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Sometimes when I am locking down a kiosk machine I need to disable access to any windows Hotkey. This keeps savvy users from getting around by primitive lockdown procedures. A Hotkey is any keyboard shortcut that uses the Windows key. For example you can lock your workstation by pressing Windows Key + L. To disable […]
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AT&T Will start selling their DSL services at Wal-Mart in the US across 13 states. The number of stores offering the service will expand as AT&T starts to offer their services in more markets. The sale of DSL services is crucial to the long term plans of AT&T, as it can be used to get […]
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During a presentation at the Globalcom 2006 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday Intel revealed that they will be using the 802.11n pre-standard wireless into their Centrino chips by next year. The standard is not expected to be solidified by 2008 and is supposed to give users much higher performance than current wireless cards. Currently […]
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McAfee announced the final release of Virus Scan 8.5. It marks the first version supporting Vista, and 64 bit windows. In the press release for the new product, Microsoft chimed in with support: “Our partners play a vital role in the early adoption, development and delivery of Microsoft technologies. By working closely with partners like […]
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Microsoft has released a new version of the Remote Desktop Client that is compatible with some of the new features of Vista. It is available for Windows XP, and 2003. Some of the new features: · Network Level Authentication· Server Authentication· Plug and Play redirection· TS Gateway support· Monitor Spanning· 32-bit color and font smoothing […]
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Printer cartridges have become a huge profit source for many companies. This is why they try so hard to keep you from buying third party ink. Printer manufacturer’s have resorted to changing the container shape each time they release a new printer – to stay one step ahead of the price cutting ink vendors. They […]
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Google has closed their “Google Answers” program. It allowed people to submit questions for a fee, and qualified experts could answer them. The service was created to rival a similar site created by Yahoo, and was one of the first non search projects for Google. Google says that they will stop accepting questions later this […]
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At the TechEd IT Forum in spain the Microsoft Senior Vice President Bob Muglia revealed to ZDNET that the next version of Windows Server (LongHorn 2007) will be the last 32 bit server operating system released by windows He said, “We will ship ‘Longhorn’ in the second half of next year, and we will ship […]
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Not sure if you have been following the saga of this amazing looking keyboard: A Russian design company (Art. Lebedev Studio) developed this concept. The keys in the keyboard are individual OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) that can be programmed to display any type of graphic or text. They had numerous concept pictures on their […]
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Microsoft and Dell partnered up to create a custom PC in celebration for Microsoft releasing Vista. I picked up these pictures from the Vista Team website over at MS Here are the specs for the system: – Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Processor– 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX– 4GB RAM Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM @ […]
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