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Comments SPAM
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Whew couple of bad days with the comments spam. Not sure to why these should happen even from the blogging world. I hate this. Had got around 100-110 mails every 8 hrs:(. And cleaning them on my email account has made life not so easy. Thanks to Bryant who gives me space to put up my blog had to do some dirty tricks to stop such spam content. Thanks Bryant. I get to go to bed more peaceful tonight.
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Shrink VPC Image
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I had this unique requirement that I had to compact a .vhd image file as it had grown too big. Was looking for a feature in VPC to do this trick for me. A bit of searching amde me come to an conclusion that this was not possible. But during a quick ping with Deepak Gulati (ISV Evangalist), found this link to VPC SP1 and its capability to Virtual Disk Precompactor. This was a big boon. Thanks DG.
Here we go to how this works. VPC SP1 includes Virtual Disk Precompactor, a utility that is designed to "zero out"—that is, overwrite with zeros—any available blank space on a virtual hard disk. Now getting very important HDD space back to the host OS. First run the precompact command in the VPC Image disk. This will zero out the blank space. And once done, shutdown the image disk. Get to the host machine, VPC console -> File -> Virtual Disk Wizard. In the same select existing disk and select the VPC .vpd file and select the "Compact it" option. Thats it. The free space is given back to the host machine. Thanks MS for the option.
PS: It is a time consuming process though. But works for sure:). All the best and do install the VPC SP1 to get this new feature.
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Google is back and acquires Keyhole Corp
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"With Keyhole, you can fly like a superhero from your computer at home to a street corner somewhere else in the world - or find a local hospital, map a road trip or measure the distance between two points," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president, Product Management. "This acquisition gives Google users a powerful new search tool, enabling users to view 3D images of any place on earth as well as tap a rich database of roads, businesses and many other points of interest. Keyhole is a valuable addition to Google's efforts to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Read the complete press release.
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CODE COVERAGE EDITION - .NET Framework Version 2.0
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The .NET Framework Version 2.0 Code Coverage Edition Beta 1 is a special edition of the .NET Framework redistributable package that enables developers to give Microsoft direct feedback on what portions of the .NET Framework and Win32 their applications and components are most reliant on.
Download it on MSDN.
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My last 10 days
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Hmmm. Excuses after excuses. But believe me this is true. I am yet to get out of the shock :) ... Well, I was not able to keep this for long with me. Wanted to write about this and got the time just now ...
It was wrap-up time for me at SCT and preparing for the new venture. I joined Intel Corporation last week. Its like a dream to get into such a big org. I am into a series of training programs which are conducted internally. Will get soon into active blogging once I get going with my normal work surely.
Loads of updates waiting ...
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Check Your Updates
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Important MS04-029 Microsoft Windows Information Disclosure and Denial of Service
Important MS04-030 Microsoft Windows Denial of Service
Important MS04-031 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution
Critical MS04-032 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution
Critical MS04-033 Microsoft Office Code Execution
Critical MS04-034 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution
Critical MS04-035 Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Remote Code Execution
Critical MS04-036 Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Remote Code Execution
Critical MS04-037 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution
Critical MS04-038 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution
Summaries for these new bulletins may be found at the following pages:
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-oct.mspx
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SQL Server 2005 To Get ActiveViews Reporting
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“Microsoft is putting ActiveViews end-user reporting capabilities into its next-generation SQL Server 2005 database”
Most awaited news for sometime. Read it at Crn.com