Tis’ the season to jolly up your desktop with Vista Christmas icons. This set of 25 icons are perfect for getting in the holiday spirit. Incredible quality icons.
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This is the steps to get 3DMark 05 to run in Wine 0.9.49

1) Download the 3DMark patch found here and recompile wined3d.dll with this hack included.

2) Download 3DMark 05 and install the benchmark into Wine.

3) Run regedit and add the “Direct3D” key and set “OffscreenRenderingMode” to fbo there is further info about this here.

4) When you run 3DMark 05 “disable post processing” as it is (very very slow)

A recent score:

Image Quality in 3DMark 05 with Wine:

Feel free to comment about this post at the wine-forum.

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Realtek High Definition Audio drivers for Vista/2000/XP/2003 .

Every week I make an ASR backup of my Windows 2003 R2 servers, some of them are physically located at another site.
Due to that fact I had to think of a secure way to get my data over the WAN to my office.
Just plain copying is not an option because we all know if one bit falls over my complete ASR backup is rubbish.
And I would have wasted precious bandwidth.

A solution I could come up with was to use plain old WinRar, I found out that there was a command line version as well.
But the help that comes with that version is kinda cryptic.

Below is my command line that I came up with.
rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:\asr-bu\*.bkf

I will explain it in full detail:
rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:\asr-bu\*.bkf

a = add files to archive, that

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Microsoft highlighted a number of customer migrations it says signify that users are gearing up to switch to the year-old OS.

Microsoft Tuesday assumed sales of Vista have hit 88 million and the company highlighted a figure of customer migrations it says signify that users are gearing up to change to the year-old OS in spite of recent surveys that say many are taking a careful approach.

Company officials say the ebb and flow of new contracts and expiring contracts means the overall number of volume licensing copies of Vista doesn’t alter radically from quarter to quarter.

In addition to the 88 million copies of Vista sold, Microsoft said 42 million PCs now have Vista licenses via amount licensing contracts signed by corporate users. Microsoft used the same 42 million number back in July when it discussed Vista uptake at its annual meeting for monetary analysts.

The Vista numbers were tabulated during Microsoft’s first fiscal quarter, which ended Sept. 30. The monetary results of that quarter were reported October. 25.

The numbers of copies sold represents nearly a 47% boost over the 60 million copies sold that was reported…

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