bad CPU. - Thee Chicago Wolf

Is there a motherboard that uses all 64-bit capable components? Seems that only the CPU can switch mode between 32-bit and 64-bit... :) -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 7.04) Linux 2.6.23.1 ^ ^ 20:40:01 up 5 days 7:11 2 users load average: 0.00 0.02 0.00 http://news://news.3home.net http://news://news.hkpcug.org http://news://news.newsgroup.com.hk

I have some JPEG files that average 5Mb in size. When I import from my camera to Vista and then browse some of the file sizes change right before my own eyes, typically changing the file size from %mb down to 260K......am I going mad? Anyone else have this problem, it does seem to be intermittant! HELP!

http://skydrive.live.com/ I believe alias in spain said he could not see it there when I first announced this in this newsgroup. I know that in many parts of the world even China skydrive is live now... have fun!

After installing a new (print)server with Windows 2003 server (Enterprise Edition R2) with sp2 we observe the next problem. When sp2 is installed a number of printer queues got the status ‘offline’, and the printjobs are no longer processed. When however snmp on the standard tcp-ip port is gedisabled the print queue gets the status online again, and it works fine. The printjobs are printed again. I’ve searched through the knowledge base, but no real solution for this found. I also searched on the Internet but found no useful result for us, they all advice to disable snmp on the tcp-ip port. To disable snmp on tcp-ip ports on our infrastructure is no option…

Hi Yesterday i've installed SQL Server 2005 on a Windows Server 2003 runing Terminal Services with Licence Upgrade. Until Yesterday everything was working OK. This cliente have 3 remote acesses and LPT matricial printers that they need to use. Well after installing SQL Server 2005 every LPT printer seased to work. They are mapper (or redirected) Ok, we can even change settings. But if you press "print test page" the system says "Printer Selected is Invalid" and if try to print on the server the error is "Test page fail to Print". I've already reinstalled printer drivers both on server and remote PC. Thanks in advance -- nuno nunes

Hi Yesterday i've installed SQL Server 2005 on a Windows Server 2003 runing Terminal Services with Licence Upgrade. Until Yesterday everything was working OK. This cliente have 3 remote acesses and LPT matricial printers that they need to use. Well after installing SQL Server 2005 every LPT printer seased to work. They are mapper (or redirected) Ok, we can even change settings. But if you press "print test page" the system says "Printer Selected is Invalid" and if try to print on the server the error is "Test page fail to Print". I've already reinstalled printer drivers both on server and remote PC. Thanks in advance -- nuno nunes

I'm trying to change location of offline files from c: to d: simply because I got more space in d: I've googled this and so far this link (http://forums.microsoft.com/ TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?postid=1583612&siteid=17) has been the most useful. However, there are 2 methods described. One is to delete existing csc and point to a new location. The other one is to do a regedit. (see below) Which is the best and safest way to do it? Thanks. Notes: Method 1: 1. Disable offline files 2. Reboot Vista in safe mode command prompt only 3. Delete the CSC folder in the systemroot (usually C:\windows) 4. Create a symbolic directory link pointing to another lo…

This advice is dangerous! I did this on my system and ended up with two Plug and Play Enumerators in my list of devices. My system was largely put out of action by this, and I had to run System Restore to recover. So be careful! In any case, a more likely explanation is that your 'Windows Audio' service is not running. For more information, see: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1123466906 Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk Bestbentwire@gmail.com;318407 Wrote: > Optrex you are a star - I've been searching all day for a solution to > the "No audio device" problem. > > I was just about to rebuild my system when I saw…

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