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Archive for March, 2008

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ReMIX08: Saving the Dates

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Remembering the fun of 2007:

Saving the dates for 2008:
Sydney - Tuesday May 20th, and
Melbourne- Thursday May 22nd

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Microsoft has a <3

Monday, March 24th, 2008

http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2008/03/21/microsoft-finally-makes-things-right/

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ZOMG!!1! Battlefield Bad Company Beta.. this week??

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Battlefield Company Multiplayer Tutorial.

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Building your own PC Hot Rod

Monday, March 24th, 2008

ars technica has three configurations for ultra-fast, ultra-hot current PCs you can build. The God Box is only US$13,000 or so. But I bet it's fast.

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Al Upton and the miniLegends

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Microsoft is sponsoring The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show on The Podcast Network for 6 episodes as an experiment, and I really like the format that Uncle Dave Wallace and Uncle Mike Seyfang have created.
Episode 044 is with South Australian Teacher, Al Upton, on the Order for Closure for his miniLegends blog. I fear that process [...]

Making a "Lucky" Future Windows

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A posting on Microsoft Watch by Joe Wilcox: "10 Ways Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 Lucky" provides intriguing 10 things Microsoft can do to make the next version of Windows.
I personally know very little of what is going on in the Windows world, so it's tough to comment on whether Joe is on the mark, [...]

Vista SP1: Self Hosted Installs

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Rather than downloading the update on each of your Vista PCs, it might be better on your ISP bandwidth charge to download once:

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone (KB936330) 32-bit
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone for x64-based Systems (KB936330)

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Micro TV Stations

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

As shown by this recent MSDN Channel 9 video; and other tools such as Yahoo! Live and UStream, creating your own Micro TV station is simple.
In studio audiences, once a bastion of good TV is now possible with these systems too: I do enjoy being a noisy in-studio crowd with the 2webcrew create their podcasts. [...]

Long Zheng on Windows ME

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Oops, I am going to refrain from dissing Windows ME in the future.
Sorry, Long. You are right.

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Oh, Windows XP SP3 Overview

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

For those wanting to know what is coming with Windows XP SP3, here is the document.

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Uptime: 22 days. And I run Windows XP SP2.
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