1. Top 40 must-have Blu-ray Discs  permalink

Top 40 must-have Blu-ray Discs
David Carnoy / Crave

Check out CNET's roundup of must-have Blu-rays to show off your home theater. We'll be updating our picks as new discs come out. Originally posted at Fully Equipped

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2. Installing Windows in VirtualBox  permalink

Installing Windows in VirtualBox
Nocturn.vsbnet.be

I had to install Windows for someone who needed Office (for a specific thing). So I installed VirtualBox on his Karmic PC and created a VM. When the Hard Disk dialog came up, I choose 3 GB thinking it's only Windows + Office without data... Boy was I wrong.

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November 23rd, 2009 “Velocity” agora é Windows Server AppFabric Caching   —  Olá pessoal. Passado o PDC 09 temos uma série de novidades por ai. Como agora as informações são públicas, volto a falar sobre “Velocity”, ou melhor, sobre o Windows Server AppFabric Caching . Bom, primeiramente o mais importante. O Windows Server AppFabric Caching é exatamente o mesmo produto que o “Velocity” CTP 3 (ou 4 para ...

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November 23rd, 2009 Opera 10.10 with Unite and Turbo now available   —  Filed under: Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Freeware , Browsers , Windows x64 Opera have released version 10 of their browser, now with Opera Unite and Opera Turbo included. Opera Unite gives your web browser the ability to deliver content as well as consume it. The standard download includes a number of Unite applications, with more available ...

3. Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads  permalink

Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget

Now look, we're not saying we know for sure that Apple thinks Verizon's latest round of merciless attack ads on its device and US carrier are worth responding to, but these latest iPhone spots would certainly suggest it. A new campaign launching tonight focuses on the iPhone's ability to carry voice and data simultaneously on AT&T's network, ...

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Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads Apple’s Black Friday Tease   —  Good golly gosh but aren’t Macs expensive? Apple unashamedly caters to the sub-$1,000 computer market and doesn’t compromise on price. So, when our credit card statements arrive, we reassure our guilt-ridden selves that it’s the price we must pay for superior quality. We are, frankly,  discerning, demanding, debonair suckers buyers.

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Apple Launching New iPhone Ads Tonight   —  Apple is launching two new iPhone ads on TV tonight. The ads are intended to tout the iPhone’s ability to hold a simultaneous voice and data connection at the same time.

4. You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands  permalink

You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands
Blogs.msdn.com

I was just read blog entry which complained about having to have administrative access to execute PowerShell commands against a remote server. This is not the case.

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Running scripts on a remote machine   —  This time I had a small problem in running a script (windows script) on a remote system.I had around 200 systems on which i had to run this script. So the developer inside me prompted me to automate it :). After a bit of research, I found this nice tool called Psexec. PsExec is a sysInternals tool. It comes along with PsTools a bunch of some ...

5. Microsoft responds to Bing boycott over Chinese search results  permalink

Microsoft responds to Bing boycott over Chinese search results
Blog.seattlepi.com

Microsoft, responding to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's call for boycotting Bing, says its search engine contains a bug that makes its image search return pro-Communist results when performed in Simplified Chinese.

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Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact   —  Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.

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Microsoft responds to Bing boycott over Chinese search results Microsoft Wishing to Pay Publishers to Block Googlebot?   —  Financial Times reports that Microsoft has had discussions with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media company “over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to ’de-index’ its news websites from Google”. Talks are at an “early stage”, an unnamed sourced told the Financial Times, however, &# ...

6. Stepping Over the Lines: They Bleed For Us  permalink

Mvn.com

And so the band of eight were herded into downtown, for a shot in front of a double-decker London bus. They collectively looked a bit sheepish and slouching, and you would too, given those suits someone decreed they should be wearing. Didn’t they use to distribute suits like this to guys on their way out of prison, along with five quid in ...

7. How do I move a table from one schema to another in SQL Server?  permalink

Paula DiTallo 2007-2009 All Rights Reserved / Geekswithblogs.net

This should work for SQL Server 2005/2008-- ALTER SCHEMA  SchemaNameForTarget TRANSFER SchemaNameOfSource.MyTableName example: ALTER SCHEMA RiskEvaluation TRANSFER dbo.ConvertibleDebenture

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How do I move a table from one schema to another in SQL Server? Learn SQL Server   —  In which Phil is asked to write a nice simple quick-start guide about aggregation, pivoting and un-pivoting... Read more...

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How do I move a table from one schema to another in SQL Server? Watch SQL Server Modeling videos from PDC09   —  PDC09 Keynotes and Session videos are available online now. Here are links to videos for data modeling related sessions: Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer Coming in VS 2010 Evolving ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Beyond ADO.NET Data Services: What’s new with the ...

8. Silverlight4 Beta Availability for Developers  permalink

Silverlight4 Beta Availability for Developers
Dpeuswr / MSDN

Silverlight 4 Beta Information Earlier this week at PDC09 in Los Angeles we unveiled a Beta version Silverlight 4. This latest version delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft’s world-class tools for designers and developers — Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression ...

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Silverlight4 Beta Availability for Developers Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9   —  Developers got a sneak peak at Internet Explorer 9 at Professional Developers Conference (PDC09) . Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, shared an early look at some of the work under way on Internet Explorer 9, highlighting advancements in performance and interoperable standards, as well as advancements such as ...

Dave Campbell / Geekswithblogs.net
Silverlight Cream for -- #741   —  In this Issue: Jeremy Likness , Andrej Tozon , Lee , Adam Kinney , Karl Shifflett , Andy Beaulieu , and Rob Houweling . From SilverlightCream.com : Revisiting Lorem Ipsum in Silverlight 4 with RichTextArea and Printing Jeremy Likness revisits some previous work on inline hyperlinks now in Silverlight 4B where the task becomes much simpler. He ...

9. AppendTo Aims To Commercialize jQuery Javascript Library  permalink

AppendTo Aims To Commercialize jQuery Javascript Library
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch

jQuery is a Javascript library that is used in a large number of web applications and is popular amongst web application developers. It was launched in 2006 by John Resig , and immediately gained a large following due to its lightweight nature and design philosophy. jQuery allows developers to build Javascript web applications easily by ...

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AppendTo Aims To Commercialize jQuery Javascript Library John Resig   —  John Resig is the creator and lead developer of the jQuery Javascript library, and a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation. He is the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques.

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AppendTo Aims To Commercialize jQuery Javascript Library Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts   —  In previous posts, I’ve shown different ways to build a client-side class browser, using the ASP.NET Ajax Libary and jQuery. In this post, I’ll focus on a few lines of code from the latest version of that sample. Those few lines of code enable my custom script to benefit from the script loader’s features such as lazy and parallel loading ...

10. Yankees Prospect Profile #28: Romulo Sanchez, RHP  permalink

Yankees Prospect Profile #28: Romulo Sanchez, RHP
Mvn.com

Background: Romulo Sanchez was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Venezuela by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2002, and he debuted in the Dominican Summer League that year as an 18-year-old. When Sanchez was released by the Dodgers before the 2004 season, the Pittsburgh Pirates picked him up. Being a pitcher in the Pirates system is always a ...

11. Lunch time reading  permalink

Mvn.com

Volkswagen's been chatting with the IZOD IndyCar Series on possibly joining the open-wheel league as an engine manufacturer, but it's apparently keeping its options open.

12. Live Microphone: Vinny Cerrato  permalink

Live Microphone: Vinny Cerrato
Dcprosportsreport.com

“And I think what happens–and kind of what [Clayton] talked about, and what happened to us the previous year–starting the second half you see it because guys start to get hurt.”

13. Video: Roku Launches Channel Store with Facebook Photos, Pandora and More  permalink

Newteevee.com

Roku vice president of marketing Chuck Seiber only gave us a teeny-tiny sneak-peek at the new Roku Channel Store at NewTeeVee Live couple weeks back, but the company officially launched the feature along with ten new free channels today.

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Roku launches Channel Store, bringing web content to your TV Channel Store   —  Play movies and TV shows from your Netflix Instant Queue.

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Roku launches Channel Store, bringing web content to your TV Roku announces Roku Channel Store, adds Facebook and Pandora   —  Your Roku box just got a whole lot more interesting. Roku, if you remember, makes the Roku player, a small device that sits next to your TV and plays Netflix, Amazon Video, and MLB selections. Roku has just added ten new channels to that line-up and built a fascinating platform for adding more down the line.

14. Joel on Software  permalink

Joel on Software
Www.joelonsoftware.com

Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he ...

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15. Victory Monday Bonus: Megan Strikes Back!  permalink

Victory Monday Bonus: Megan Strikes Back!
Finsnation.com

If you recall, on Friday I wrote about how Olivia was making a serious run at Megan for the title of Official FN Girl (and Official Imaginary Girlfriend of The Dude). Well, as you can plainly see, it seems that Megan is not going down without a fight. In fact, she’s coming out guns blazing and shooting people’s faces off with her ...

16. Building VMs out of the downloadable Win2k8R2 vhds  permalink

Building VMs out of the downloadable Win2k8R2 vhds
Vslmblg / MSDN

This posts walks you through how to create VMs from the Win2K8R2 vhds you can download from here. If you are an SCVMM / Hyper-V expert, you can skip this section. Launch the downloaded exe C:\vmimages> "Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation (Full Edition).exe" Extract the image to your MSSCVMMLibrary and make two copies (one ...

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OCCI and the ONE Cloud   —  The guys from OpenNebula made a great announcement on the OCCI mailing list: Dear OCCI members, The OpenNebula team is proud to announce the dawn of the OpenNebula Cloud. Although this can be shortened to ONE Cloud, it is in fact two, although both of them are accesible using two ...

17. Amazingly Compassionate Sun Employees!  permalink

Valerie Anne Fenwick / Sun Bloggers

Last month, tragedy struck a member of the Sun family, a woman who is a member of my building's custodial staff. She lost her son in a tragic manner and suddenly found herself in a position that no mother should be in: she had to bury her own child. He was only 23 years old. It turns out that a burial plot, services and a coffin are not all ...

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18. Publish to SharePoint  permalink

Publish to SharePoint
Clint Covington / MSDN

Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis—the PM in charge of publishing to SharePoint. A common question in the Access community is “how do I get my app on the web?” Here is the most recent example : My wife and I have just started our own Recruitment business and I started an Access DB to basically be a contact manager and to track our jobs, ...

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19. The State of Cloud: Startup Heroku Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps  permalink

The State of Cloud: Startup Heroku Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps
Om Malik / GigaOM

Heroku, the San Francisco-based startup that offers a Ruby-focused cloud platform as a service, last week saw the number of apps deployed on its platform top 40,000, according to CEO Byron Sebastian. He joined the company after stints at BEA, EMC and most recently, SourceLabs, where he replaced co-founder James Lindenbaum as CEO. [...]

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20. Channel9 Interviews and Demos  permalink

SharePointToolsBlog / MSDN

The Visual Studio Team has been releasing a series of Channel 9 interviews and demos on the new SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010. Please check them out and give us your feedback! Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Feature and Package ...

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Channel 9 Interview: Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010   —  This time I interview a good friend of mine , Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new Business Data Connectivity designer in Visual Studio 2010 and how it allows you to describe data coming from multiple data sources and how to work with them in SharePoint. He ...