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Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista.Microsoft has announced that it is "scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe", and that "the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar."[2] Windows 7 is expected to be release

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All across India, software is transforming the way we do business. But you know the secret driving these successes. They’re not just applications, they’re genuine masterpieces. They’re the product of creativity, hard work, and analytical rigor from developers like you.

The world's first Windows-based online desktop named 'Nivio' was launched in the capital today.

Simply put, 'Nivio' as a service will allow users global access to a personal virtual desktop from any Internet-connected device.
And, it will offer subscribers an array of services-on-demand that include: renting of software applications, accessing a variety of educational content, and expanding of storage to keep pictures, music, data, and so on.

WBox is a simple HTTP Testing Tool written in ANSI C which works on a POSIX system like Linux. Windows systems are not supported and compiles on a MacOS X system. It is a 20 Kb zip file which has code written in ANSI C. We can use it to perform many different tasks which include

Benchmarking how much time it takes to generate content for your web application.
Web server and web application stressing.

Finally, two Linux groups merging to offer a better unified face to real competition!

I remembered Scott McNealy's words during Sun Developer Conference back in 2002 in Bangalore. His words were "Do not develop for any OS, not even for Solaris, develop on Java so that your investment is safe on any OS" Only visionaries dare to say this at the cost of their own business interest (Solaris).

Remote desktop connection "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively"
SYMPTOMS
If you are not an administrator and try to use the Remote Desktop Connection tool, you may receive the following error message:
The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively.
CAUSE
This issue occurs because the user account is not a member of the local Remote Desktop Users group.

Red Hat's latest free Linux disribution has new features so good that Greg Schaffer made the switch.

As a network professional, I have used various Linux-based systems for many years in troubleshooting and monitoring networks. The wide array of open-source applications made Linux an attractive and cost-effective solution for a variety of network management uses. However, Linux has never been my operating system of choice for my office desktop. Its limitations in other areas and often cumbersome installation and configuration, simply put, left it as a specialized operating system for specific needs.

That is, until now. Red Hat Inc. recently released its latest free distribution of Linux, Fedora Core 6. I was so impressed with this release that I have replaced one of my two desktop machines operating systems with it. Here's why you, as a networker, need to seriously look at Fedora Core 6.

Ease of installation

There are many distributions available based on the Linux kernel. A distribution bundles the Linux kernel with various open-source applications and drivers to create a customized operating system. The larger the distribution the less chance that a necessary item (such as a device driver or software application) needs to be downloaded and installed separately.

The installation of the basic Fedora Core distribution, as with previous Fedora releases, is quite simple. Download five CD images or one DVD image, burn the disks and boot from the media (disk 1 if installing from CD). The install process is graphical or, if on an older system, can be performed via text menus. Either way, the options are the same, and a machine that requires a text-based installation does not necessarily mean the GUI OS front end cannot run.

There are many packages available for installation, but for the basic setup it's best to choose from the three generic options offered for office productivity, development and Web services. You should choose all three if you'll want to add features that depend on these later, but it's not necessary. If you add packages later, Fedora will automatically determine and install necessary dependent packages.

Once basic information is entered (IP address or DHCP, machine name, disk partitioning, etc.) the installation program determines the selected package dependencies and begins the installation process. Time to complete is dependent on options selected and machine type, but even an old PIII with a 6 GB drive completed the installation in less than 45 minutes.

Whether a completed system is arrived at through a simple exercise or hair-pulling moments, ultimately it's the applications that can run on the system that bring value to installing an open-source operating system. By bundling many useful packages with its distribution, this is where Fedora Core excels.

OpenOffice.

On installation, selecting the office productivity option installed the open-source OpenOffice 2.0 suite. OpenOffice is a multiplatform application with versions that run not only on Linux but Windows, OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD. So you don't need a Linux-based operating system to run OpenOffice, but it integrates with Linux quite well.

One of the major impediments for running Linux on an office system has been the lack of products that can interface well with Microsoft Office. Periodically over the last several years I have evaluated such products and found them to be substandard at best. A network professional needs to produce documents so users of Microsoft Office can view them. None of the previous evaluations accomplished that to my satisfaction.

Not so with OpenOffice. The package includes a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc) and a presentation module (Impress). All appear to integrate well with Microsoft Office.

I'm most "impressed" with Impress. Spreadsheet and word processor integrations have progressed well over the years, but the rule of thumb seemed to be if you wanted to create a PowerPoint presentation, you needed to purchase PowerPoint. Impress presentations work well in PowerPoint and vice-versa.

After installing Fedora Core with OpenOffice on my desktop machine, the first test I performed was to import an existing PowerPoint presentation that I needed to modify for a seminar the next day. Working in Impress was virtually identical to working in PowerPoint.
I have had similar integration successes with Word and Excel documents. In fact, this article was written using both Word and Write, transferring between suites several times. That sort of interoperability is critical when considering the large installed Microsoft Office base worldwide.

I'm sure there are some differences with advanced features that may produce incompatibility, but for the majority of documents produced the two suites appear completely compatible. For basic document producers, OpenOffice is a feature-rich, cost-effective solution.

OpenOffice is of course not the only application that comes with Fedora. For example, GIMP performs photo manipulation, Rhythmbox plays music files and is a front end for Internet radio, and QCad is a CAD application.

Remote desktop.

A colleague of mine, also a Fedora user, remarked that an open-source remote desktop client was included in the previous distribution. This was the spark that caused me to look at Fedora as a day-to-day desktop operating system.

Remote Desktop is perhaps one of the best tools Microsoft has introduced in the past few years. An outgrowth of Terminal Services and bundled with XP, the Remote Desktop client produces the exact desktop of the office machine or Windows server. After installing Fedora Core, I selected "rdesktop" using "Add/Remove Software" to download and install the application.

To me, this was the killer app for installing Fedora Core on my desktop. If I could access my Microsoft machines from a Linux box, a major hurdle to converting to Linux on the desktop was overcome. The application has performed flawlessly. Like its Microsoft counterpart, you can specify different server ports besides the default TCP 3389.

Network tools.

As noted in the beginning of this article, Linux has traditionally been a platform for running many excellent open-source network administration related tools. Usually the process for installing these tools involved installing a base Linux system and downloading and installing the specific tools manually. Not anymore!

Some of the best network tools, including Iptraf and MRTG, are included on the distribution. You can either install them when installing the OS (by selecting Custom Installation) or check the boxes for installation after in "Add/Remove Software." Either way, determining where to download them from, extracting and installing are automatic.

Of course, if there is a package desired but not included on the distribution list, manually going to the download site and installing is still possible.

Finally, with these and other packages, there is a software update feature available that automatically looks for updates in the installed packages. After the initial installation several packages needed updating. While the process of downloading and installing the updates took some time, I did not have to worry about not having the latest version.

Cost.

The best advantage to open-source distributions is the relatively low cost. Monetarily, it's obviously limited to the expense of the distribution media. Realistically, there is the support angle to consider as well. However, with ample support groups and an open-source community that continues to produce excellent packages, support is often a Google search away.

Summary.

There are many other features of Fedora Core 6, and I am looking forward to investigating them more in depth. The bottom line is that networkers should consider Fedora Core 6 not just for network monitoring but as a desktop office tool. The features and ease of installation coupled with the low cost make investigating time installing and discovering Fedora Core 6's features worthwhile.

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday confirmed its forecast for shipments of Xbox 360 video game consoles and said its ability to convert occasional online gamers into console users would be key to growth.

Peter Moore, vice president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division which oversees Xbox, confirmed the company's expectation that Xbox 360 shipments would reach 10 million by the end of 2006, and 13 million to 15 million by the end of its 2007 fiscal year.

The software company's fiscal year ends June 30, 2007.

In October, the company said it had shipped 6 million consoles worldwide.

Automate the desktop backup proc­ess whenever possible. Best intentions are exactly that.

Have users organize and consolidateimportant data in a single location for easier backup.

Use continuous data protection when data sets are evolving at a high rate.

Use an online service or VPN, plus a connection-sensing local client, for remote users.

Put desktop and laptop backups in your central data store to leverage its backup and redundancy.

Are you using pirated software? If so, you may get some unwanted attention from the software manufacturer until you switch to a genuine product. While genuine Windows users will be left undisturbed, users of pirated software will get regular alerts which read thus: “This copy of Windows is not genuine; you may be a victim of software counterfeiting.”

Come June, and your pirated desktop software may cause you quite a bit of irritation. You may get a pestering pop-up box that will remind you during start-up, log-in and at regular intervals, while you use the software, that yours is a pirate version.

I hope the Security Shootout indicates a genuine shift of direction by Microsoft, towards real security in their products..... but I must admit to being skeptical.

Since 1999, I have been associated with New Media Security, who develop strong encryption solutions for PC and PDA devices, so I've come to understand a lot about the security shortcomings of various Windows versions.

During that period, Microsoft introduced Windows 2000 and the Encrypted File System (EFS). On the face of it, this seemed like a positive development. However, Windows 2000 and XP still suffer from one extremely serious flaw in their security, to do with the way in which passwords are encrypted.

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Steven Sinofsky is a rare bird on Microsoft's Redmond campus -- a manager who actually delivers software on time. He's now been put in charge of Microsoft's Windows group, which has seen endless delays in the release of its new Vista operating system.

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'e–magination is more important then knowledge'

To begin to craft database driven, PHP powered, commercial applications, the following needs to be installed, and then configured to communicate with each other in harmony on your hardware and OS of choice.

• Apache 2.0 as the web server of choice
• MySQL 5.XX as the database engine of choice
• PHP 5.X as the middleware programming environment of choice

I'm not going to delve into what will be the best hardware platform, and I'm only going to refer to two operating systems:

Linux: (Any flavor, although I do have a weakness for RedHat/Open Core)

This has been going in my mind for over 5 years within. Should a nation with more than a billion bodies be busy coding for billing or need to seriously innovate to develop to distribute?

I think I found the answer in Samooha http://www.samooha.com. Develop to distribute is the best way to go forward. It would not only be in the interest of a nation that is emerging out of woods but also would be in the greater interest of a balanced world.

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