Archive for February, 2008

VMWare Patches - Do they need a patch Tuesday?

Virtualization.info posted an article, ‘Patch Tuesday for VMWare’ on the analysis they did on VMWare patch release data. Obviously the hosted OS’s aren’t the only things which need to be patched. Here part of the analysis the authers released:
“ESX 3.0.1: 68! Sixty-Eight patches in the course of about a year. Of course they were released in about [...]

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Learn how to build a 3D Game, Free, using Free Tools

If you have ever tossed around the idea of building your own computer game, you likely didn’t know where to begin. Dan Waters, Microsoft Developer Evangelist has now changed all that.
Dan has created a series of free tutorials and sample source code so anyone can learn how to build their own 3D games from scratch. The tutorials include text and [...]

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Top 10 Under Reported Stories of 2007

InfoWorld - complete list of 2007 underreported stories:1.  Java is becoming the new Cobol2.  Sun Microsystems is back in the game3.  Hackers take aim at Mac OS X4.  There are some threats you can worry less about5.  Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits6.  Open source’s new commercial strategy7.  End-to-end Ethernet finally [...]

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Windows Server 2008 RTM

February 4, Microsoft has announced they have Released Windows Server 2008 to Manufacturing. The features of Windows Server 2008 have not changed since RC1 was released but has been stablized for a prodcution environment. This does not mean that Windows Server 2008 is yet avaialable for purchase or upgrade. This means that the code and testing [...]

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Windows Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing

February 4, Microsoft has released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Manufacturing. This does not mean that the Service Pack is available to download and install just yet. This means that the code is complete and has been released to be slip-streamed into new media kits and to start the process of making it available to download [...]

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New SharePoint Deployment Essentials Guide

The ‘SharePoint Products and Technologies Teams Blog’ announced the availability of the new SharePoint Deployment Essentials Guide. This guide provides the “cliff notes” to SharePoint Deployment.
Outlin of the Guide:

Differences between WSS 3.0, SharePoint Server Standard and SharePoint Server Enterprise editions
Bulletted Sample SharePoint Server Deployment Plan
Checklists for IA, Taxonomy, Training, PM and Ops including sample SLAs and [...]

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