We first got a glimpse and preview of floating 3D user account picture which can swing or rotate sideway in Windows “Longhorn” Server build 4xxx (now officially named Windows Server 2008). The feature allows the static user photo on top of the Start Menu to become a 3D rotating image as demonstrated in the in Windows Server 2008 build 4xxx instead of simple fading effect […]
Tired of changing your laptop IP address while moving from office to home or when traveling around? Or even more frequent when you are setting up in the lab that required to change the laptop network configuration. Here is a simple solution for you. You can pre-configure 6 different sets of IP address, DNS server, domain, workgroup and etc and apply it to your laptop […]
TVAnts users who frequently watch television channels online know that the viewing experience may not be always smooth. TVAnts a P2PTV application which utilizes P2P to transmit streaming TV signal may have slow transfer rate sometimes. For this reason, in TVAnts, at Channels tab and Progress Details, viewers can actually monitor the streaming quality of the channel video by monitoring the Buffer progress bar.
First we have Bill Gates leaked edition of Windows Vista, then Microsoft released MSDN version of Vista setup files, and by end of January we also have official RTM and retail release of Windows Vista DVD image. Not to mention there are still OEM edition, upgrade version and web download version of Vista, plus ‘hacker’ or ‘amateur’ created version such as those fit into one […]
When you try to install Windows PowerShell 1.0 in Windows Vista which has EFS (Encrypting File System) disabled or turned off, you may encounter an error message prompted in “Windows Update Standalone Installer” dialog box: Installer encountered an error: 0x8007177f . This machine is disabled for file encryption.
Windows XP has reserved 10% of total hard disk capacity for the Recycle Bin by default. Ten percent might be considered very huge if based on today’s huge hard disks. For instance, on a 100GB hard disk, 10% works out to be 10GB. A total of 10GB reserved space for Recycle Bin might be too huge.
Windows PowerShell 1.0, which will be included as part of Windows Server 2008, is a new task-based command-line shell and scripting language to help system administrator, power users or IT professionals to manage, control and automate system administration of Windows operating system and its applications so that the process is done effectively and productively. Windows PowerShell features a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 […]
The latest advanced operating system from Microsoft, Windows Vista, not only feature a very much beautified graphical user interface and improved security, there are also plenty of under-the-hood enhancements and new utilities. Here’s a list of new executables that has been added to Windows Vista that you may find useful. Of course, the list may not be comprehensive, and the executables can be functions, programs, […]
For Unix-like or Linux system users, symbolic link is a common feature in use almost daily. Symbolic link (aka soft link) or symlink as it often shortened to, is a special type of file or file-system object that serves as a reference or points to another file, UNC or directory, known as target. In Windows Vista, symlinks feature has been added to NTFS filesystem and […]
Here’s a YouTube video showing off a new Apple TV plug-in called “A Series of Tubes.” The plug-in allows you to browse YouTube videos on your Apple TV. Sure, the Flash encoded YouTube videos look like crap on a HDTV. YouTube doesn’t even look good when stretched out to its default 480 x 360, let alone 640 x 480 or HD. But YouTube does have […]
A hacker’s main objective is to compromise the targeted computer, network, or application. The hacker starts off with little information and ends up with a detailed map into the system. There are five steps which hackers follow to hack into a system:
In conjunction with eMule 5th anniversary, eMule version 0.28a has been released. One of the most important feature in 0.48a release is improvement of program compatibility in Windows Vista. Prior to version 0.48a, eMule 0.47c or before has various glitches and problems when run in Vista, which has new security protection, and requires various workarounds to solve the issues. eMule 0.48a fixes some of these […]
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