SUSAN SAULNY
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NYT
Heavier Americans are lobbying legislators and trying to move public opinion to recognize their point of view: that thin does not necessarily equal fit, and that people can be healthy at any size.
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Windows 7 is here, there, and everywhere. And so for the weekend, we pick seven fine posts from MVP blogs where they share tips, tricks, and how-tos for Windows 7. Moving To Windows 7? Why should I move to Windows 7? Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows 7 Super Fast How to Diagnose Memory Problems on Windows 7 9 Touch Gestures in Windows 7 for ...
CARL HULSE
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NYT
Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan that Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NYT
A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck the town of Adazai Sunday, killing the mayor and at least eight others, police said.
People seem determined to stick a USB plug on just about everything, so why not stick a 2GB memory chip in the handle of a comb and make it a thumb drive? It helps you look good and saves your precious data at the same time. We shouldn’t be asking “why”, we should be asking, “why not?”
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Many of you new SQL Server DBAs may be wondering what are the things to lookout for to effectively maintain a production SQL Server database. Paul Randal has written an excellent article on this very topic, and it covers the following points: Managing data and transaction log files Eliminating index fragmentation Ensuring accurate, up-to-date ...
Cyrus Harvesf
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TechNet Blogs
The November 2009 CTP of the Access Control Service brought many new changes. As you learn about these changes, you'll undoubtedly run into some hurdles. One likely hurdle is deciphering the error messages you get from the token and management services. Here's a TokenServiceException class that converts a WebException into something that's a bit ...
 
Darren Murph
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Engadget
We've got a sneaking suspicion that the DS Lite will be old ancient news by the time Easy Piano hit the market, but those who've learned to be content in life (and have somehow managed to resist the urge to snap up a DSi in place of their older handheld), have probably been hunting for this date. Valcon Games has just announced that its piano- ...
Somewhat hidden within Forefront Identity Manager 2010, there is a very useful feature for action workflows called "Run on Policy Update". Here are the situations where you may find this feature useful: 1. You are creating a new Management Policy Rule (MPR), such as one to provision all users an AD account, and you want one or more of the action ...
Laura June
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Engadget
Bose unleashed its giant iPod dock, the SoundDock 10, back in August -- all 18 pounds of it. Well, iLounge has gotten their hands on one of these $600 beasts, and they've given it a nice once over. The SoundDock 10 has a nice solid build, and they grade the overall sound quality as decent... which probably isn't comforting to hear, considering ...
Darren Murph
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Engadget
Just weeks after Palm's Pre sunk to CAD $149.95 on Bell , the outfit's first-ever webOS phone has now stooped to just CAD $99.95. That still requires a 3-year contract, of course, but man -- a single bill for a smartphone like the Pre? Anyone tossing out guesses on how long it takes Sprint to follow suit (and embarrass the Pixi )? [Thanks, David]
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Www.engadgetmobile.com
Bell has six-month exclusivity on the Pre?
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It's been gathered, extrapolated, or otherwise assumed pretty much from day one that Sprint's period of exclusivity on the Pre was roughly six months (we say "roughly" because Dan Hesse himself has explicitly said it's not six), and it looks like things are working just about the same up north. In the case of Bell, MobileSyrup is reporting that ...
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Get ready Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington Tauranga and Auckland! Microsoft Unplugged is coming to you for the last time for 2009 just before the christmas holiday season. During this tour, Nathan Mercer from Microsoft will be covering Deployment and migration from Windows XP to Windows 7. Also, Nathan will be providing a Microsoft ...
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Blog.seattlepi.com
Clippings from Craig Mundie's stop at UW
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Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, finished up his 2009 Microsoft College Tour at the University of Washington on Thursday. He spoke to a packed audience at Kane Hall Room 120 and demoed a few prototype technologies Microsoft Research is working on.
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Darren Murph
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Engadget
Enjoy your Apple TV? Not so fond of your data picking up and vanishing whenever it darn well pleases? Then you'll probably want to force your Apple TV to update to 3.0.1... assuming you've already upgraded it to 3.0 , of course. According to the engineers in Cupertino, this update prevents content "from temporarily disappearing until re-synced," ...
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Ars Technica
Week in Apple: Magic Mouse, ra1n & sn0w, iPhone chicanery
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We gave you the lowdown on how well Apple's new Magic Mouse works, told you about a Dutch teen that used port scanning to find vulnerable jailbroken iPhones, showed how less-than-honest iPhone developers claim to have developed others' apps, and how Apple may or may not be dropping support for Atom processors. If you missed any of that, here's a ...
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While competition of Microsoft is working on new features in their operating systems - like 1000 new APIs in iPhone OS or FREE turn-by-turn navigation in Android - in Microsoft it's all about marketing, marketing and more marketing.
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Vancouver BC, November 7, 2009 – Visitors hoping to purchase Olympic and Paralympic tickets today at www.vancouver2010.com were not able to access the site as previously planned and as a result, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) has made the decision to postpone the start of Phase 3 ...
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Tales of Star Trek piracy and sexy slumber party pics topped the week's tech and science stories. Here's what was hot over the past seven days. Two high school student athletes got in hot water after pictures from a slumber party posted on MySpace—with privacy controls, no less—ended up on the principal's desk. After being barred ...
This week we take a look at just how much content and choice is missing from the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 , and the news is not good for fans of the PC as a gaming platform. We also take a look at how to score some cheap consoles this weekend, why you should be playing Torchlight , and what one Marine thinks about the controversial content ...
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