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InfoWorld - The gap between broadband haves and have nots in the European Union has widened during the past year, a trend that might warrant price regulation similar to that imposed on the market for*mobile roaming charges*earlier this year, the European Commission said Monday. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) , the world's largest cell phone maker, introduced on Monday a new 2135 CDMA phone for the North American market. Link To Original Article

FT.com - 10 years and 13 per cent - happy birthday mobile internetTen years ago, it was great to be in technology. It meant you were clever, but more importantly, probably well endowed with options. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - This week Microsoft said it would*patch Windows*to reduce the risk of a new kind of Web-based security vulnerability, but security researchers say that other operating systems are probably at risk too. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Pouncing on an opportunity to add another weapon in an increasingly bitter business software battle, Oracle has offered to buy struggling rival BEA Systems for $6.7 billion in its latest shot aimed at another industry leader, SAP. Link To Original Article

Apparently, OpenOffice 3.0 is intent on picking a fight with Microsoft Outlook. Bonne chance, mes amis. I don't mean to imply that it can't be done, but am rather suggesting that this is not the right way to go about it. Zimbra, sure. Or Mozilla's Thunderbird (standalone), sure. But bundled into OpenOffice? I'm not seeing it. This arises from a presentation delivered earlier this year at the OpenOffice conference: ...[O]ne thing that really caught my attention was [a] reference to including a Personal Information Manager (PIM) [in OpenOffice]. More specifically the presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an…

FT.com - On any given weekend, a typical internet user might log on to a social networking website to catch up with friends. Or, having received an e-mail from an online retailer or cinema, they might wish to find out more about a forthcoming sale or new film. Link To Original Article

(Credit: Netcraft)Glyn Moody notes that Apache's lead in web servers over Microsoft's IIS is at its skinniest ever: 10%. Apache continues to gain (1 million sites last month). The problem is that Microsoft's IIS is also growing, and at a faster clip (3 million sites last ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd zipped past 10 trillion yen ($85 billion) in market value on blistering demand for its red-hot game machines, having almost tripled in value since launching its new Wii console late last year. Link To Original Article

When I access the internet, I receive the following: SystFader:iexplore.exe-Bad Image The DLLC:\windows\system32\olepro32.dll is not a valid Windows image. This happens when I access some programs on my computer. I am computer challenged please help. -- Sarge

Hello, Recently i noticed i cannot save changes to a gpo. When i try to save it i get a message "The Group Policy snapin was unable to save your changes due to the following error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." The strange thing is that this only happens when i try to edit a administrative template. I can edit other settings. Also it seems that i am able to edit the gpo's on a other DC, when i tell gpmc to use that DC. I did a rebuild of the sysvol tree (kb315457) but that did not help. I tried every sollution i found on the net but stil it isn't working. I looks to me like the problem is in the registry of…

Hello, Recently i noticed i cannot save changes to a gpo. When i try to save it i get a message "The Group Policy snapin was unable to save your changes due to the following error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." The strange thing is that this only happens when i try to edit a administrative template. I can edit other settings. Also it seems that i am able to edit the gpo's on a other DC, when i tell gpmc to use that DC. I did a rebuild of the sysvol tree (kb315457) but that did not help. I tried every sollution i found on the net but stil it isn't working. I looks to me like the problem is in the r…

Hi Carey Frisch I did as you suggested and I ran chkdsk/f it seems to have worked (so far). Thank you for the hint as the dialogue message was driving me insane. Thaks again!!!! "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: > I would also suggest running a disk cleanup and checkdisk: > > Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310312&Product=winxp > > How to Perform Disk Error Checking in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315265&Product=winxp > > Also, install the following: > > User Profile Hive Cleanup Service > http://w…

Hi Carey Frisch I did as you suggested and I ran chkdsk/f it seems to have worked (so far). Thank you for the hint as the dialogue message was driving me insane. Thaks again!!!! "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: > I would also suggest running a disk cleanup and checkdisk: > > Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kben-us310312&Product=winxp > > How to Perform Disk Error Checking in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kben-us315265&Product=winxp > > Also, install the following: > > User Profile Hive Cleanup Service > htt…

Hey, Does anyone have idea when reading nonpaged pool usage (by poolmon -n file.txt) the sum of bytes is different than what "Task manager" shows on "Kernel Memory" area ? Or are they equal at all ? -Petri-

Hey, Does anyone have idea when reading nonpaged pool usage (by poolmon -n file.txt) the sum of bytes is different than what "Task manager" shows on "Kernel Memory" area ? Or are they equal at all ? -Petri-

Hi Attempt sent to printer document is arises/appear If i want to open any file with *.doc extension . What setting i must change that this problem should be stoped -- Best regards VVP

Hi Attempt sent to printer document is arises/appear If i want to open any file with *.doc extension . What setting i must change that this problem should be stoped -- Best regards VVP

Vistax64 Business Windows 2003 R2 Our system is set up to use roaming profiles and folder redirection (scenario 3 in the "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide"). To summarise: I have checked on the server and the user account has a profile path set: \\server\share\username. I can see this from the client computer when logged in as username. Folder redirection has been set to \\server\user_data\%USERNAME% \Application Data for My documents etc. Again I can see this and subdirectories from the client computer. This has been working fine for some time. Over the weekend I was using the computer offline and now, having reconnected to the network, the accoun…

Hi All, I am having a strange problem, which I have to date been able to reproduce on three separate machines. The problem lies in browsing when using a limited account. It seems that even when internet security settings are set to the lowest possible settings, that pages that utalise the Telerik RAD Control suite (http://www.telerik.com) for ASP.Net do not display correctly. For example: http://development.super-date.co.uk or http://mick.codegurus.org This is not a problem when viewing the websites from higher privillaged accounts. I am assuming it is an issue because of the javascript these controls generate, however, I may well be wrong. I'm j…

When using the Bitlocker Drive Preparation tool on an existing Vista Ultimate installation, I'm unable to get the system to start from the new partition. The tool seems to do it's stuff, but when restarting, all I get is a "Missing Operating System" error message when the laptop trys to start. I boot with the Vista DVD and then attempt a repair, but the only way to get back into Vista is to make the original Vista partition active and repair that installation. The Boot directory is copied to the new directory, and so is the Bootmgr, but it still won't start. Would appreciate any and all thoughts! Thanks!

Hi, I just set up a new computer - C drive is shared and visible to my old computer. Both run XP SP2 w/ all the updates. --On my old computer the FT Wizard seems to run fine and asks me where to tranfer all the files. It selects a slew of applications and file types it wants to transfer. I can choose the C: drive of the new computer over my network and even create new folders on the new computer. --On my new computer the FT Wizard won't get past wanting me to make a CD for the Wizard to install on the old computer. FT Wizard is already installed on the old computer, yet the new computer gives me no option to search for files to transfer the way my old comput…

Hi, I just set up a new computer - C drive is shared and visible to my old computer. Both run XP SP2 w/ all the updates. --On my old computer the FT Wizard seems to run fine and asks me where to tranfer all the files. It selects a slew of applications and file types it wants to transfer. I can choose the C: drive of the new computer over my network and even create new folders on the new computer. --On my new computer the FT Wizard won't get past wanting me to make a CD for the Wizard to install on the old computer. FT Wizard is already installed on the old computer, yet the new computer gives me no option to search for files to transfer the way my old…

For the past week, have had a ton of problems on a normally very stable computer, seemingly after a Windows Update. Outlook 2003 hangs, IE7 hangs, BSODs, trouble installing software, error messages with references to audio drivers not working even though the sound is fine, etc. No locusts or plague yet, though. A few error messages have referenced MISEXEC.EXE, e.g., after an attent to run 'Detect & Repair' in Office 2003. Also get "cannot read/write to memory address 0x...' messages on startup and during use of IE7. My OS is XP Pro, Version 5.1.2600 SP2 Build 2600. I have searched the Knowledge Base and seen some older issues with MSIEXEC.EXE, but no…

I'm new to Vista. When I import pictures from my camera using windows all pictures in the Pictures folder are format .jpe and are very small (about 25 - 30 KB). The actual pictures on the camera are jpg and are full size (about 1200KB). Why don't the full pictures download? If I edit these tiny pictures, have I lost the full pictures? Sam