Upgrading to Windows 7 complicated story.

Posted by Al on Nov 17, 2009 in Dotnet | View Original Article

The most waited OS from Microsoft is here without any doubt, now you can find many blogs reviewing Windows 7 and everybody is giving the new OS a good review I believe, of course you can also find the radicals and the never happy people, yet in my modest opinion a good release for Microsoft all said and done. Yet there is something that does not complete the story.

When you purchase a operating system, you want a simple upgrading path, just go to a store and get your upgrade. Something that Apple did great with Snow Leopard, go home and upgrade your old operating system to what you just purchased. Microsoft had to add many version of the same operating system, that is ok by itself, yet you need to purchase the update that will let you install with your existing OS, whatever is Vista Professional or XP Professional. So if you purchase Windows 7 Ultimate you won’t be able to upgrade your XP Professional.

So Microsoft had to make it a little more complicated from that point and I still wonder why. Just let the user purchase one media for upgrade, detect what the user has and do the upgrade from there. But wait, there is more! Now the story still gets more complicated, for users that want to format the whole hard disk before installing the new upgrade the upgrade disk won’t detect the existing media to recognize you have the right to do an upgrade. In that case, I personally recommend to finish the installation before adding your license number and when complete you can go to the Start Menu and type license, open the license manager and enter your license, Windows 7 shall ask you to call Microsoft to

There are many users that want to format the hard disk to add a new operating system, and this is actually the recommended way, you really want to get rid of everything and let Windows 7 take care of installing itself cleaner that leaving other OS dlls on your hard disk.

Below is a fantastic table created by Paul Thurrott to understand why upgrading path you need.

Thanks Paul in creating this table, will make lots of users very successful in their plan to upgrade to Windows 7.

Cheers

Al

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COSS BI: Open Source, Open Core or Openly Naked?

Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Nov 17, 2009 in CLoud Computing, General, Technology News | View Original Article

Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure of Commercial Open Source Software.” Not surprisingly his post caused a lot of angry replies from people who work for COSS companies. “The emperor is not naked” they argued. I believe that the COSS emperor is openly naked. And the discussion shouldn’t be whether COSS [...]

Zeus Software Now Available on Amazon EC2

Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Nov 17, 2009 in CLoud Computing, General, Technology News | View Original Article

Zeus Technology today announces its flagship web traffic management solution, Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0, is available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The solution gives companies access to extra computing power with the tools to deliver exceptional online services on a pay-as-you-go basis. The platform will make web development easier for companies and developers. Using a simple web service interface, users can monitor and control web traffic and automate maintenance to ensure online services are always fast and available even during high peaks in web traffic.

Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas

Posted by 4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines on Nov 17, 2009 in Dotnet | View Original Article

The Microsoft Chart controls make it easy to take data from a database or some other data store and present it as a chart. As discussed in Plotting Chart Data, the Chart controls offer a myriad of ways to get data into a chart. You can add the data programmatically, point-by-point, or you can bind an ADO.NET DataTable directly to the Chart. You can even use declarative data source controls, like the SqlDataSource or ObjectDataSource controls.

In addition to converting your specified data points into a chart image, the Chart controls also include a wealth of statistical formulae that you can use to analyze the plotted data. For example, with a single line of code you determine the mean (average) value for data in a particular series. Likewise, with one line of code you can get the median, variance, or standard deviation. These values can be displayed as text on the page or as a stripe line on the chart itself. What's more, the Chart controls include functions to forecast future values, to compute moving averages, to identify trends, and to determine rates of change, among others.

This article looks at how to use two statistical formulae. Specifically, we'll look at how to compute and display the mean of a series, as well as how to display an exponential trend line on the chart to forecast future values. Read on to learn more!
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Silverlight Virtual Twilight Tour

Posted by Silverlight Team on Nov 17, 2009 in Miscelleneous | View Original Article

In anticipation of the opening of the Twilight Saga: New Moon movie on November 20th, MSN has created a Virtual Twilight Tour. Created entirely in Silverlight 3 - from the video player to the map interface - the Tour brings Forks, La Push, Port Angeles, and Volterra right to your computer so that you can see 16 of Twilight’s and New Moon’s most exciting locations.

MSN built the Tour using Visual Studio and Visual C#, employing the Bing Maps control for location-based navigation. For the ‘bells and whistles,’ Expression Blend helped to create the animations that transition the user from one action to another. The end result is a seamless multimedia interaction. Just scroll over the map to check out the video, photos, audio, and contextual Bing searches for the full tour experience.

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TableSorter: Flexible Client Side Table Sorting With jQuery

Posted by W3Avenue Team on Nov 17, 2009 in Javascript | View Original Article

TableSorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. TableSorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

TableSorter can be easily configured to achieve different effects by passing various options at initialization. You can control look and feel of your tables using CSS. It has been tested successfully in the following browsers with JavaScript enabled: Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Safari 2+, Opera 9+, Konqueror.

Features

Multi-column sorting
Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats), time. Add your own easily
Support for ROWSPAN and COLSPAN on TH elements
Support secondary “hidden” sorting (e.g., maintain alphabetical sort when sorting on other criteria)
Extensibility via widget system
Cross-browser: IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+
Small code size

Developed by Christian Bach; TableSorter is available for download under MIT or GPL License. You can find further information, documentation, demos & download on TableSorter Website.

SugarCRM on Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform

Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Nov 17, 2009 in CLoud Computing, General, Technology News | View Original Article

SugarCRM today announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud platform for web applications and services. “With Windows Azure, Microsoft has built a true cloud computing platform going well beyond the simple hosted infrastructure that most service providers offer today,” said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM. “Windows Azure enables SugarCRM value-added resellers to create and deploy unique solutions for customers around the globe. This new service is another key component of the Sugar Open Cloud, the SugarCRM cloud strategy for delivering simple, affordable CRM anywhere based on customer need. Sugar on Windows Azure combines the most user-friendly CRM application on the market with a highly available, scalable and secure cloud computing platform.”

Microsoft DRM part 3

Posted by Tom Barker on Nov 17, 2009 in Flex | View Original Article

Next in my series describing my implementation of Microsoft DRM I will detail how I refined the work flow to a single process. This process is portable, can be run on any machine, so it negates the need to...

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Code Cast 34 – David Starr Sells Out to the Man

Posted by Chris Brandsma on Nov 17, 2009 in Dotnet | View Original Article

OK, bitter-sweet podcast here, this is Daddy Starr’s final podcast with the Elegant Code Cast. Why? Well, you will just have to listen to find that out.

In the mean time, we also talk about Agile, LEAN, working agile methodologies in with family life, and his new company: Guild 3. Have a listen and tell us what you think.

Links from the Show:

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Do you find table summaries helpful?

Posted by Roger Johansson on Nov 17, 2009 in Miscelleneous | View Original Article

On the W3C HTML Working Group’s mailing list there's been plenty of discussion about the future of the table element’s summary attribute. Should it be allowed at all in HTML 5? Should it be allowed but only “semi-valid”? Should other ways of providing information about the structure of a data table be encouraged?

One question that I have seen being asked is if people who use screen readers actually are aware that data tables may have a summary attribute and if they find the information provided in it useful.

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Posted in Accessibility, HTML 5.