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Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP SP2

Administrator — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:34:16 +0100

I mentioned before that Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off (and ironically, this can be done even without his permission) before starting work on the box. This is irritating and removes much of the productivity that Remote Desktop brings to Windows. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2

A much touted feature in SP2 Read More...

Shaw to start trials of Fiber To The Home ( FTTH ) Gigabit per Second Network

Administrator — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:02:41 +0100

Internet service 133 times faster than standard high-speed will be tested in Edmonton this summer, an official with Shaw Communications said Thursday.

The Calgary-based company is launching a trial of gigabit Internet technology in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. A community in Vancouver will get the first look at ultrahigh-speed downloads in April.

It will be tested in an area of Edmonton during August.

"The stuff that we're all getting used to on our wireless devices, Read More...

Telus to offer iPhone beginning Nov 5th

Administrator — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:12:07 +0100

Telus Mobility has announced it will begin selling the Apple iPhone on Thursday, November 5th along with a range of 3G data plans.

The move will coincide with the launch of its HSPA+ high speed wireless network developed in conjunction with Bell Mobility.

Telus will be offering three versions: the Apple 8GB 3G iPhone, along with the 16GB and 32GB 3GS version in black or white.

Pricing for the 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models will be $600, $700 and $800 respectivelyRead More...

Telus, Bell to get the iPhone in Canada

Administrator — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:34 +0100

Many Canadians are cheering as Telus and Bell announced plans Tuesday to begin selling Apple's popular iPhone, ending Rogers reign as the exclusive iPhone carrier in Canada.

After completing a $1 billion upgrade so its network could support high-speed packet access (HSPA) used by the iPhone, Bell and Telus will both begin offering the iPhone in November, the companies said in separate statements.

Neither company provided any further details on pricing or an exact launch date foRead More...

Rogers announces faster network for mobile Internet in five Canadian cities

Administrator — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:33:31 +0100

MONTREAL — Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI.B) says it has rolled out an even faster wireless data network in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal for mobile Internet users.

Rogers says it has tripled the current download speeds of its network, which will deliver mobile Internet with speeds as fast as a home or office Internet experience.

Rogers says it began deploying the HSPA-plus network earlier this year and consumers can now access the new wireless speeds through its RocRead More...

Googles New Search Engine ( Code named Caffiene )

Administrator — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:14:43 +0100

In the face of increasing innovation and competition in the search market, Google is upping the ante by developing new technology which will speed up indexing search results and create a larger index.

Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content faster and reduce the time between new cRead More...

Gamer robs virtual bank to get real-world cash

Administrator — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

An Australian video gamer has stolen thousands of dollars from a bank inside an online game and converted them into real-world money.

The bank heist happened in Eve Online, where players mine in-game resources to build colonies and space ships in a futuristic space-themed online world. The game has hundreds of thousands of players who pay for access to the world. An in-game economy, complete with its own currency known as interstellar kredits, has emerged to enable trading transactions Read More...

New wireless networks to put Bell and Telus on same footing as Rogers

Administrator — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

MONTREAL - Bell (TSX:BCE) and Telus (TSX:T) customers should have a greater choice of mobile phones, possibly Apple's iPhone, and better prices when the wireless companies roll out next-generation networks in early next year, analysts say.

The move will put both Bell and Telus in a better competitive situation against Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI.B), analysts said Tuesday.

"Levelling the playing field is what this is all about," said analyst Nick Agostino of Research CapitalRead More...

Outlook 2010 to Set New Standard in Irritation

Administrator — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Creating HTML Email is a tough gig.

By the time you add up all the relevant desktop clients and common webmail providers, you are talking about between 15-30 platforms you need to test for. Even if all those mail clients were friendly, modern and predictable net citizens, that would still be a big task.

They're not.

A few years ago - joy of joys - things got significantly harder when Microsoft chose to cripple the rendering-capabilities of their flagship mail product by replRead More...

Zack Attacks Late Night, Signs On For The Reunion!

Administrator — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Tonight, Mark-Paul Gosselaar Zack Morris was a guest on the show!! Not only is he so ON for the reunion, he sang an old Zack Attack hit "Friends Forever" with The Roots. This was amazing. (Also, ANOTHER cast member signed on for the reunion during the segment. Watch to find out which one it is.)

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/06/zack-attacks-late-night-signs-on-for-the-reunion/

Phone Lines Expected To Be Busy for Mother's Day

Administrator — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Thinking of calling mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day today? Network congestion is always a problem as it's one of the busiest calling days of the year.

SaskTel's Andy Tate explains, "Mother's Day is one of the busiest calling days of the year, every year. It's busier then Father's Day, busier then Christmas Day and we do expect a high volume of long distance calls, in fact this is the tenth year in a row we project that we will have over one million call attempts Read More...

New MSN Virus Seen

Administrator — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

XXXX says:

Woah those acai berry pills are no joke I just lost like 23 pounds in two weeks, I am living proof that they work with no special diet or nothing, they only cost me five dollars over at LINK REMOVED

As always you should never click on links from people on your msn list.

If you think you are infected you should run an online virus scan.

http://housecall.antivirus.com

Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life

Administrator — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker. Security firm Trend Micro says some of the machines have been updated over the past few days with fake antivirus software - the first attempt by Conficker's authors to profit from their massive "botRead More...

A cyber Trojan worm is expected to hit millions of computers on April 1,

Administrator — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

A cyber Trojan worm is expected to hit millions of computers on April 1, and authorities aren't treating it like an April Fool's joke.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has issued a warning about the latest version of the Conficker worm, which could potentially have infected any computers running a Microsoft operating system.

CIRA, which manages Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, says that the worm will force infected computers to connect randomlyRead More...

Don't Forget – 'Earth Hour' Happens Next Week

Administrator — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

by Mariella Moon

Yes, it's that time of the year again - the time to switch the lights off for one full hour; that is if you're planning to participate in the 2009 Earth Hour event. Earth Hour started off back in 2007 in Sydney to send out people's stance about climate change. Organizers claim as much as 10.2 percent decrease in energy consumption that first year with 2.2 million households in the Australian city taking part in the event.

"Earth Hour is an opportunity for the globaRead More...

Shawcable Launches 100 megabit/sec service ( Docsis 3.0 )

Administrator — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Canadian cable operator Shaw announced a few short weeks ago that it would be launching a new 100-Mbps speed tier using DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. Shortly after that, Motorola claimed the success of its TX32 downstream module for channel bonding with a milestone release counting 1,000 modules sold. Here we are later in the same month, and the two news items are finally joined together with the announcement that Shaw is using Motorola's DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem termination systems (CMTS) - iRead More...

NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution

Administrator — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/

Business model for P2P firm at last?

By Lewis Page

Posted in Government, 12th February 2009 11:32 GMT

Counter Terror Expo News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billions" to any Read More...

Three undersea cables cut - Middle East and South Asia Affected

Administrator — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

December 19, 2008, 2:01 PM

Internet and voice traffic to much of the Middle East and south Asia has been disrupted by the overnight loss of three major cables spanning the Mediterranean.

According to a notice from France Telecom, the three provisioning cables linking Sicily to Egypt were lost within about 40 minutes of one another Friday morning (local time). A France Telecom-owned maintenance ship will be dispatched to inspect the site within a few hours. Until then, it's not known whatRead More...

Seattle Data Center Capacity Increase

Administrator — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Onsight Data is pleased to announce that our data center has turned up a 10G circuit to *both* Verio and Level 3 in Seattle. They have also turned up a 10G circuit to *both* Comcast and the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) for peering. This brings our total capacity in Seattle to 70G.

Seattle, WA (sea01) - 70G total capacity!
Internap - 2x 10G
Qwest - 1x 10G
Verio - 1x 10G
Level3 - 1x 10G
Comcast - 1x 10G (peering)
SIX - 1x 10G (peerinRead More...

Using your magicjack with standalone voip devices by recovering your sip

Administrator — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

1) Download pmdump but don't run it but just place that .exe file on your desktop.
2) Unplug your magicjack
3) Open up a shell prompt ( start - run - cmd )
4) cd to your desktop
5) plug your magic jack back in
6) type pmdump.exe -list and find your pid for magicjack.exe
7) type pmdump.exe magicjackdump.txt

( Note: I realized that my screenshot I posted I had already created a magicjack.txt so I had to name mine magicjack1.txt)