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2008-05-01

Microsoft Unveils Live Mesh

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Microsoft unveils its web vision

Microsoft has lifted the lid on a new web service called Live Mesh, designed to connect a multiplicity of devices and applications online.

Live Mesh connects devices and services online and offline

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Microsoft Live Mesh

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Add your devices to Live Mesh

Explore your Live Desktop

Add and share folders

Stay informed with news

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Live Mesh uses a 2-MB client, called the Mesh Operating Environment, to replicate file folders to cloud storage and to sync and share content with other devices and people designated by the user. When users sign on to the Live Mesh site, Mesh.com, a "device ring" shows the devices connected to the service. The site lets users manage the information they're sharing and syncing. A Live Remote feature provides remote access to devices.

Video: Live Mesh with David Treadwell

Related:
Live Mesh Tech Preview
Windows Live Dev : Introducing Live Mesh
Live Mesh - The Race To Become Web 2.0's Next Edison | NetworkWorld.com Community
Redmond | Redmond Report Article: Live Mesh Not Yet Live
Microsoft's Live Mesh: Web Fabric With Loose Threads -- Windows -- InformationWeek
Technology News: Data Management: How Live Mesh Will Reinvent Microsoft
Live Mesh: We talk again with David Treadwell - LiveSide - News blog

2008-04-28

Likewise Software Connects Windows and Open Source

Likewise Open, recently released by Likewise Software, is an Open Source offering that provides fast and easy integration of Linux, UNIX and Mac systems.

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Reduce the Challenges and Costs of Running your Mixed Network

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Likewise Software Experts to Speak at Samba eXPerience 2008

Conference to focus on open source products

Samba eXPerience 2008

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Making Interoperability Possible: An Interview with Likewise CEO Barry Crist

Likewise CEO Barry Crist talks about the importance of interoperability, the differences between the corporate and open source communities, and what’s ahead for Linux.

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Microsoft Subnet Blog

Likewise Software: sandwiched between Microsoft and open source

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Likewise Open

What it Does

Likewise Open supports over 110 UNIX, Linux and Mac platforms

Joins Linux, Unix and Mac systems to Microsoft Windows Active Directory domains

Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and non-Windows systems

Enforces the same password policies for non-Windows users as for Windows users

2008-01-28

Porting the Power of KDE to Windows and OS X

KDE, a well know Desktop environment for Linux, will become available soon also in a version for Windows and OS X. That will enable users of Windows or Mac, to run popular KDE application like the Amarok Jukebox, the KOffice suite and more.

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KDE Sets its Sights on Windows, Mac OS X

KDE isn't just for Linux anymore. With the recent release of KDE 4, the K Desktop team has set their focus on porting the core libraries that power KDE applications over to both Windows and OS X. Although still in the early stages, there are already builds available for both platforms that will enable you to compile and run popular KDE application like the Amarok Jukebox or KOffice suite on either Windows or Mac, and KDE's goal is to have production-ready versions out later this year.

KDE 4.0 recently came out of beta (see our previous coverage) and during a KDE event at Google’s headquarters on Jan. 18, Aaron Seigo, KDE project lead said that the plan to take KDE cross-platform is “potentially one of the game-changers” for KDE.

2008-01-24

CarPC NeO — A 7-inch Car PC

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Introducing CarPC NeO — A 7-inch Car PC

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Here’s an application that will soon render your portable devices like laptops, palmtops, and UMPCs redundant in a car. Well, almost!

SEE-ON Technology, a Korean-based R&D company, recently unveiled its 7-inch car PC, ‘CarPC NeO‘, during the recently concluded CES 2008 in Las Vegas.

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2007-12-24

Password Retrieval Tools (video)

Related software:

oxid.it - Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.

John the Ripper password cracker

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords.

2007-11-11

Phoenix HyperSpace

An instant-on environment for laptops

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Phoenix HyperSpace: Quick-Boot Your Laptop

Phoenix Technologies' new HyperSpace is an instant-on environment for laptops, letting users launch a browser or other apps with booting into the OS.

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Press Releases

Phoenix Technologies Launches HyperSpace, Foundation for PC 3.0™ With Embedded Simplicity™

By enabling instant-on and purpose-built applications™ for PCs, a new platform from Phoenix will transform the user experience with new levels of security, reliability, ease of use, and low power consumption

HyperSpace delivers an elegant, high-performance, low battery-consumption environment which enables mobile PC users to be productive at all times.

The HyperSpace platform is enabled by an efficient hypervisor from Phoenix called HyperCore™, which is embedded within the core system firmware, or BIOS. HyperCore is a lightweight Zoned Virtual Machine Monitor (ZVMM) that runs specialized core services side-by-side with Windows.

Phoenix Technologies - Investors

via: Phoenix HyperSpace: Quick-Boot Your Laptop - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
related:
Phoenix Technologies - home
InfoWorld Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld | Phoenix Technologies Launches Into HyperSpace | November 8, 2007 05:01 AM | By David Marshall
Phoenix HyperSpace Bypasses Windows With Fast-Boot Technology

2007-10-23

From Vista to Ubuntu

ZDnet author moves from Vista to Ubuntu

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mattloney

Matt Loney's Blog

Sunday 21 October 2007, 11:26 PM

Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10

Posted by mattloney

I've been using Windows since it was battling for desktop supremacy with GEM in the early 90s. In the mid 90s I spent several years producing newspapers on Apple Macs. Since the late 90s I've dabbled with Linux, but there have always been compelling reasons to return to, or stick with, Windows. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon).

About Vista

* Why is Vista so slow (part 1)? [...]
* Why is Vista so slow (part 2)? [...]
* Why is Vista so slow (part 3)? [...]
* Why does the screen blank out every time I try to run a program? [...]
[...]

About Ubunto

Ubuntu has the slickest installation I have yet found in any OS.
Ubuntu makes it supremely easy to install extra software packages.
Ubuntu has a wonderfully useful and responsive 3D desktop, [...]
Ubuntu generally works just fine on my Santa Rosa laptop
[...]

Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10 >> Matt Loney's Blog >> mattloney's Blog at ZDNet UK Community

Freeware and Shareware for Nerds

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101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs

How can a person limit juicy downloads to 101 freeware and shareware choices? Tough calls, but the tools below are ones that every nerd needs, or at least should ponder. Many freeware choices are open source, and the shareware all offer trial offers, so there shouldn’t be any need to give anyone your MasterCard number.

101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs | Free Geekery

via: 17 Must-Have Free Apps for New Ubuntu Users | PCTipsBox

2007-10-07

Vixta - Linux with the Look and Feel of Vista

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Vixta.org

Vixta.org 094 + Install Option, is OUT! Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in look and feel to Windows Vista. Trying to spread linux to the "masses", not just sysadmins.

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