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AP - Several online sites were buzzing this weekend with suspicion that Verizon Wireless was getting going to share its customers' calling records with third parties. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - AOL is eliminating another 2,000 jobs worldwide as it tries to cut costs and make room to grow in online advertising. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Napster Inc, the digital music service, said on Tuesday it plans to attract more customers by moving to a Web-based platform allowing users to play their music from any computer without having to download any additional software. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft's Windows XP OS will be on a version of*Asustek Computer's ultra-low cost laptop, Eee PC, by the end of this year, the companies announced Tuesday. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's largest cellphone maker, said on Tuesday a touch-screen version of its popular S60 smartphone software would be ready in 2008. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Sun offered informational updates Monday on several ongoing efforts in the open-source arena, including product plans for the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS, Java, and the GlassFish application server. Link To Original Article

A few days after Google announced the release of their GOOG-411 service, Microsoft has announced their very own free 411 service, called Live Search 411. Live Search 411 has very similar functionality to GOOG-411. Live Search 411 is a voice navigated free information service that you can get to by ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - YouTube on Monday put in place software to block the posting of pirated videos and appease content owners that accuse the popular website of being a willing accomplice to copyright abuses. Link To Original Article

Plus: Dying DRM means more freedom for music fans. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take on a case that accuses Microsoft and Best Buy of deliberately tricking customers into signing up for MSN Internet service and improperly charging them when a trial period expires. Microsoft and Best Buy had asked the high court to review ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft is expanding its work with enterprise telephony vendors to make its*Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007*work more closely with office phone systems. Link To Original Article

Update includes fixes for 27 vulnerabilities in Oracle Database, five of which may be exploited remotely without authentication. Link To Original Article

(Credit: Netcraft) Technology writer Glyn Moody notes that open-source software developer Apache's lead in Web servers over Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) is at its skinniest ever: 10 percent. Apache continues to gain (1 million sites last month). But Microsoft's IIS is also growing--and at a faster ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Sci Fi Channel and videogame-oriented outlet G4 have snapped up off-network cable rights to ABC's "Lost," and will star airing the drama next fall. Link To Original Article

How do I reset the SAVE/OPEN options when downloading files? I inadvertedly set it to open only. The only support I found in microsoft.com doesn't work with Vista : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177976/en-us#appliesto Thanks

Hello, I have a problem with installing ultimate extras. the automatic update doesn't show eny error messages, but I havent install the DreamScene end others updates. Does anybody know how to download Ultimate updates manually? Thanks for your time

Hi! I have a problem with time synchronization on a MS Windows Server 2003 SP2. In the Windows domain there are two DCs (both Windows Server 2003 SP2). Their Windows Time Services (W32Time) are set as follows (I used advice in http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/a0fcd250-e5f7-41b3-b0e8-240f8236e2101033.mspx?mfr=true ): The DC1 (has PDC role) synchronizes time with two NTP servers on the Internet (zg1.ntp.carnet.hr and zg2.ntp.carnet.hr). I set this using the following commands: w32tm /config /update /manualpeerlist:"zg1.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8 zg2.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes net stop w32time net start w32time w3…

Hi! I have a problem with time synchronization on a MS Windows Server 2003 SP2. In the Windows domain there are two DCs (both Windows Server 2003 SP2). Their Windows Time Services (W32Time) are set as follows (I used advice in http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/a0fcd250-e5f7-41b3-b0e8-240f8236e2101033.mspx?mfr=true ): The DC1 (has PDC role) synchronizes time with two NTP servers on the Internet (zg1.ntp.carnet.hr and zg2.ntp.carnet.hr). I set this using the following commands: w32tm /config /update /manualpeerlist:"zg1.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8 zg2.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes net stop w32time net start w32time …

for some reason the picture of my daughter which is on my desk top and is in my folder keeps disapearing andy thoughts??

Hi! I have a problem with time synchronization on a MS Windows Server 2003 SP2. In the Windows domain there are two DCs (both Windows Server 2003 SP2). Their Windows Time Services (W32Time) are set as follows (I used advice in http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/a0fcd250-e5f7-41b3-b0e8-240f8236e2101033.mspx?mfr=true ): The DC1 (has PDC role) synchronizes time with two NTP servers on the Internet (zg1.ntp.carnet.hr and zg2.ntp.carnet.hr). I set this using the following commands: w32tm /config /update /manualpeerlist:"zg1.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8 zg2.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes net stop w32time net start w32time w3…

Hi! I have a problem with time synchronization on a MS Windows Server 2003 SP2. In the Windows domain there are two DCs (both Windows Server 2003 SP2). Their Windows Time Services (W32Time) are set as follows (I used advice in http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/a0fcd250-e5f7-41b3-b0e8-240f8236e2101033.mspx?mfr=true ): The DC1 (has PDC role) synchronizes time with two NTP servers on the Internet (zg1.ntp.carnet.hr and zg2.ntp.carnet.hr). I set this using the following commands: w32tm /config /update /manualpeerlist:"zg1.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8 zg2.ntp.CARNet.hr,0x8" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes net stop w32time net start w32time …

Hello I have installed CVSNT application on two windows 2000 PCs. On one PC the application acts as server and another PC its a client. Now the problem is the CVS client PC is trying to authenticate to CVS server PC using sspi or pserver protocol but its getting timeout. I am cvs client on win XP pc also they are getting authenticated with win2000 cvs server PC. I tried authenticating the same client PC to another cvs server PC which is a windows XP machine, it works fine. Problem seems to occur when both are Win 2000 PCs. Windows 2000 version on both PCs is 5.0.0.2195 SP4. Here is the error message:- Logging in to :sspi:Administr…

I don't know whether this will be of use to anyone but until today, my W2K has not been updating correctly for a couple of weeks and other strange things have been happening - in particular the event service failing to start. I tried all the troubleshooting articles, trawled though all the security policy settings and went through the registry with a fine toothcomb - all to no avail. On a whim, I looked at the security settings on the .evt files in %SYSTEMROOT%/System32/config and found that only my user had full control so I added SYSTEM, SERVICE and Administrators to the folder security settings and bingo - I could start the event service and view the e…

i have mp3s that are i belive are in hebrew and they are showing up as random characters so i cant read them. i have added hebrew in my regional settings but it did not help

The removal and reinstall worked perfectly. I had the same problem. Thank you. "S.Sengupta" wrote: > Remove and reinstall all USB controllers.Then update the drivers(from > the manufacturer's websites). > > regards, > S.Sengupta[MS-MVP] > > > > Mike1988 wrote: > > > > > "S.Sengupta" wrote: > > > > > >>'General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP' > >>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310575 > >> > >>regards, > >>S.Sengupta[MS-MVP] > >> > >> > >> > >>Mike1988 wrote: > >> > >> > >>&…