“Apple has changed its license for Mac OS X Server 10.5 (Leopard Server) to allow virtualized instances. VMware and Parallels are poised to offer support. This probably presages a thoroughly overhauled Xserve product with greater capability for acting as a virtual machine server, too. ‘Ben Rudolph, Director of Corporate Communications for Parallels, told me, “Enabling Leopard Server to run in a virtual machine may take some time, but we’re working closely with Apple on it and will make it public as quickly as possible.” Pat Lee, Product Manager at VMware, concurred, saying “We applaud Apple for the exciting licensing changes implemented in Leopard Server. Apple customers can now run Mac OS X Server, Windows, Linux and other x86 operating systems simultaneously on Apple hardware so we are excited about the possibilities this change presents.” Although neither company committed to specific features or timetables, it appears as though we should be seeing virtualization products from both that will enable an Xserve to run multiple copies of Leopard Server in virtual machines.’”

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…“You can build your system for a lot less than a real Mac and get the performance of a top-dollar Apple machine. This is fact and a lot of the real Mac users will deny, but it is fact. My machine runs a e4300 Core Duo Processor over-clocked to 3.40 GHZ. Where can you get a 3.4-GHz Mac? It will cost you a fortune. I have 1066-MHz DDR2 memory. Where can you get that on a real Mac???”

“Why run OS X? Well, when you are just used to Windows, it is like living inside a house and not experimenting the whole world out there. Once you get out of it, it is just amazing. Mac is just that: You just feel like glued to the computer. Everything is just beautiful, the interface, the stability. Once you experiment it, you don’t want to go back to windows.

AntiSpyGuard Descriptions:

AntiSpyGuard, also known as Anti Spy Guard 2007, is counterfeit anti-spyware software. AntiSpyGuard usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Trojan and virus. XPAntivirus will display fake security alerts or notifications to trick user to buy the paid version of AntiSpyGuard.
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Hi, Yahoo Messenger fans, I have exciting news for you! No, it’s not the Vista version of the instant messaging client, it’s only Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta, a brand new version of the application designed to work on Windows XP and Vista. Besides the support for the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system, Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta is available
in six new countries, allowing the local consumers to use the program in their native language: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (Hindi), and Vietnam. Now let me introduce you to the new features:

First of all, you’ll notice the new design, which is pretty attractive… with a few exceptions. Although you can choose from several color themes, I found at least one element which annoys me every time the contact window is opened: a communication bar which appears under a contact name, requiring you to choose from instant messaging, VoIP chat or SMS. The Sunnyvale company didn’t say a thing on whether the bar can be disabled or not, or at least if we can set one of the options as default, because some of the consumers who use only…

Common Security measure that is implemented Corporate Computers and or Public Computers, but basically I use this hack to annoy anyone who uses my laptop without my permission. Of Course, I had set my laptop to have multiple users and of course my own user account that has Administrator rights.. and all other have standard User accounts.

Ok, Enough with the chit-chat it’s time to work :

To Disable

1. Click on the Start Orb -> then Click Run to go the Run Dialog box
2. On the Run Dialog Box -> type Regedit
3. On Regedit navigate to this location :
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
• On the Right hand side look for the value “WriteProtect” it has a DWORD value of 0×00000000(0)
• Change the DWORD value to 0×00000000(1) to disable
4. Exit Regedit
5. Reboot your Computer.

To Enable

1. Click on the Start Orb -> then Click Run to go the Run Dialog box
2. On the Run Dialog Box -> type Regedit
3. On Regedit navigate to this location :
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
• On the Right hand side look for the value “WriteProtect” it has a DWORD value of 0×00000000(1)
• Change the DWORD value to 0×00000000(0) to enable
4. Exit Regedit
5. Reboot your Computer.

And You’re all set.

As you might already know, the VS2008 VPC will be expired on Nov 1st, the VSTS team is going to release a new VPC with updated expiration date.  Detail in below,

As the final act in our saga of expiring VPCs, I’m happy to announce that we’ve reissued VPCs for VS2008 Beta2 with an updated expiration date.  You can find the updated links on the VS2008 download page:

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite VPC
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite & Team Foundation Server VPC

Thanks to everyone that has helped us get the word out about this situation and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this might have caused you.  Needless to say, we’re taking steps now to ensure that we don’t make this particular mistake again.

Source from Jeff Beehler’s Blog — VS2008 Beta2 VPCs re-released