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InfoWorld - Ask Plone users what they like best about the open source content management software and chances are a key feature they'll list along with ease of use and multilingual support is the community of experts that's grown around the product. Link To Original Article

Researchers at Intel this week are showing off an silicon modulator that can pass 40 gigabits of data in a second, a new record that indicates that fiber-inside-computers is really coming. Still life of 40-gbps modulator (Credit: Intel ) A modulator is an component from the fiber optic industry. It essentially ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - The software that police and enterprise security teams use to investigate wrongdoing on computers is not as secure as it should be, according to researchers with Isec Partners. Link To Original Article

Intel's running a special on quad-core chips this summer just ahead of the back-to-school rush. The company cut the price of its Core 2 Quad Q6600 (PDF) processor in half on Monday, just a week after it introduced a new quad-core chip for desktop PC customers. This is how ... Link To Original Article

Today on CNET's Road Trip 2007: My body and my mind are in rebellion because standing on a glass bridge through which you can see thousands of feet down into the Grand Canyon is simply wrong. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - News Corp.'s popular MySpace.com social networking site hosted Web pages for at least 29,000 known sex offenders as of July 2007, North Carolina's Attorney General said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

Cracks are a bad thing in general, but they might help speed up chips. AmberWave Systems, which specializes in semiconductor substructures, discussed a new method for growing germanium and other, faster semiconductor materials on top of silicon at the recent Semicon West conference, according to the Technology Review magazine of ... Link To Original Article

House of Representatives panel chairman says peer-to-peer networks pose a "national security threat," new laws needed. Link To Original Article

There are two upcoming votes on the fate of Microsoft's Office Open XML, a document format that has brought about bare-knuckle business tactics and fierce philosophical disputes. Microsoft is in the process of trying to gain standard status at the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, a European standards ... Link To Original Article

BusinessWeek Online - For those who think that online worlds created in venues such as Second Life and online games such as World of Warcraft are just fun and games, think again. Business school professors and economics researchers are turning to these virtual worlds as dynamic laboratories to shed light on some of the venerable mysteries of economic behavior. Link To Original Article

We have a new WSUS 2.0 implementation with settings defined within Group Policy--download and install for computers, download and notify for servers. Will the update process work if computers have BIOS and NIC support for Wake-on-LAN and are powered off and network adapters cabled to the network? Or does the update process depend upon all computers being powered on during the time of night when GP defines when updating occurs?

HI, I am trying to enable shadow copies on our file server, with a raid 5 array. When I go toselect the volume the shadow copies will be stored , it only gives me the option of the drive that has the original files on. There is no option for any other physical disk. Can someone please advise? Thanks

HI, I am trying to enable shadow copies on our file server, with a raid 5 array. When I go toselect the volume the shadow copies will be stored , it only gives me the option of the drive that has the original files on. There is no option for any other physical disk. Can someone please advise? Thanks

This is for anyone who's having trouble with WU (BITS/AU): http://castlecops.com/t106642-How_To_Fix_Windows_Update_BITS_Newly_Edited..html -or- http://www.castlecops.com/postlite106642-.html [i wrote it -- I would have posted the entire set of instructions here, but I wasn't sure if I could upload the Zip file with the Registry fixes on this N.G., so anyone could subsequently download it. However, the necessary File ready for downloading, along with the lengthy instructions are all located at the above link.] If the above link doesn't work, go to: http://castlecops.com/ Click "Forums" right below the Castlecops logo, then go to the "General Computer Problem…

After hours of trouble I managed to get IE7 to connect automatically but now on shutting IE7 down it does not automatically disconnect - although I think I got all the settings set to do this. Can you advise?

guys,we got 2 companys.there is a fuollt rust between both company's ad.company is in w2003 native mode,company 2 is in native w2000 mode. when i want to add users from company 2 to my folders, i need too use a universal groups cause universal groups are the only groups company 2 can see.can some1 explain this? thanks in advance.

guys,we got 2 companys.there is a fuollt rust between both company's ad.company is in w2003 native mode,company 2 is in native w2000 mode. when i want to add users from company 2 to my folders, i need too use a universal groups cause universal groups are the only groups company 2 can see.can some1 explain this? thanks in advance.

Thanks Sally. You don't know how much your advice assisted me. It was spot on. In fact, I even uninstalled SP4 rollup after fixing up the printing issue and reinstalled it to prove that by deleting HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\PostS PUpgrade) and then restarting the spooler, it alone solved the problem - and it did. Even though I spent countless hours trying to fix the problem before taking your advice, I was much relieved when your technique worked. thanks again -- jojo1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jojo1's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=28202 View this thread: http://…

HI, I have XP Pro. When I am using FF and I download to a HD directory, it always tries to access the floppy drive several times before after a while actually downloading it to the dir I selected. I have checked FF and their forums and have cleared the download cache. Is there something in XP that I can check? Thanks rock

Hi Is there a good way to track files on a Windows filesystem?? I know that one can look at the Journal or hook into the events generated, but unfortunately many applications created a temporary file and when data is saved the original file is deleted and the temporary file is renamed to the original name. Regards, Søren

Hi Is there a good way to track files on a Windows filesystem?? I know that one can look at the Journal or hook into the events generated, but unfortunately many applications created a temporary file and when data is saved the original file is deleted and the temporary file is renamed to the original name. Regards, Søren

I've just defragged a partition. This time I paid close attention and I see that some files are stranded in the outer reaches of the partition. In the old DOS days utilities like PCTools defragged but brought all the files to one end of the disk leaving the maximum unused space in one slab. Is there anythin in XP that does this? Colin

Hi, When I try to amend contact info in Windows mail I get an error message saying: Preview handler surrogate host has stopped working Any ideas on how to rectify this problem would be much appreciated

This is a new one for me: on a Windows 2003 server, some files are being restored / migrated from another server. The files are being created by Windows Backup (in restore mode) as "SIS Links". There is some hidden folder in the root that apparently contains the actual files, and I guess the files on the NTFS file system are simply hard links to those files? What the heck is this SIS feature? I'm never experienced such a thing in using hundreds of W2K and W2K3 systems, doing many thousands of backups and restores. Is this a side effect of some option on the restore? In Windows itself, is there some registry option, or UI, that controls whether this SI…

This is a new one for me: on a Windows 2003 server, some files are being restored / migrated from another server. The files are being created by Windows Backup (in restore mode) as "SIS Links". There is some hidden folder in the root that apparently contains the actual files, and I guess the files on the NTFS file system are simply hard links to those files? What the heck is this SIS feature? I'm never experienced such a thing in using hundreds of W2K and W2K3 systems, doing many thousands of backups and restores. Is this a side effect of some option on the restore? In Windows itself, is there some registry option, or UI, that controls whether …