Hi,

Just want to let you know that my latest article about "Group Policy related changes in Windows Server 2008" has been released today on www.windowsecurity.com.

This 4th article in the series deals with Group Policy Preference actions, processing options, SYSVOL, Item Level targeting (ILT), Export/Import functionality, "well hidden stuff", variables, logging, future additions etc. - read more here...

I hope you like it - feel free to drop a comment or vote on the site!!!

/Jakob

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My original POST:

I thought I would blabber a bit… This is for the people who like to ask
questions.. and have a curious mind… :-)

Moore claimed recently that CPU power will reach a barrier in 10-15 years.
Many of you may be aware of "Moore’s law" that he had stated that every 24
months the power of CPU’s (the amount of calculations they would be able to
do) would double.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore’s_law
This barrier Moore says now, would be true if we continue our path in this

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Don Reisinger, ITworld.com

As the world’s most prominent operating system, Windows has dominated the tech industry for well over a decade and its competitors - Mac OS X and Linux - have failed to gain the kind of penetration Microsoft has.

But ever since the days of Windows 98, we have been forced to deal with a slew of Windows issues that have plagued individuals and companies alike. Instead of being the highly intuitive operating system Mac OS X is, Windows became bloated and difficult to use. Instead of offering sound functionality and customizability like Linux, Windows became quite the opposite.

To make matters worse, malicious hackers and spammers started developing a slew of attacks that proved deadly to Windows systems. Responding too late, Microsoft has allowed the security issue to become such a concern that some have migrated to other operating systems. And who can blame them? With Microsoft doing very little to protect them, the decision seemed quite simple.

But for all of its issues, Windows XP was

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For a design-orientated conference, Microsoft’s MIX08 event has one of the worst-designed session timetables/planners I’ve ever come across. The sessions are listed in no apparent order and doesn’t actually provide any methods to sort the list by title, time, place or focus just in case you have any sense of control.

If you wanted to see what’s on during a particular time-slot, nope, can’t do that. If you wanted to see what’s on in a particular room on a day, nope, can’t do that. If you wanted to plan a list of sessions you’re interested in to find any conflicts, nope, can’t do that.

Because my time is so much less valuable than whomever designed this, I’ve taken the liberty to recompose the entire schedule in an Excel workbook to give some sense of time and place with what’s going on during the 3-day event with over 76 sessions in total.

First, I have an overview schedule of all the events and functions at MIX.

Then for each day, I have a detailed schedule of all the sessions that are happening that day columnized by which room it’s happening in.

Together with

Emotiv’s headset gives users mind-control over digital objects

Posted by Daniel Terdiman

Emotiv’s headset allows users some control over objects on a computer. It is possible to move things around, with limited application, with your mind.

(Credit: Emotiv)

I’ve just made a small orange cube disappear with my mind. No hands necessary.

I’m testing out the San Francisco company’s so-called brain control interface, the latest iteration of technology it first showed off a year ago, but which, unlike last year, is now almost ready for prime time.

The idea is a blending of hardware and software: A headset that seems a little like the one from the James Cameron-written 1995 film, Strange Days, complete with a set of sensors that are built to read your brain waves.

The software then is designed to interpret those brain waves in such a way as to allow users to manipulate objects onscreen with nothing but their mind.

So that’s why I’ve come to this office in downtown San Francisco, where I’m face-to-face with this little orange cube. It’s kind of mocking me,

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