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InfoWorld - Nokia Corp. revealed its new online multimedia strategy on Wednesday, and showed mobile users the door. It also unveiled a range of new phones for playing games and music, and demonstrated a new user interface for future multimedia phones. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - A recent federal court ruling pertaining to open-source software in model railroads could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether, according to Mark Radcliffe, general counsel for the Open Source Initiative. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - SAP AG has asked a U.S. court to order settlement talks in its legal battle with Oracle Corp., arguing that Oracle exaggerated its claims against the German software maker. Oracle said it opposed such talks and accused SAP of trying to "make this case go away." Link To Original Article

Intel will come with a new way to connect its chips in 2008/2009, a shift that marks a big change in how the company's chips function. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will move to the Common System Interface, a high-speed way to connect chips, at that time. ... Link To Original Article

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Microsoft may wish that it were above the law, but the Free Software Foundation has issued a press release calling Microsoft to repentance for its efforts to deny GPLv3's hold on it. We do not...agree with Microsoft's characterization of the situation involving GPLv3. Microsoft cannot by any act of anticipatory repudiation divest itself of its obligation to respect others' copyrights. If Microsoft distributes our works licensed under GPLv3, or pays others to distribute them on its behalf, it is bound to do so under the terms of that license. It may not do so under any other terms; it cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3. ... Link To …

PC World - Three months after it opened its platform to outside developers, Facebook Inc. is taking steps to prevent some third-party applications from engaging in what the social networking company considers inappropriate actions. Link To Original Article

What is a setting in 2003 server to disable prompting for username and password ? When starting a remote connection directly from client (XP), like this: mstsc.exe test.rdp, password is not asked, but if command is started remotely from server like this: psexec.exe \\10.10.10.10.3 -s -u user1 -p user1 -I -d mstsc.exe test.rdp, everything works ok, but password is allways prompted.

For the past few reboots, I have been receiving an error that says lsass failed to start. I am running Windows Vista Ultimate and haven't had any problems before. There is also no error number, and it doesn't say lsass.exe, it only says lsass failed to start with an ok button. I looked around the net and found that it could be a virus, however Nod32 hasn't picked it up, and I have only seen the virus in XP, not in Vista. Anyone help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Sir I am facing one problem in winxp professional My problem is I login in safe mode with Administration user to uninstall some program so at the same time I went to my computer manage I went to users and groups and I change my user (Personal user) Account password after I reboot my system in normal mode I am not able to get any option in that its changed my setting like safe mod I don’t know what to do its work group computer I hope I can get help thanks -- kumar

Hi, I don't know anything about pki keys or certificates and could really use some help. I have a WinXP system running so I'm sure I have the correct certificate. We use Checkpoint VPN-1 to access our corporate servers remotely. We are allowed to run this on our home PCs but we can't get tech support for home. I upgraded to Windows Vista and I'm having a really hard time getting this to work. I have the VPN-1 client that runs on Vista and that's working. I guess my first probem is I'd like to delete a pki key I installed. I tried deleting it with certmgr but when I try and import a new key it tells me the profile exists. When I go to the pki management…

Hi, I'm recieving Vista Activation errors using MAK Error code: 0x80072F8F MS Said it's a security issue, what ports do i need to open in the firewall to enable activation through the internet ? -- Or Tsemah YSIDE

I have had two important updates fail to install the error code comes up as 641 the two failed up dates are Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB929729) Installation date: ‎29/‎08/‎2007 09:03 Installation status: Failed Error details: Code 641 Update type: Important and Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181) Installation date: ‎29/‎08/‎2007 09:03 Installation status: Failed Error details: Code 641 Update type: Important could someone please tell me how i can get these to install

Hi, Teachers at our school need to swap between two different domains during the workdays. How can this most elegantly (and quickly) be achieved? regards jake

Hi, Teachers at our school need to swap between two different domains during the workdays. How can this most elegantly (and quickly) be achieved? regards jake

Hi We have a farm of W2K Terminal Servers. A Group Policy on the OU that contains the Servers redirects "My Documents" from teh profile to a UNC path, based on security membership. This works without any problems. We have discovered that if the Office apps are't tailored for each user when their account is created, then the default locatin for documents (eg Word files) is the "My Documents" withing the profile. This also applies to auto-saved files, etc. We have tried loading the .adm files for Office into Active Directory to set these on a test OU that contains a few user accounts, but have found that if we specify "My Documents" as the file location…

Hello, I'm from Germany and I got a serious problem after installing the updates from August, 22, 2007. After installing the updates, my Outlook (2003) as part of Office 2003 Small Business Edition, shows a strange behaviour: Outlook cannot open Word-documents attached to the mails. The message sounds as follows: There's an error during opening the file. Please try one of the following steps: Make sure you have enough rights to open the file! Is there enough diskspace? Open the file with recovery-textconverter. Well I'm logged in as administrator. The disk has enough space (nearly 50% used). Opening the file with the recovery-textconverter option …

I was supposed to recieve a zipped xlsx file from a friend,but when i recieved it , i noticed that it was all broken up into xml files and i am open to read it as an excel file .i have installe the file converters for office and even tried different versions of winzip but when i ask my friend to send the files to me and to another friend i was unable to open but the other was able to .Please help

-- Really concerned "rajeshgk" wrote: > When I do windows update , I get the following error. > > [Error number: 0x80072EFD] > The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are > trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem >

I am the sole user of my pc, yet when I want to back up my Microsoft Money data file to my second hd, Vista blocks that because I do nat have adminstrative rights. I have tried to overcome this by disabling UAC, but in doing so I get other warnings that my pc is at risk. Question: Is there an easy way for me to obtain these administrative rights, being the sole owner/user of my computer. (I use Vista Business)

Hey guys after I updated Windows Vista I restarted my computer. When the login scree appeared with my profile it showed that there was two profiles. It appears that it created a duplicate profile on the login screen, but it didn't create one within windows. Anybody have this problem or know how to resolve this issue?

Hello, When trying to uninstall Roxio Update Manager the following error message appears: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. T his can occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. When viewing the problem details for the above error message the following appears: Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: msiexec.exe Application Version: 4.0.6000.16386 Application Timestamp: 4549af77 Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bd80 Exception Code: c00000fd Exception Offset: 00020a6c OS Ver…

Hi there, I've got a curious problem regarding client certificates. I'm using Windows 2003 Server Certificate Authority client certificates for a web application to limit access to a web application. I've also created the client certificates from the standard 'User' certificate template. The problem I've got is that for a while all users could use the app fine with these certificates in place, however over the past month or two only some users report that they can't get into the web application and they get a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error message (client machines are Windows XP tablet edition running IE 6 SP2). I've checked their machines and the certi…

Hi there, I've got a curious problem regarding client certificates. I'm using Windows 2003 Server Certificate Authority client certificates for a web application to limit access to a web application. I've also created the client certificates from the standard 'User' certificate template. The problem I've got is that for a while all users could use the app fine with these certificates in place, however over the past month or two only some users report that they can't get into the web application and they get a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error message (client machines are Windows XP tablet edition running IE 6 SP2). I've checked their machines and the…

I have a dell dimension 9200 along with vista home basic. When I installed an additional DVDRW (Lite-on LH-20A1L), it cannot explore an written DVD through windows explore. But actually it read the disk, since I can find the files under DOS or play the files using nero home essential. The problem is only of windows explorer. When I tried to open an window through the autoplay, a window was opend but subsequently closed. Is there any method or patch to solve this problem? Any help is highly appreciated.