Microsoft commence à parler du Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), ainsi que Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Bien que Microsoft n'ait pas annoncé officiellement un beta ou une date de lancement pour le service pack, selon la rumeur, le SP1 pourrait bien arriver ce mois-ci. Windows Server 2008 R2 inclura des fonctionnalités assez cool pour la virtualisation du bureau de Microsoft, c'est-à-dire Microsoft Dynamic Memory et Microsoft RemoteFX. Windows 7 aura aussi les hotfixes habituels, ainsi qu'un client Remote Desktop mis à jour, un client qui bénéficie du RemoteFX sur Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Plus d'information sur l'annonce officielle de Microsoft.

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hi,

 

I've got a number of Live Templates configured for ActionScript, but often, when I go to Live Templates tab on Settings screen, I don't see any of them. Still, I am able to use them in editor, so it means Idea knows they are there, but for some reason they are not displayed in the Settings. Anybody else having this problem?

 

cheers,

Jan

hi,

 

I've got a number of Live Templates configured for ActionScript, but often, when I go to Live Templates tab on Settings screen, I don't see any of them. Still, I am able to use them in editor, so it means Idea knows they are there, but for some reason they are not displayed in the Settings. Anybody else having this problem?

 

cheers,

Jan

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After leaving the Rumorville gazettes to do their thing for a few months, Microsoft yesterday took the mic and started talking about Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The main additions in SP1 that will interest Windows Server users are two new desktop virtualization features, called Microsoft RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory, while on the Windows 7 side there's the updated Remote Desktop client that's based on RemoteFX. Win7 users will also get all the updates released until SP1 goes RTM, so they won't have to worry about missing a fix for the operating system.

Microsoft hasn't said anything about SP1's release schedule but according to reports, the package is already in a beta state and is planned to be made available this autumn, about a year after Windows 7's debut.

Microsoft has started to talk about Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Despite Microsoft not officially announcing a beta or date of release for the service pack, word is going around that SP1 might be arriving as early as this month. Windows Server 2008 R2 will be getting some rather cool features for Microsoft’s desktop virtualization platform, namely Microsoft Dynamic Memory and Microsoft RemoteFX. Windows 7 will be getting the usual bunch of hotfixes, as well as an updated Remote Desktop client that takes advantage of the newly-introduced RemoteFX on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

More information over at Microsoft’s official announcement.

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Après l'annonce hier des premières informations au sujet du Service Pack 1 de Windows 7 et Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft annonce un changement destiné au mode Windows XP virtuel.

Microsoft commence à parler du Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), ainsi que Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Bien que Microsoft n'ait pas annoncé officiellement un beta ou une date de lancement pour le service pack, selon la rumeur, le SP1 pourrait bien arriver ce mois-ci. Windows Server 2008 R2 inclura des fonctionnalités assez cool pour la virtualisation du bureau de Microsoft, c'est-à-dire Microsoft...

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Podle neoficiálních informací Microsoft uvolní jeÅ¡tÄ› tento mÄ›síc betaverzi prvního opravného balíÄku, tzv. service packu, pro nový operaÄní systém Windows 7 a Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft termín oficiálnÄ› nepotvrdil, ale pÅ™ípravu service packu pÅ™ipouÅ¡tí, píÅ¡e web Ars Technica . Narozdíl od ...

En l’espace de quelques jours, j’ai été confronté à deux bugs à la c** sur ma Frugalware Linux, en version current. Je connais les «Â risques et les joies » d’une distribution en rolling-release, donc c’est assez normal que cela arrive. Mais je dois être comme Cyrille Borne, je dois attirer les bugs

Et les deux sont suite à des mises à jours majeures de paquets. Le premier, le bug 4145 concerne un bug lié au passage à xorg-server 1.7.6 qui tue purement et simplement la composition sous Xorg avec le pilote propriétaire Nvidia. Après avoir rapporté le bug et posté un message sur le forum francophone de la Frugalware, je ne suis pas le seul à être apparemment concerné.

Ce n’est pas trop ennuyeux dans l’absolu, mais  quand on est devenu accroc aux fenêtres molles de Compiz-Fusion...

L’autre bug que j’ai rapporté est cependant plus handicapant, car il empêche purement et simplement d’imprimer quoique ce soit avec mon imprimante HP PhotoSmart C3180. C’est le bug 4148. Devant imprimer un document, j’ai alors essayé de lancer l’outil HP-Toolbox, mais rien ne s’affichait. En lançant l’outil en ligne de commande, j’ai droit à ceci :

fred@frugalware:~$ hp-toolbox &
[1] 32677
fred@frugalware:~$ Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 39, in
from base import status, tui, module
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/status.py", line 40, in
import hpmudext
ImportError: libnetsnmp.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Un fichier manquant ? En rétrogradant le paquet net-snmp, comme par miracle, l’outil HP-Toolbox est redevenu fonctionnel...

C’est quand même étrange qu’un bug aussi gros que celui-ci soit passé inaperçu durant près d’une semaine, car le paquet net-snmp fautif a été mis en ligne le 14 mars...

Au moins, les bugs ont été signalés, on verra le temps qui sera mis pour les faire disparaître

Billet original de FredBezies.Votez pour cet article sur le Planet Libre.

DBASchool - Limited Seats Remain With only 15 total seats, we're now down to only a few remaining for the April class.  This is an in-person class that I'll be teaching that focuses on the practical, immediately usable items you need to know when working with SQL Server.  From security ...(more)

Hi,

 

I am using server side checkout that looks like this

 

Perforce root

//depot/... //team-city-agent/depot/...

 

In perforce I have

//depot/main

//depot/software

//depot/release/X/main

//depot/release/X/software

 

My checkout rules for head are:

 

-:.

+:main=>main

+:software=>software

 

I want to get only main and software and avoid getting everything else under //depot/...

 

checkout rules for release are:

 

-:.

+:release/X/main=>main

+:release/X/software=>software

 

With this setup I got the entire contents of P4 depot on my TC server. Could you please provide and example for P4?

 

I am thinking to try this, to follow P4 syntax:

-:.

+://depot/main/..=>main

+://depot/software/..=>software

 

-:.

+://depot/release/X/main/..=>main

+://depot/release/X/software/..=>software

 

With the size of my depot and TC server running out of disk space it is kind of hard to learn by trying. Thank you.

 

Vadim.

Schedule and backup your files to directories/drives or FTP server....

Microsoft began to talk about Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 today, though the company wasn't yet ready to announce a beta or release timeline for the service pack. Rumors pegged SP1 beta for arrival this month. For Windows Server 2008 R2, the company revealed two new features that directly affect Microsoft's desktop virtualization platform.

Microsoft Dynamic Memory is an enhancement to Hyper-V that will allow users to adjust the memory of a guest virtual machine on demand. IT administrators will thus be able to pool all the memory available on a physical host and dynamically distribute it to virtual machines running on that host as necessary. Based on changes in workload, VMs will be able to receive new memory allocations without a service interruption.

Microsoft RemoteFX, which is based on the IP that Microsoft acquired and continued to develop since acquiring Calista Technologies over two years ago, enables users of virtual desktops to receive a rich, 3-D, multimedia experience while accessing information remotely. It functions independently of any graphics stack and supports any screen content, including Windows Aero, full-motion video, Flash and Silverlight content, and 3D applications. Because it uses virtualized graphics resources, RemoteFX works on a wide array of target devices, which means it can be deployed over both thick and thin client hosts and a wide variety of network configurations.

For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor updates: mostly hotfixes already delivered through Windows Update. SP1 will, however, feature an updated Remote Desktop client that takes advantage of RemoteFX introduced Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Microsoft says it will be giving more detailed information regarding SP1 over the next several months.

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Publication Date: 2010 Mar 16 PMID: 20233390Authors: Guerra-Assuncao, J. A. - Enright, A. J.Journal: BMC BioinformaticsABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: A large effort to discover microRNAs (miRNAs) has been under way. Currently miRBase is their primary repository, providing annotations of primary sequences, precursors and probable genomic loci. In many cases miRNAs are identical or very similar between related (or in some cases more distant) species. However, miRBase focuses on those species for which miRNAs have been directly confirmed. Secondly, specific miRNAs or their loci are sometimes not annotated even in well-covered species. We sought to address this problem by developing a computational system for automated mapping of miRNAs within and across species. Given the sequence of a known miRNA in one species it is relatively straightforward to determine likely loci of that miRNA in other species. Our primary goal is not the discovery of novel miRNAs but the mapping of validated miRNAs in one species to their most likely orthologues in other species. RESULTS: We present MapMi, a computational system for automated miRNA mapping across and within species. This method has a sensitivity of 92.20% and a specificity of 97.73%. Using the latest release (v14) of miRBase, we obtained 10,944 unannotated potential miRNAs when MapMi was applied to all 21 species in Ensembl Metazoa release 2 and 46 species from Ensembl release 55. CONCLUSIONS: The pipeline and an associated web-server for mapping miRNAs are freely available on http://www.ebi.ac.uk/enright-srv/MapMi/ . In addition precomputed miRNA mappings of miRBase miRNAs across a large number of species are provided.post to: CiteULike

McKesson is a global health care leader that has 26 operating companies. The centrial IT group had the vision to automate "the last mile" of IT planning, the budget approval process. We think of it as the budget approval dance, and when containing costs, it's a ritual that can leave scars. This company has evolved to the point of improving the cost of budgeting, and making it faster and smarter by understanding the assets, services, and service delivery of IT.

Budgeting can be painful because it can be in slow-motion. Contrast this with the real-time controls of such as VMware V-Motion and Amazon's web service console and we see a great linkup for driving process change through budgeting. And driving budgeting by cloud and virtualization. We took a look at McKesson's journey and the service catalog functions of NewScale, an IT services catalog company.

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NewScale has customers like McKesson and Charles Schwab and competitors like HP, IBM, Tivoli. The company has been growing its customer base and helping stable-state enterprises to leverage Service Management. And that leads directly into cloud procurement.

We tracked the use case at McKesson, where the company landed at the service desk in the cloud as a means to the end in their journey to build a low-impact budget process.

We see a lot of benefit in this approach, where if successful, it would mean that the advantages to go with commodity pre-approved services dramatically improves the timing and effort of procurement. This is a lever that gives Finance a significant hand in the IT spend. Since cloud and virtualization offerings can be spun-up with service call, the cloud is well positioned to be there as budgeting and approval processes are automated.

In phase one, the company reported significant progress in moving processes towards the service catalog.

One click vs. Fill Out the Form

In the end, the move towards enterprise standards may be won over simplicity. Is it less clicks to provision. This means connecting the dots between processes, systems, software, teams, and policy.

To EC2, or to EC2 through Official Channels: That is the Question

IT services management comes into the picture and could make a difference in how the business and technical contributors of organizations are rewarded for moving to a standard platform.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library is tool set that has been given to IT managers to try to wrap standard language around IT service management. It gives the enterprise a common way to manage processes for IT and track the changes involved in building and operating systems.

Services platforms like Amazon and Salesforce can be considered IT disinter-mediation. We all know a IT leader out there somewhere who is funding their project by credit card out in the cloud. IT, of course, knows this also (especially since they are likely watching your network traffic). One part of the service management offering is making it even easier than Amazon. Carrot, vs. stick.

Service catalog management has the promise when it wraps things like Amazon's EC2, or VMwares offerings, gives the enterprise a way to get the same service from the web. And, with budget approval and IT approval baked in, the carrot is there.

All of IT moves towards transparency and IT processes as being measured as processes. In the ITIL community, there is discussion of the next layer of the library moving towards service delivery in the move towards ITIL Version 3. It's easy to see that "provision server" becomes fully automated. Soon, all the IT functions below it become invisible. We see this as a future cloud inflection point, where instead of there "cloud services", we are all in one.

Zen Mashup

What has been your experience in mashing ITIL, ITIL Service Delivery in your environment? Do your IT services flow like water?

Discuss

CWmike writes "Microsoft has announced service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users' hands. A company spokesman said Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will primarily contain 'minor updates,' including patches and hotfixes that will have been delivered earlier via the Windows Update service, rather than new features. One of the latter: an updated Remote Desktop client designed to work with RemoteFX, the new remote-access platform set to debut in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be upgraded to SP1, Microsoft said, presumably at the same time as Windows 7 since the two operating systems share a single code base. Besides RmoteFX — which Microsoft explained Wednesday in an entry on the Windows virtualization team's blog — Server 2008 R2 will also include a feature dubbed 'Dynamic Memory,' which lets IT staff adjust guest virtual machines' memory on the fly. Microsoft did not spell out a timetable for the service packs, saying only that it would provide more information as release milestones approach."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

CWmike writes "Microsoft has announced service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users' hands. A company spokesman said Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will primarily contain 'minor updates,' including patches and hotfixes that will have been delivered earlier via the Windows Update service, rather than new features. One of the latter: an updated Remote Desktop client designed to work with RemoteFX, the new remote-access platform set to debut in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be upgraded to SP1, Microsoft said, presumably at the same time as Windows 7 since the two operating systems share a single code base. Besides RmoteFX — which Microsoft explained Wednesday in an entry on the Windows virtualization team's blog — Server 2008 R2 will also include a feature dubbed 'Dynamic Memory,' which lets IT staff adjust guest virtual machines' memory on the fly. Microsoft did not spell out a timetable for the service packs, saying only that it would provide more information as release milestones approach."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

How do I move the tools/deployment/upload icon to the main toolbar?

 

I tried File -> Settings -> Menus and Toolbars but couldn't move it from there.

 

It would be very convenient to have this on the toolbar so I can have "1 click" server upload.

 

Many thanks!

Recon Suite 7.2

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The Imaging SuiteÂ’s modular approach to imaging makes building multiple images easy by building configurations from a library of custom packages. Utilizing the same set of operating system and application packages to create multiple configurations ensures that each configuration is made up of identical components.

Most imaging utilities are based on a monolithic approach in which administrators build one base image that includes every element for every machine. The base image is then copied and adjusted to accommodate each configuration required by the network. This approach results in many large, monolithic images that require both storage and maintenance.

The Imaging SuiteÂ’s package-based approach to imaging reduces storage requirements, tracks changes, ensures consistency across the organization, and eliminates post-imaging activities.

Key Features:

• Package-Based Imaging
• Create Custom OS Packages from Installer Disk
• Universal Binary for Mac OS X
• Organize Packages into Configurations
• Simple Drag-and-Drop Interface
• Smart Configurations
• Package Swapping Based on the Processor
• Deploy Adobe CS3 and CS4 Natively
• Set Computer Name
• Fix ByHost files
• Set Computer Specific Network Settings
• Run Scripts
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• Automated Directory Binding for Active Directory, Open Directory, Likewise, ADmitMac, and Centrify
• Set Open Firmware/EFI Password
• Compile Configurations for Block Copy Imaging
• Automate Drive Partitioning
• Image Multiple Partitions using Configurations
• Automated Deployment of Boot Camp Images
• NetBoot Integration
• Multicast Imaging Options (Resource Kit)
• Automated Generation of Restore Partition
• Key Differentiators:
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  • Bind to Active Directory, Open Directory, Likewise, ADmitMac and Centrify
  • Automated Drive Partitioning
  • Automated Deployment of Boot Camp Images
  
  WHAT'S NEWVersion 7.2:
  • There is a new Setup Assistant on the first launch of the JSS after a clean install.
  • There is a new LDAP Server Assistant that allows for setting up new LDAP Server integration.
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    Although it is possible to install the JAMF Software Server (JSS) on any platform that supports Tomcat and MySQL, the JSS Setup Utility only supports Mac OS X Server 10.4 or 10.5.

    Imaging:
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By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

Literally every day at Betanews, we get at least one security vendor "alert" of some type, warning us to be on the lookout for the latest malware. The message is always the same: Advise users to stay vigilant, to keep patching, to upgrade their antivirus to the latest editions. But the profiles of the malware typically look the same, too -- stuff you might click on by accident, links pretending to be from your "best friend" in an e-mail message, ads for products that look too good to be true.

For many of us, the situation is getting to be like the US' terror alert level, which has remained at "Yellow" since the fall of 2007. We starting to forget what "elevated" vigilance means. And maybe that's a problem, because lack of attention to advice about real threats could become as dangerous as lack of attention to any one of those miracle weight-loss links.

This isn't an ad, it's my opinion: Over the years, I've trusted the engineers at Sophos Labs to present down-to-earth analyses of possible security scares. This morning, I forwarded two recent reports from other well-known security vendors to Sophos' Chester Wisniewski, reports about malware that didn't fit the ordinary profile we tend to see from day to day.

The first report comes from ALWIL Software, publishers of Avast anti-virus, and it's been heavily circulated since it was first issued last February. It speaks of the horrors of receiving unsolicited malware by way of JavaScript elements embedded in the ads that appear on Web sites -- the sources of which, sometimes, innocent publishers have no control over.

"The malware usually spreads through Web infection placed on innocent, badly secured Web sites," reads last month's initial warning from the Czech Republic-based Avast's Jiri Sejtko. "The ad infiltration method is growing in popularity alongside with the Web site infections. Now we are facing probably the biggest ad poisoning ever made -- all important ad services are affected. It means that users might get infected just by reading their favorite newspaper or by doing search on famous Web indexers. User interaction is not needed in this attack -- infection begins just after poisoned ad is loaded by the browser -- it is not a type of social engineering."

A chart from the ALWIL security research team showing what it claims to be the number of detected instances of malware sent by advertising platforms over a six-day period.

ALWIL's research found the Fox Audience Network as among the ad platforms spreading the alleged infection, which the firm dubbed "JS:Prontexi." On Tuesday, a public relations effort by the firm dubbed the malware a "widespread campaign," leading to blanket coverage such as this story in Media Post on Tuesday, this story in the Danish BizReport earlier today, and this blog post on Photoxels, which contains the original press release in its entirety.

That press release stated as many as one in two online ads served worldwide was in danger of being infected by the malware the ALWIL team discovered. "JS:Prontexi highlights the lack of care shown by advertising services providers to actively screen the content they are distributing," Sejtko is quoted as saying.

Can this problem truly be this bad -- a malware component with a 50% worldwide Web reach?

"Infections on ad services are certainly of heightened concern," Sophos' Chet Wisniewski told Betanews earlier today, "yet this is almost a month old, and the miscreants who caused this incident have since moved on. To claim it as the biggest ad server compromise ever seems to me to be a bit of hyperbole." The moral of the story, according to the ALWIL press release: Pay attention to situations where you may think antivirus software like Avast is returning false positives...they may not be false. Again quoting Sejtko, "Consumers shouldn't immediately accuse their antivirus program of a false positive when a familiar site gets blocked. There can be a real danger."

The other "red alert" this week comes from McAfee Labs, as part of its new program of publishing "Consumer Threat Alerts." One of the first such alerts yesterday concerns a worldwide "Facebook password reset scam." Here, users worldwide are sent an ordinary e-mail -- no graphics, no text formatting, just an e-mail with an attachment: "Dear user of facebook [sic], Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document. Thanks, Your Facebook."

As McAfee's threat alert from yesterday reads, "This threat is potentially very dangerous considering that there are over 400 million Facebook users who could fall for this scam. This is also the sixth most prevalent piece of malware targeting consumers in the last 24 hours, as tracked by McAfee Labs." Since this is also the type of phishing scam that we see here at Betanews every single day (sometimes every few hours), certainly this can't be the kind of malware delivery mechanism that people fall for, can it? Haven't people smelled this kind of scam long enough to spot it at a distance?

Surprise. As Wisniewski told us, this one deserves the red flag and the blaring klaxons.

"We are seeing very high volumes of this attack. Sophos detects the attachments as TROJ/Invo-Zip, which we talked about being involved in a similar MySpace attack this January. It then proceeds to infect you with Mal/FakeAV-BW (Fake Anti-virus). The same malware is also making the rounds as a fake delivery notification from DHL. The only thing unique is the extremely high volumes and the large user base that Facebook has that could be convinced to run the malware."

So to recap: A completely unsophisticated e-mail attachment, of the garden variety we've seen for the last 15 year, is seen by Sophos as being more dangerous and widespread than an embedded JavaScript that one security researcher says has the potential of appearing in half the world's online ads. The only way to ever find out the truth, is to ask the right questions of the right people.

Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010

SQL Server l’arme anti-crise (Un supplément publié par la rédaction de IT-Media) SQL Server est à la fois une plateforme de gestion et d’analyse de donn&eacut...

Microsoft livre quelques informations sur le premier Service Pack de Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2. Les seules nouvelles fonctionnalités sont du côté de la virtualisation.

In what is surely news that will blow your mind because of its unexpectedness, Microsoft has announced the upcoming releases of service pack 1 for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The company had nothing to say, yet, about release schedules or possible test releases.

Thanks everyone for your questions to my previous post on this subject. Now the results:

Everyone should install the Maemo Extras application catalog. Just unleash your phone by installing this repository.

After you are done installing this we go to the questions:

• How is XMPP working out?
  Good, so go doing your Facebooking or Jabbering everywhere. not to speak you Google Taking
• The “Unlocks with ’sudo gainroot’” needs a footnote:
  * you need to enable the Maemo Extras application catalog (see above) and install “rootsh”
  * or, alternatively (and less conveniently), you need to enable R&D mode with the flasher command-line tool on a PC, with the N900 connected over USB
• Does the browser (fennec iirc?) include support for playing back Ogg video and audio?
  Ogg support can be added as an additional download. You do have the real Firefox now, or so claims Nokia.
• Telepathy supports skype? Haven’t heard of this, but it would be _really_ cool!
  As written in my post “you have skype, but no skype app which is a plus.” Yes telepathy handles skype as it handles any other protocol. MSN call support is coming soon as well.
• I’d really like to know how easy is to exploit all the cool features of N900 in a self made program (with Maemo SDK or maybe QT 4.6). I mean, the N900 has a built in camera, AGPS, accelerometer, FM-transmitter and so on... is it possibile to write a custom program that uses one or more of these things? For example (it is really just a weird example) if I want to take a photo with the camera each time the phone is “shaked”, I could do it? If I want to save my GPS coordinates every 30 minutes in a text file, I could do it?
  I guess I won’t be answering that question in this life time… If (and only if) I ever try programming anything for maemo it will be in Python. I guess you can do pretty neat things with QT + other libs as this application shows. A detailed example of that app here (De-Spotify related).
• Test a/v calling on gtalk,jabber using telepathy works or not?
  tried once and didn’t work. It could have been me or my other peer either being retarded or just using Linux with the wrong sound config (experienced it before and it had nothing to do with i.e. skype being wrong)
• I have seen many people talking about unexpected errors, slow performance, etc. What´s your overall experience?
  I experience it as the easiest piece of tech I have ever had. It really is fast and gives me no headaches.
• Can you install .deb packages that are valid for a standard PC?
  I guess I should elaborate in this question but I won’t. A deb package made in your PC for the N900 architecture (armel) should work. But a standard x86 deb will not.
• Can you install pidgin?
  Why on earth would I want to do that? Telepathy is totally integrated in my contact list and relevant applications… Pidgin in this context would be like having a skype application: Just overhead! Think of this as a new approach at the way you communicate, not a reproduction of an ineffective way of doing things.
• I assume you mention OpenSSH from a client perspective. Can the N900 run the server side? (not sure that makes sense, but I am curious)
  It can and it rocks.
• How many apps you feel it can run in parallel before it feels bloated?
  I have my screen full of phone related apps, browser windows, multimedia stuff and random apps (terminal, chess, camera) and it still does not feel bloated at all. I really mean it. I never get irritated by this phone!
• For how much you bought it and from where i am in Egypt and i want to buy one?
  I did not buy it. I am just borrowing it (sort of) from a friend @ Nokia.
• Its usefulness ...
  It helps me being more effective when I am on the move and at the office. So it really is useful. Not to speak of its awesomeness when enjoying my private time (i.e. camera & video features)
• I’ve ordered one that wont arrive for another month =( A few questions related to barcodes. Can you take a picture of a barcode show it full screen and have scanners scan it?
  I read somewhere that you should be able to do so. Google it mate. I don’t need that and really don’t have time to test that, sorry.
• Is there a barcode scanner tool? Bonus for price comparison tools. Sometimes I’ll be browsing used game stores and see a game fairly cheap and wonder whether I can get it cheaper elsewhere.
  Read  questions #14
• If it isn’t too much trouble, I would like to know how well emacs works on the device, I notice it doesn’t have a meta key.
  Have given emacs way too many chances in other devices to make my life harder in this one. I am really not the right person to ask as I do not feel emacs works at all anywhere (and the same goes for vi/vim so do not hate the player, hate the game!
• Web browsing while playing music (recorded or streaming); heard complaints that playback may become choppy.
  Works like a charm even under crappy wi-fi conditions.
• Listening to music over BT stereo headphones and answering calls. Voice commands over BT?
  Lost my BT headset for a while ago and I really am not interested in buying a new one. If someone has experience on this please answer in the comments.
• Video calling. I know it’s not there yet in the integrated skype. But what about Fring or Gtalk or Ytalk?
  Tried skype and it worked like a charm. Do not use any of the others, sorry.
• Voice announcements of incoming messages while listening to music over BT?
  No idea. Read #18
• Smoothness of video playback, whether recorded or streaming? (Again, heard complaints of choppiness.)
  I recorded the audio and video at a concert last weekend and it really worked well. It might just be me and my lack of interest in video/audio quality in general.
• Does it have what it takes to play h264 videos in mkv containers?
  How can i test that?
• Can you try different resolutions?
  Why should I ever wish that? Drop me the command and I will run them
• How is the sound quality on mp3, ogg and flac files?
  Great. Nokia ere is king among mobile producers. Nothing can even compare to it, specialy when playing from the speakers. When using headphones it just rocks!
• How is the performance like for traditional desktop apps(amarok, akregator, openoffice.org)?
  I dreamed of installing the debian extra for maemo but never got far with it. Now I really do not feel like blowing up my preciously nice working N900.
• How is the performance of the ‘big’ desktop environments (xfce, gnome, kde)
  Hope I never have the time to go through that operation so I won’t have an answer.
• I’d like to see tested is how well this device works as a phone while all the other crazy hacks are going on.
  Works like a charm!
• Test call quality, battery life, address book functionality, etc.
  Cal quality is good. Battery life could be better (will last one day and two at the most)  and Address Book functionality is very nice specially if you think about how well integrated everything is. I have had several smartphones over the years and never seen anything like this.
• I am curious how well the calendar works, and more importantly, how well it synchronizes with Google Calendar.
  I’ve heard it works like a charm although I do not use Gcalender so I couldn’t tell.
• Does it run X11?
  I want to know but I don’t. It might do as I can connect to external machines with ssh -X and get apps running on the N900 (such as eclipse)
• In other words, is it pie-in-the-sky to expect to use it as a full-blown Linux box?
  It ain’t a box, it’s a pone with debian. Isn’t that enough for you? It certainly works for me!

Thanks for reading!

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows

There's been talk floating around for quite some time about the coming of Windows 7 SP1. Today, we've got some details out of Redmond -- but if you were waiting for something exciting, you should probably check out Erez's post about watching Vimeo videos in ASCII format.

The short version: Windows 7 SP1 will pretty much just be a rollup of updates that have been previously released. Yay.

The slightly longer version: there will be other 'minor' updates, including support for a kicked-up remote desktop client (using RemoteFX) and Dynamic Memory support. Both of those are Windows Server technologies, so they're not of much interest to anyone running Windows 7 at home.

SP1 does historically act as a 'green light' to system administrators that it's OK to upgrade to the new OS, but according to Brandon LeBlanc that hasn't been the case this time around. In his words, "Many organizations are already in the process of deploying and are receiving benefits from their Windows 7 deployment."

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to watch more blocky videos...

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In what is surely news that will blow your mind because of its unexpectedness, Microsoft has announced the upcoming releases of service pack 1 for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The company had nothing to say, yet, about release schedules or possible test releases.