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is there a way that i can make windows XP automatically reactivate a disk rather than i have to go into the disk management and do it manualy. i mean windows can detect the connection of the disk so it would be nice if it could also reactivate it.

is there a way that i can make windows XP automatically reactivate a disk rather than i have to go into the disk management and do it manualy. i mean windows can detect the connection of the disk so it would be nice if it could also reactivate it.

my desktop background has disappeared. I see it briefly when i shut down or when i start up, but my background reverts to basic blue. and appears to be disabled in desktop proberties. appreciate any help

my desktop background has disappeared. I see it briefly when i shut down or when i start up, but my background reverts to basic blue. and appears to be disabled in desktop proberties. appreciate any help

[/url]AP - A music industry group Thursday said it would cap "per channel" fees for major Internet radio companies streaming music on multiple channels. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - The iPhone makes me mad. Not, mind you, at the iPhone itself, but mad at cell-phone manufacturers who have saddled us for years with interfaces that lure us into labyrinths of menus. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Microsoft Corp., facing its second Xbox 360 headache of the summer, will replace parts of its Wireless Racing Wheel video game controllers after 50 reports that they overheated and released smoke. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Google has promised to give content makers control over*advertisements overlaid on video clips*they post to its YouTube video sharing Web site. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co (6752.T) said on Friday that Nokia's (NOK1V.HE) replacement of mobile phone batteries made by the Japanese electronics maker is likely to cost it 10-20 billion yen ($86-$172 million). Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Via Technologies has developed a processor that consumes a maximum of 1 watt of power and is intended for use in mobile devices and embedded applications. Link To Original Article

The unfortunate thing about writing all your thoughts down in a blog is that it makes it very clear just how wrong I can be sometimes. My "code" is online, for everyone to see, analyze, and critique. And critique you do. :-) A case in point is my fulminations earlier today on XenSource and its alleged abandonment of the Xen project. John Vigeant, a friend from my Novell days and XenSource's director of Business Development, kindly swatted me in an email for errors in my post. Witness my sackcloth and ashes (with John's permission - he must have some perverse pleasure in seeing me don this hairshirt :-): ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - IBM's Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its*Jazz collaboration framework*into open source, according to an executive of the company. Link To Original Article

Wow. Double wow. I haven't seen Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols this worked up since, well, ever. He could almost be writing for The Register with the way he smacks around Microsoft for its top-25 (most active, mind you) open-source projects on CodePlex. It makes for very fun reading. It doesn't, however, accurately portray the projects--there are some that actually sound useful and interesting--but I don't want a little (just a little, mind you) accuracy get in the way of a good ol' cage match between Microsoft and SJVN. My favorite (and probably most apt) comment: ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - The Cognos-IBM Risk Adjusted Profitability Blueprint provides a performance-management framework for building multi-dimensional, product-level profitability plans and forecasts aligned with risk-management strategies. Link To Original Article

As Mary Jo Foley reports, Microsoft has pulled down its "Get the [wrong] Facts" website and replaced it with a "Compare" website. Consider this the kinder, gentler version of getting the "facts." Unless, of course, you're Red Hat. The site doesn't talk about Novell or other Linux distributions. But it spares no criticism of Red Hat, the one vendor that hasn't bowed down to savor its toejam. ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Dubai's new state-backed aviation group, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, said Friday it was interested in buying factories put up for sale by European plane maker Airbus. Link To Original Article

Against the OEM's wishes, the Accelerator 917V features a quad-core CPU. (Credit: Xtreme Notebooks) After last week's post about Xtreme Notebooks squeezing a quad-core processor inside a laptop, another small laptop vendor, ProStar Computer, contacted me to say such a feat is impossible. In his email, the ProStar ... Link To Original Article

CNET Channel has announced that it is partnering with Microsoft to help consumers purchase Windows-supported products with ease and little hesitation. Just what I wanted from my unbiased, neutral news broker. CNET Channel's high-quality, accurate and consistent product content helps over 2,100 high-technology manufacturers and channel businesses in 35 national markets drive their online businesses and increase sales effectiveness. As an aggregator of best-of-breed content and e-commerce services, CNET Channel will now deliver 'Certified for Windows Vista' and 'Works with Windows Vista' logo information ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Sony Corp. took another step to lure new customers for its high-end PlayStation3, saying it would sell a device to let users record live television that can be stored on the game console or transferred to the PlayStation Portable for later viewing. Link To Original Article

All the duplicate file finder tools I have seen so far allow only to find dupes within the same directory tree or even partition. What I need is a dupes file finder which finds only those dupes which have a twin/copy in one file set (e.g. the recursive directory tree D:\newfiles\*.*) and the other twin/copy in another, different recursive directory tree (e.g. D:\proj\*.*). Dupes within the same directory are of no interest. Does someone know such a "special" dupe file finder ? Frank

All the duplicate file finder tools I have seen so far allow only to find dupes within the same directory tree or even partition. What I need is a dupes file finder which finds only those dupes which have a twin/copy in one file set (e.g. the recursive directory tree D:\newfiles\*.*) and the other twin/copy in another, different recursive directory tree (e.g. D:\proj\*.*). Dupes within the same directory are of no interest. Does someone know such a "special" dupe file finder ? Frank

All the duplicate file finder tools I have seen so far allow only to find dupes within the same directory tree or even partition. What I need is a dupes file finder which finds only those dupes which have a twin/copy in one file set (e.g. the recursive directory tree D:\newfiles\*.*) and the other twin/copy in another, different recursive directory tree (e.g. D:\proj\*.*). Dupes within the same directory are of no interest. Does someone know such a "special" dupe file finder ? Frank

Hi all, I would like to know how I could install the FTP service and have it work without using the Windows Component Wizard. I did come close, I had the FTP service to show and I was able to run ftp in console but I couldn't start the FTP service. Anyone know some kind of guide or maybe (but I would be surprise) a installer to install the FTP service. Thanks,

Hi all, I would like to know how I could install the FTP service and have it work without using the Windows Component Wizard. I did come close, I had the FTP service to show and I was able to run ftp in console but I couldn't start the FTP service. Anyone know some kind of guide or maybe (but I would be surprise) a installer to install the FTP service. Thanks,

I'm using Vista, but, a lot of the employees in my department are still using XP. Sometimes a user will log in and they'll notice that they've lost their desktop icons, and, they've lost all their IE favorites. If I look into their Documents and Settings folder, I'll see a new profile created. Originally their profile was named with their username plus a dot, then the name of the domain. For example: "pb4072.intdom." That's my profile folder name. Now, sometimes, a user logs in and suddenly, they have a new profile. So, in the example I gave above, instead of "pb4072.intdom," it's just "pb4072" as the name of the profile. This is incredible, and frustrating. I hav…