I'm not sure the retweet tag (RT) also applies to blogs or not, but I thought I'd give it a try. Now to my point. Edwin posted a good blog this evening about re-occurring Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt the spreads via traditional journalism or blogs. I don't know for sure, but I suspect his post had something to do with an InformationWeek blog posted by.. more »

Today the Photostynth team has released a major new feature and a slew of small improvements.   New Feature: Overhead View Have you ever wanted to look down on Mt Rushmore from directly above the Presidents? What about seeing the exact layout of Stonehenge from above? If you’ve used Photosynth you know that it automatically calculates a “cl.. more »

Small businesses are the genesis of all large companies today. While it’s hard to believe, we’re a good example of this. Microsoft started with two employees – Bill Gates and Paul Allen and grew to more than 90,000 employees today, with 1.1 billion PC users worldwide. Key to this growth, Bill and Paul had a clear vision for how personal comput.. more »

Hello, I’m Olivia Riley Cornejo, and starting today I’ll be blogging about the experiences some of our commercial customers (large and small) are having in their Windows 7 deployments. Hopefully their stories will help answer questions you may be having about migrating to Windows 7 in your own environment and inspire you to try it for yourself. Oh, .. more »

Hello my Name is Nachiket Acharya and today I am going to talk about usefulness of an SDK and use it to create applications for the SDK. Brent Bishop has posted an article on this site for Automating the Creation of an OS Design Project and Modifying an OS Design Programmatically. In this article – we will discuss what the importance of an SDK is.. more »

Three months ago we posted about the open beta for the Asset Inventory Service (AIS) 2.0. To all of you who signed up, we want to say thanks for your help and participation. It was great to see to people interested in the improved user interface, the...(read more).. more »

Every now and again, we like to use this forum to provide commentary and context on happenings in the industry. from Waltham, Mass. and Palo Alto, Calif. is a good example. On the one hand, there’s a . On the other hand, there’s a ). And if there’s such a thing as a third hand, there are So what’s our take? First, the Microsoft and Novell alliance.. more »

Wow, 11,000 attendees, press, analysts and speakers here at TechEd. That’s a testimony to the passion, and excitement that this generates amongst our customers and partners. Day 1 got off to a flying start with Bob Muglia and his inimitable style. For those who did not get a chance to view the keynote you can catch the recording at . Some really co.. more »

Adam Hall over on the has listed out the activities that will come in the upcoming SCSM Integration Pack in the 6.3 release of Opalis later this year. As you can see below we have provided some generic activities that allow you to manipulate any kind of object in the model such as Create Object, Create Relationship, Get Object, Get Relationship, .. more »

In this paper, we propose Partition min-Hash (PmH), a novel hashing scheme for discovering partial duplicate images from a large database. Unlike the standard min-Hash algorithm that assumes a bag of words image representation, our approach utilizes the fact that duplicate regions among images are often localized. By theoretical analysis, .. more »

This paper reports our recent exploration of the layer-by-layer learning strategy for training a multi-layer generative model of patches of speech spectrograms. The top layer of the generative model learns binary codes that can be used for efficient compression of speech and could also be used for scalable speech recognition or rapid speech content .. more »

I had occasion to see my doctor this week.  What for is irrelevant, but somewhat the premise of this discussion. When I approached the registration desk of my physicians practice I was asked, in a loud voice: “Name”?  I respond, “Lesley Jordan...(read more).. more »

Account Activity panel, and choose to end any active session. This feature will help protect users from malicious strangers trying to hijack one’s account, as well as the somewhat common practice of mischievous friends editing one’s profile or making unauthorized communications. The account activity panel shows all of a user’s currently active.. more »

to get Facebook to say “no” to using coal-derived electricity at its new Prineville, Ore. data center. We’ve that Facebook would be using both renewable and non-renewable energy at the center. What’s more, the center is already doing a pretty good job of being environmentally-friendly by using naturally cold air to cool servers, an evaporat.. more »

Jack Fruh had success with a tip for fixing slow SMB file sharing in Snow Leopard, and shared an alternative method: Just wanted to say I tried the tip "DNS/Kerberos Setting workaround for slow SMB browsing." Like another reader, it cut approx 25 seconds off my time. (In my case, the delay is easy to measure repeatedly, as I have an Applescript .. more »

Dave and the guys over at the Home Server Show have just released episode 104. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

This week at IFA 2010 Toshiba announced their new CEVO-Engine for superior TV experiences and the first TV – the 55 ZL1. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

If everything goes to plan then within the next 24-48 hours we are on the move. Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth (August last year actually), we to select a new theme design for the site. We have now (eventually) implemented it, which you can have a sneak peak at Due to the wonders of the world wide bubble while the site is migrating over you .. more »

The Windows Home Server Backup Database-Backup add-in or BDBB as it is also known has had an update. Version 1.0.3.3 includes the following changes: Redesigned user interface, tabs now provide room for new features More documentation within the interface to explain the features of the Add-In, including a warning message that the backup service .. more »

Just because you aren't at PAX Prime this weekend doesn't mean you can't experience at least some of the joys and wonders that the show floor has to offer. For instance, the 10 straight minutes of Portal 2 co-op gameplay that we've dropped after the break, courtesy of GameTrailers -- hearing the "oohs" and "aahs" of the crowd on all sides, you'll .. more »

The "consequences" of Elemental's "disastrous" launch were swift as Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has confirmed layoffs at the company. Shacknews reported yesterday that those let go included developers, designers, and salespeople working on Elemental. Wardell stated in his post on the subject that these are the first layoffs to the company since .. more »