Free PowerShell 2.0 Management Library for Hyper-V R2
PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V is a rather self-explanatory label for any project, and to little surprise, it delivers just what it promises, namely a PowerShell management library for Microsoft’s hypervisor role in Windows Server. Put together by Microsoft Evangelist James O’Neill, the new PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper-V are designed to allow administrators to implement the resource as a module for PowerShell version 2. PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V is available free of charge via Microsoft CodePlex, distributed under the company’s Public License (Ms-PL), which is an open source license. The latest version of the library represents an important update from the Release Candidate version.
“This update from the RC version contains more changes than would be normal , hence it is designated as “Gold” rather than “release”. I expect there to be corrections to the on-line help text,” O’Neill stated. “This release was produced to exploit PowerShell V2 and as a PowerShell module it will not run on v1 If you are running an R2 server OS, or are doing remote management from Windows 7 then you have PowerShell V2. If you are running on “Classic” 2008, you will need to upgrade the supplied PowerShell V1 to V2 or stick to V1 of the library.” Read more
Solar Nanotubes Make Light Work?
I have been reporting on developments in photovoltaic cells for as long as I can remember and there’s always some new technology or fabrication method that’s going to improve upon the woeful efficiency of today’s silicon based solar cells. I’m still waiting and outside the labs most commercial cells still only manage a fairly miserable 20 – 30 percent efficiency, which basically means that during their lifetime very few solar cells ever recover the enormous amount of energy put into their manufacture, let alone live long enough to generate ‘free’ electricity. I have no doubt that one day the problem will be licked and this might just be the development to do it. It’s a rolled up graphene layer nanotube and it’s the brainchild of a team of researchers at Cornell University. The first problem, though, is that it’s tiny, no larger than a DNA molecule, which means you’ll need an awful lot of them to do anything useful. The good news is that it’s very efficient and when exposed to light the tubular structure creates more electrons, and the cylindrical structure makes it easier for them to flow. I know, we’ve been here before so don’t hold your breath, but one day, it will happen, and maybe, just maybe this is where it started…
Firefox Erodes IE to New Low
The open-source browser from Mozilla has managed to grab a share of the market representing no less than half of the Microsoft proprietary browser, according to StatCounter data. Essentially, the market measuring firm indicates that Internet Explorer’s share has dropped to under 60% while Firefox has grown continually to its detriment and is up to 30%. The statistics made public are valid for users worldwide. The situation is much worse in the US for IE and Microsoft, StatCounter explains.
In the US alone, IE dropped from 56 .18% in June 2009 to just 54.77% in July. This while Firefox jumped from 31.5% to 32.34% in the same period of time. Safari is the bronze winner in the browser race with 7.59% while Chrome accounts for 3% and Opera for 0.72% in July. But the growth of Safari, Chrome and Opera pales in comparison to that of Firefox. Read more
Windows 7 ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified Driver
AMD is ready for the RTM release of Windows 7. Or at least this is what the chip-maker claims as it has released ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified Driver introducing support for Windows 7 Beta Build 7000. The processor manufacturer, which acquired ATI, indicated that the advent of ATI Catalyst 9.3 drivers for Windows 7 represented a guarantee that support would be available with all planned future releases of ATI Catalyst, for the remaining milestones of the next iteration of the Windows client, but especially for the gold (final) version Windows 7.
“AMD’s expertise in visual computing shines through in the combined experience of Windows 7 and ATI Radeon graphics,” revealed Anantha Kancherla, group program manager responsible for Windows graphics, Microsoft. Read more
Internet Explorer is losing
The latest figures from the front of the browser wars of the table in the same way that reveals to continue to watch. IE bleed when the opponent has to win and the power of Microsoft’s efforts in spite of all this table does not change. Net Applications last report, the ongoing decline of Internet Explorer, on top of the 7th to lose market share within a month, now in their own revealed that a constant impetus. Internet Explorer’s market share terms, yüde 67.55 ‘de kaldı.
October and November months 1′er% on average in 2008 to IE has lost share, in the same period, Firefox and Safari to get the losses began to race. Read more
2009 new Need For Speed 3 is coming!
In the past year, Need For Speed: Underground’u managed to achieve the targeted revenue figure was not related to many speculations. Estimates because of the failure of the racing game Need For EA’nin popular Speed’i a while “will rest” it was. But was not expected and EA decided to go over questions. And the more insistent.
Company official in 2009 as it plans to issue three new NFS’yi announced. The first NFS: Shift the name will be removed and will target the more serious racers. PSP, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 will be ready for the Shift except NFS: Nitro, EA’in Montreal studio will be prepared and only the Wii and DS will be released for. Read more
Smartfish Pro: The most intelligent keyboard!
Although many think the computer on which you buy, the keyboard is quite large in terms of users is never a matter we can not deny. Long-term computer use, especially in the hand and wrist pain in the majority of users do not use the appropriate keyboard is caused to them.
Users identified as the most suitable keyboard from the mission to get a keyboard manufacturer Smartfish called, late in the day, the world’s most intelligent and the most healthy ergonomic keyboard has announced the development Smartfish Pro. Users looking at writing style, the user himself can adjust Smartfish Pro, hosted by the Dynamic Positioning Controller system the status of keyboard height and angle can be determined by, and so users, user-friendly keyboard that does not have the close of the hand and wrist pain relief. Read more
Microsoft Pushes Gaming Technology Event into 2010
For the time being, Microsoft has kept “2009” for what should now be Gamefest 2010. However, the Redmond company did announce that its gaming technology event had been pushed back into the next twelvemonth. Rather than holding Gamefest 2009 by the end of this year, the software giant revealed that the conference was re-scheduled for the start of 2010. The company explained that the new date for the event was the logical response to the feedback received from its partners.
“Gamefest is Microsoft’s premier conference on game development, and so it should revolve around game developers. We sought out feedback from developers who attended Gamefest 2008 and we found that, given development schedules and ship dates, the conference would be more impactful if held earlier in the calendar year rather than right before the busy holiday season. Read more
Vista Sidebar for XP
Maybe you’ve been putting off upgrading to Vista, but quite like the look of the operating system? Well, we’ve already shown you how to upgrade XP to look and feel like Vista, but one thing has been missing, the Sidebar, which hosts the famous’ Gadgets’. These are small desktop applications and utilities that have proved to be one of Vista’s most popular features. Now they’re yours, for free, with the Windows Sidebar Real One Pack. It’s not just a copy but the original Sidebar, rescripted for XO, so it looks and behaves just like the real thing, you can download gadgets, funky clocks and so on from Microsoft and all of the other goodies developed for the original.
Superior Memory Usage and Graphics Performance for Windows 7
Microsoft already proved that on the same system configuration Windows 7 would boot a few seconds faster than Windows Vista. But fact is that the evolution from Vista to Windows 7 is not limited to the boosted startup times. In this context, at the Windows hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Mike Angiulo, General Manager, Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem Team for Microsoft, and Jon DeVaan, Senior Vice President of the Core Operating System Division, revealed Windows 7’s superiority compared to Vista also in terms of memory usage and graphics performance.
“Once we’re even booted we’ve done a lot to improve the memory usage, and the graphics performance. This graph that you see on the screen here shows how in Vista we scale linearly with the number of open windows, so that’s the amount of memory that’s consumed by the system as you open more Windows. Read more
