I found a project that let me get django experience without having to go it alone. I will be focusing on this project now. I will be revising my list of features and will have a list of things that need to be complete before I feel the project is at an alpha. Since these terms vary from project to project:

Alpha

All features are in the site, they may not work, they may not be complete, but they are there. The main path of the website must work.

Beta

Features are complete, there are still bugs, which should mostly be minor in nature..

Release Candidate

Software has no known bugs, features are complete. This is a final stage of testing to make sure there is nothing left broken before full release.

Release

Software has no known bugs, features are all complete, software is thoroughly tested.

I look to have the site at RC by the 24th of January and full release by February 1st. Later today I will have the list of features for first release, as opposed to my previous list that was stuff I want in the software eventually.

Hi,

die Forefront UAG RC1 ist auf Microsoft Connect verfügbar!

Leider sieht man das Programm nur, wenn man die Invitation ID hat. Sobald der Download öffentlich ist poste ich den hier ebenfalls.

Na dann, Viel Spass beim selber Testen!
CU

Según el anuncio realizado por el mismo Linus Torvals el pasado 19 de Noviembre se lanzó, lo que seria, el último “Release Candidate” (Linux 2.6.32-rc8) de la nueva versión del Kernel de Linux 2.6.32.

Entre las mejoras se encuentran:

• Gráficos y aceleración3D
• Modos de almacenamiento
• Soportes a nuevos filesystems (Btrfs, Ext3, Ext4, XFS)
• Mejoras en controladores de red y subsistemas

La gente de H Open Source hizo un extenso análisis de lo nuevo que va a traer el kernel 2.6.32-rc8.

• Análisis (inglés)
• Traducción (Google Translate)

1. The very handy ‘Snipper’ tool does not have an UNDO. It does have an eraser, BUT having been involved with computer GUI design since way back in the 1970s I find it AMAZING that Microsoft has the gall to develop a 2009 application that so blatantly violates one of the fundamental and much cherished precepts of modern GUIs.

2. You can’t INVOKE a second (or third, or for that matter a fourth) instance of an application just by clicking the Taskbar icon. To invoke an additional instance, you have to RIGHT CLICK on the Taskbar icon, and click on the application name that appears on pop-up menu. It works. But since I frequently use multiple instances of the same application, I had hoped that I could just click the Taskbar icon and get another instance. Actually, from a GUI design standpoint what Windows 7 does in this instance, may actually be the right thing. So this is just a heads up.

3. The non-working BACKUP problem I discovered on October 29, 2009 appears to have been a bug that crept in at the 11th hour, prior to the actual release of Windows 7 — on October 22. This bug was not in the Release Candidate. But, in got introduced when the Release Candidate was being converted to THE RELEASE. As the song, goes: “only in America,” or in this case, more appropriately, “only with Microsoft.” This is why Mike (from LRPCS) could get a perfect Windows 7 install, while my backup still does not work. He was using a Release Candidate that he downloaded for FREE. I, the sucker I am, was using a $149 copy of Windows 7 Professional I bought from newegg.com on pre-order. So much for you get what you pay for.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

Anura Guruge
www.guruge.com

Windows 7 steht seit dem 22. Oktober in den Regalen. Seitdem wurde ich immer wieder gefragt, ob irgendwie ein Upgrade von Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate) auf die fertige Verkaufsversion möglich ist.

Deswegen möchte ich auf einen Artikel hinweisen, den ich im August verfasst habe und nochmals betonen, dass ein Upgrade durch die einfache Änderung einer einzigen Datei möglich ist: Upgrade von Windows 7 RC auf Windows 7 RTM.

Microsoft empfiehlt allerdings eine Neuinstallation, um mögliche Komplikationen zu vermeiden. Aus persönlicher Erfahrung kann ich aber sagen, dass bei mir ein Upgrade hervorragend funktioniert hat und mit keinerlei Komplikationen verbunden war.

Hier also nochmals der genaue Ablauf, den ihr für ein Upgrade befolgen müsst. (Wenn ihr mehr dazu lesen wollt, klickt den Link oben an!)

• Installations-DVD auf der Festplatte entpacken.
• Verzeichnis der entpackten DVD öffnen und in den Unterordner sources browsen.
• Dort dann die Datei cversion.ini (zB mit Notepad oder dem Editor) öffnen.
• MinClient=7233.0 ändern in MinClient=7000.0 und die Datei speichern.
• setup.exe im Verzeichnis der entpackten DVD starten.
• Bei entsprechender Aufforderung Upgrade wählen.

originele artikelen: http://gizmodo.com/5389945/how-to-upgrade-to-windows-7-retail-from-the-beta-or-release-candidate

en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_upgrade_windows_7_final_rc

Artikel:

Windows 7 Upgrade Guide for RC (Release Candidate) Users

For a lot of MaximumPC readers, the fuss over Windows 7 launch week might seem a little unwarranted—after all, many of you have been happily running Windows 7 for months now, so what’s so exciting about a retail launch? In fact, if you’re in that boat, the launch poses more of a hassle than anything else, since your free RC version of Windows 7 is closer than ever to shutting down. And when it does, you can’t even do an upgrade install of Windows 7, you have to either re-install Windows Vista first, or buy a standalone version of Windows 7.

Or do you? Even though Microsoft’s official stance is that you can’t upgrade from the Release Candidate to the RTM/Retail version of Windows 7, it’s actually possible to do so using a quick, easy hack. This means that you can use the cheaper upgrade version of Windows 7, and do a “Custom Upgrade” to get a clean install. Or, if you don’t mind the risk of additional headaches down the line, you can do an in-place upgrade from Windows 7 RC to RTM. Here’s how to do it, in 7 simple steps

Step 1

Insert your Windows 7 retail disc into your DVD drive. Make sure to put the 32-bit installer disc in if you’ll be installing 32-bit Windows and the 64-bit installer disc in if you’re installing 64-bit Windows. If you downloaded an ISO from TechNet, simply proceed to step two.

Step 2

Extract all the files from the DVD (or ISO) into a folder on your desktop.

Step 3

Open the folder you moved the files to, then open the “sources” directory.

Step 4

Using Notepad, open the “cversion.ini” file.

Step 5

This file specifies which versions of Windows are eligible to upgrade. Right now it says the minimum client version able to upgrade is 7233—change this to read 7000 and you’ll be able to upgrade the beta or RC to RTM.

Step 6

Save cversion.ini, overwriting the old file.

Step 7

Install Windows 7 using these modified installation files. The easiest way to do this is by following our boot from USB guide. If you want, it’s also possible to create a new installation disc from these files using the free burner ImgBurn. You can find a guide on how to do this here.

[Updated to include some great news on the evolution-rss bug. -Peng]

The Ubuntu devs released the beta of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” back on the first of the month (now available as a Release Candidate), and while I snagged the disk image pretty quickly it wasn’t until Friday a week ago that I was able to actually get a chance to fire up the LiveCD long enough to see how well it played with my system. I couldn’t find any major glitches in it other than a problem with my USB WiFi adapter, and I had already seen that people were having enough major issues with the combination that there was a request to change the status on the support for the adapter from some support to absolutely no support. Luckily I was already having enough connectivity issues with our Linksys WiFi router that I has already gone back to using the good, old-fashioned CAT 5 cable to connect to it.

After looking at a number of other items that are important to me I went to the page on the Ubuntu website about the 9.10 beta to check for any known issues that I needed to be aware of and decided it was an upgrade I could probably do safely. I ran command sudo do-release-upgrade -d with the Run Application (Alt-F2) tool, although you could also run it in the terminal, and waited the two hours plus while my system got upgraded. Your system may take the upgrade more quickly or more slowly than mine, but having done a clean installation for version 9.04 I decided I didn’t want to go through the hassle of having to reinstall every bloody app and tool I use this time around. I did notice a number of dbus errors during the upgrade and unfortunately I didn’t think to document what they were about. They may have had something to do with how long my upgrade took, but I hadn’t found any dbus issues connected with the upgrade so I have absolutely no clue what the errors should have told me.

Now that I’ve used and updating Karmic for just over a week I found some things that I want to point out, some good, some not so good.

Overall Thoughts

I kept seeing people say that the boot times for Ubuntu 9.10 are shorter and sure enough my boot time is shorter. Of course since the Ubuntu devs decided to switch from using Usplash for the initial boot splash to XSplash any Mac4Lin boot splashes would have been broken anyway (I never did get a Usplash working for Mac4Lin 1.0, much to may chagrin) but I have to say that I really do like the look of the new splash screens. The boot splash is a simple Ubuntu logo on a dark background, but I have to say the new XSplash is a thing of beauty. As you can see in a YouTube video posted on Softpedia’s article on the newly released Ubuntu 9.10 beta, it’s no longer a simple case of the Ubuntu logo and a progress bar. The Ubuntu logo is now suspended and lit by an overhead spotlight and the animated bar now scrolls up rather than going from left to right.

In addition, they’ve added the Ubuntu Software Center (USC) as a new tool for adding software to the usual collection of Synaptic and Add/Remove Software. When I first looked at it I thought, “So what? I can do the same thing with existing tools.” Except the UI for the USC makes it a lot handier than Add/Remove Software. You can either search for a specific app or browse through the library and when you find what you’re looking for you’re provided with a much nicer information screen complete with buttons to wither install the software as well as to go to the app’s website where you can get even more information. The information screen even lets you know the version that’s available, something that Add/Remove Software never had. Have software you installed from a Debian package (.deb)? The USC knows about the app (at least what the package told the system) and gives you a button to remove it. It may not always have the application’s icon, but that may be more of a limitation in the package itself. Yes, you can do all this via Synaptic, but not everyone’s all that comfortable with it.

The Good

For the most part I’m pretty happy with the upgrade. I won’t bore you with a ton of specifics or screenies (I’ll include a link to some screenshots I made at the end) but there are a few things that I noticed are definite improvements in the user experience for me. The first thing I noticed was a dialog that popped up on my first reboot after the upgrade was done. I knew my hard drives were getting a bit old in the tooth, but now I could see just how bad things are getting. I dismissed the dialog, but now when I boot up I get an icon in my notification area and when I click on it I get a helpful message. I can click on the message and get more information, and I know I need to replace that drive one of these days but now I know I need to do it sooner than later (picture). I can disable the message if I want, as I can for the warnings that I’m getting low on disk space on my partitions. Those warnings come up each boot, as well as when I’m working with videos and the available space gets too small. Yes, they can be a little annoying, but I haven’t decided to silence them just yet.

An even nicer improvement comes in the Update Manager. Now it lets you know the source for the particular updates, plus it flat-out gives you more information on the update, such as the version number. This is information that’s been missing from the Update Manager for as long as I’ve used Ubuntu.

Another small, yet a very nice set of improvements came in Evolution. The first is a better visual notification of new messages coming in. In the past when you fired up Evo you simply saw the folder names bold when you had unread messages, which is okay, unless you left some messages marked unread to follow-up on as I do. Now you’ll see that there’s a star on the folder that has brand new unread messages.

The other improvements come to those who use Evo as their RSS reader. Not only does Evo show the site icons for the folders with feeds where available (the other folders use the stock RSS feed icon), but on many sites you can now see the comments when you look at the article summaries. I’m not sure why they show up on some feeds and not others, but I have noticed that some feeds still show a count for the number of comments without actually showing the comments themselves. But it’s not all good news with Evo though.

There’s one more fan-damn-tastic improvement in Ubuntu 9.10 that I just discovered trying to get caught up on my RSS feeds: It’s a piece of baklava to enable using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to force a new X session. Just go to System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Layout Options. Then select Key Sequence to kill the X server and check Control + Alt + Backspace. That’s all it takes. Yooouge thanks to Panji Nushantara for pointing it out on his blog.

The Not So Good

First off all let me warn you about a potential deal breaker in the updated Evolution. If you’re like me and you use Evo for your RSS/ATOM feed reader you won’t want to grab the new Evo. The reason for this warning is the fact that for some unknown (to me) reason the evolution-rss plugin no longer works and no feeds are updated (filed as Bug #460462 with fixed link). Luckily you can export your feed list (Edit > Preferences > News and Blogs > Export) so you can migrate your subscribed feeds to another app like Liferea and hopefully not miss too many days’ posts. There’s also an advantage that Liferea has over Evolution’s RSS plugin: You can sort and rename your feed folders to your heart’s content without borking the feed settings, something that you can’t say about evolution-rss. Updated 26 October 4:00 pm: Thanks to some very quick work by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio the evolution-rss bug is already fixed. There’s a .deb package on comment #6 on the bug, or you can wait for it to be available through the Update Manager as it’s already been accepted for distribution.

There are more upgrades in Ubuntu 9.10 that aren’t such good news, and one that sticks out like a sore thumb on my system is the GNOME web browser, Epiphany. As I mentioned back in December I finally got tired of the decisions Firefox devs were making and switched to using Epiphany for my web surfing. There were two flavors of Epiphany, one using the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine and one using Webkit, but the Webkit version didn’t quite seem ready for prime time so I was using the Gecko version. It was great that I had the option and it allowed me the option of using a Gecko-based browser without dealing with what I thought were boneheaded UI decisions from Firefox devs. Unfortunately the Epiphany devs have stopped supporting the Gecko engine and since with the release of Epiphany 2.26.3 Epiphany/Gecko no longer exists, Epiphany/Gecko is simply not available in Ubuntu 9.10. You may think that’s not a big problem, except there are some basic behavior issues that no longer available.

There’s finally a semi-usable spell checker in Epiphany now. I saw semi-usable because if I select a correct spelling the misspelled word is deleted but not replaced with the correct spelling (filed as Bug #460450).

The biggest issue is that you can no longer right-click a link and select Open in New Tab from the context menu. You also can’t middle-click a link on every site and open it in a new tab, especially when the links are on a Google site like Gmail.

Another serious usability issue for me is that the extensions that I used don’t seem to work quite properly anymore. The biggest issue for me is the fact that my beloved New Blank Tab extension no longer seems to be working. I’m hoping someone will come along and fix it because while the Tab Foreground extension works it doesn’t let me open a new tab and go straight to the location bar so I can type (or paste) in a URI. This is a rather big pain in the arse, although not quite as big as the no middle-click issue.

Wallpaper Tray is another app that has broken in the upgrade. For some reason it flat out won’t launch on booting for some reason. I ended up switching to Desktop Drapes, which is a nice app that I can put right on my upper panel, but doesn’t have the hover feature of showing the path and filename for the current wallpaper like Wallpaper Tray does. Hopefully we can get that fixed before too long.

On the Whole

One the whole there are some nice benefits to the upgrade, as long as you don’t depend on the features I mentioned above. As I finally finish this post we have a mere four days before Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” is released, now may be a great time to snag the ISO for the Release Candidate and try it out on your own system. Remember, try the LiveCD before you make the upgrade, and look at every app that you use now to make sure the upgrade won’t bring bad news as I found. make sure you also read the overview before you make the upgrade for more information on what’s coming in the upgrade as well as the known issues.

Check out all of my Ubuntu 9.10 screenshots in my Picasa Web Album.

Karmic Upgrade screenies

The purpose of this post is to help you start with a copy of the Windows 7 RTM code and upgrade an existing installation, especially if you installed the Windows 7 release candidate.

Note that this is not a detailed how to – there’s plenty of those on the Web already, and anyway it’s really not that difficult. Instead, this is a list of some of the gotchas that could put a spoke in the smooth ride that Microsoft promises but so often fails to deliver. Rule one: be patient…

1. Copy the installation files onto your hard disk. It’s faster than installing from a DVD and allows you to make a small tweak that you’ll need if you’re upgrading from the Windows 7 RC (release candidate) as I did. Even better, install from a second hard disk or a USB stick, as this will speed things further.

2. Get a proper copy of the OS and check the files are all valid. If you don’t do this, you could get a third of the way through the process only for the installation process to throw up an error because it couldn’t read a file. That’s annoying.

3. If you’re upgrading from the release candidate of Windows 7, then you need to make a small alteration to \Sources\cversion.ini, as an in-place upgrade, as opposed to a fresh installation, is not officially supported. However, it does work without problems if you do the following:
i) Open cversion.ini with Notepad. This is what you’ll see:
[HostBuild]
MinClient=7233.0
MinServer=7100.0

ii) Alter the first line so it reads:
MinClient=7000.0

iii) Save the file. That’s it.

4. Start the installation and load up your patience.

5. After a few prompts, the system will tell you that it doesn’t need your attention: effectively, it’s telling you to go away and come back in a while. If you’re upgrading an existing installation, that timescale is longer than you think. I left it running overnight and it took over six hours to copy across an installation of several hundred gigabytes. Don’t be tempted to reboot if it seems to be doing nothing at the start of the ‘Transferring settings’ section.

6. If you do reboot before the process completes, check the logs in the c:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Panther folder, especially setupact.log, to find out why it failed. There’s a workaround available here for an installation that gets stuck around 61%-62%. The system should then roll back to your original OS – it worked three times for me after rebooting at different points in the installation process, despite the dire warnings about doing so.

7. Why might you want to do this?
i) Your Win7 RC licence key runs out in June 2010
ii) The release candidate manifested a few glitches
iii) The release candidate certainly included some debug code, slowing things down.

Each of these three reasons is a good one to get onto the RTM code asap – together they’re compelling. Unless of course you decide that Windows 7 is not for you and you want to go run Ubuntu…

Gestern, pünktlich zum Release von Windows 7, ist der Release Candidate von Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” erschienen.

Neuerungen gibts hier .

Bugs

• Benutzer, die LUKS (Festplattenverschlüsselung) nutzen (wollen), sollten auf die Final-Version (am 29. Oktober) warten.
• Benutzer, die Audio- und Videochat unter MSN mit Empathy nutzen (wollen), müssen eine spezielle PPA nutzen.

Download

• Ubuntu
  • Ubuntu Desktop-CD
  • Ubuntu Desktop-CD 64-bit
  • Ubuntu Alternate-CD
  • Ubuntu Alternate-CD 64-bit
• Kubuntu
  • Kubuntu Desktop-CD
  • Kubuntu Desktop-CD 64-bit
  • Kubuntu Alternate-CD
  • Kubuntu Alternate-CD 64-bit
• Xubuntu
  • Xubuntu Desktop-CD
  • Xubuntu Desktop-CD 64-bit
  • Xubuntu Alternate-CD
  • Xubuntu Alternate-CD 64-bit

Upgrade

Ein Upgrade von Ubuntu 9.10 wird durch Alt + F2 -> update-manager -d

Microsoft on the day of the launch sent out millions of mails to their Windows 7 followers. I also got one message that briefly described something like this:

We’ve reached the final milestone in our Windows 7 release schedule—general availability! Thank you all for the feedback you have provided during the Beta and Release Candidate processes. You have helped us make this the strongest Windows client operating system to date.

Also, to stay up to date on new resources, the latest guidance, and upcoming events, sign up to be a Springboard Series Insider!
Source: E-mail from Microsoft

Dies ist der Releaseplan für Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”:

03. Dezember 2009: Alpha 1

07. Januar 2010: Alpha 2

04. Februar 2010: Alpha 3

04. März 2010: Alpha 4

18. März 2010: Beta 1

08. April 2010: Beta 2

22. April 2010: Release Candidate

29. April 2010: Final

Hi,

die Release Candidate Version des Microsoft Forefront TMG ist nun verfügbar! Das schreibt Vladimir Holostov (Lead Program Manager, Release Manager for Forefront TMG 2010) im Artikel Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate Now Available.

Die RTM Version von Forefront TMG wird ziemlich wahrscheinlich zur TechEd EMEA 2009 in Berlin vorgestellt. Die finale Version in Englisch, Deutsch und Japanisch soll dann am 01.12.2009, in den weiteren acht Sprachen ab 15.12.2009 erhältlich sein. Neben den Standard- und Enterprise-Servervarianten wird es dann auch die sogenannte “Forefront TMG Web Protection Service Subscription” angeboten, mit der die Aktualisierungen für das URL-Filtering und das Antimalware-Scanning in einer Lizenz abgedeckt sind.

Download Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate

Na dann, Viel Spass beim selber Testen!
CU

The release candidate for the Windows Management Framework (WMF) is available…

What is WMF?

A collection of tools to help IT Professionals manage a mixed environment of Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP PCs and includes:

• Windows PowerShell 2.0
• Windows Remote Management 2.0
• Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS 4.0)

For specific details or to download the release candidate, click here.

Final release version WMF and the Platform Update available sometime in Q4 2009.

Hi,

das Forefront UAG hat gerade bekannt gegeben, dass Forefront UAG den Release Candidate Status 0 erreicht hat!

From the producers of Forefront UAG Beta, we’re proud to present you with (drum roll…)

Forefront UAG Release Candidate 0!!!

Over the last couple of months we’ve been listening to your feedback and working on incorporating it into UAG.

We put an increased focus into improving overall product quality, and streamlining and simplifying the initial deployment experience.

Here’s the shortlist of some highlights you’ll find in RC0:

• Import/Export – Use the new import/export capability to backup your configuration. You can even export an array configuration and import it into a standalone machine.
• SCOM – The UAG management pack monitors health aspects of critical components of UAG & DirectAccess services, enables centralized viewing of important UAG events and alerts on the SCOM console, and supports array-level views for easier monitoring of complex deployments.
• Simpler array management – Now it’s even simpler to deploy and manage your array from the Forefront UAG management console.
• Publishing Exchange – We added Web Services to the out-of-the-box publishing experience, with full support for NTLM and Kerberos authentication.
• Remote Desktop - Support for Remote Desktop publishing and single sign-on through the UAG portal.

And there is more, much more…

Forefront UAG RC0 will be available for download over the next couple of days. Stay tuned for more news and updates about the new release.

Der Download des UAG RC0 wird also in den nächsten Tagen verfügbar sein!

[UPDATE] Der Download des Forefront UAG RC 0 ist nun verfügbar!
Download Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) RC0

Some tips to get you started:

• Go over the release notes.
• Read the system requirements, installation guidelines, and the DirectAccess step-by-step installation instructions.
• Make sure you have Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM Standard or Enterprise version
• Start playing around and getting to know the new features using a single server, and afterwards scale up to multiple servers in an array.
• If you want to migrate a Beta 2 configuration to RC0, after running Setup, run the Microsoft patch file (.MSP) that’s included in the download.

[/UPDATE]

Na dann, Viel Spass beim selber Testen!
CU

Eu am instalat windows 7 inca din stadiul pre-beta si am fost uimit de cat de bine arata si cat de bine merge fata de Vista. Asta nu inseamna ca vista a fost prost. Am avut vista inca de cand a aparut pe dinozaurul meu preistoric si pot spune ca nu am avut probleme… mergea chiar mai bine decat xp-ul vecinilor care aveau avioane, insa cu windows 7 s-a vazut o mica mare diferenta. A fost dragoste la prima vedere. La fel ca si Edy care s-a indragostit de vista cand l-a vazut prima oara, apoi de windows 7. Dupa prima versiune de windows 7 (avuta de mine… parca buld 6801) am avut 69xx (nu maii stiu exact numerele).Parca tot versiunea 6801 i-am instalat-o si lu’ Edy. Astea l-am descarcat de pe  torrent… adica e cam imposibil sa fi fost invitat de Microsoft sa particip la teste. In ianuarie 2009 (parca pe 7) a aparut prima versiune Beta publica (build 7000) . Desi multi au zis ca e la fel ca 69xx tot am incercat-o. De data asta m-am inscris in beta si am descarcat-o de pe site-ul oficial. Apoi pana la RC am tot facut upgrade cu versiuni descarcate de pe torrent. Cu fiecare versiune noua, windows-ul era din ce in ce mai bun si aducea tot mai multe functii noi, mici modificari ale interfetei si multe altele. Cu RC-ul s-a intamplat la fel pana la RTM. Am luat varianta oficiala de pe site-ul microsoft (mai exact MSDN… build 7100) si apoi am tot upgradat cu variante mai noi descarcate din diverse surse. Windows 7 este cu mult mai bun decat vista. Mi-a placut inca de la inceput pentru ca:

• La instalare eu nu am instalat niciun driver, toate  fiind incluse;
• Ocupa mai putin spatiu;
• Porneste si se inchide mai rapid;
• “Mananca” mai putin ram;
• Noua interfata aero foarte utila (aero glass, aero peak etc… nu e doar eye candy ca in cazult vista);
• Este compatibil cu driverele si programele care mergeau pe vista (si chiar si cu cele care nu mergeau decat pe xp);
• XP Mode/Virtual XP;
• multe altele.

Celor care spuneau ca xp-ul este mai bun si ca vista nu le puneam intrebarea: “Ati incercat windows 7?”. Cei care m-au ascultat si au incercat au fost uimiti. Printre astia a fost nasu, un unchi su alte cateva persoane… Dintre cunoscuti-Ade, Edy si Gabi. Printre cele mai interesante noutati aduse sunt:

• Internet Explorer 8 (imi place functia InPrivare… cred ca va prindeti de ce)
• DirectX 11 (inca nu exista jocuri si placi video care sa suporte dx11… sunt curios care e diferenta intre dx10 si dx11… ma refer daca e vizibila)

• Windows Media Player 12 (in sfarsit memoreaza ulimele melodii ascultate… ceva gen winamp… porneste cu lista goala dar poti da back si apar ultimele chestii vazute/ascultate)

• AERO imbunatatit (pe langa faptul ca e kinky acum e si util)
• Compatibilitatea cu programele vechi (pentru asta merita facut upgrade de la xp/vista la 7)
• Bara de activitati (SuperBar… quick launch-ul din 95… cred… de 98 sunt sigur… a disparut… oricum nu il foloseam… quick launch+taskbar=super bar)
• Usurinta configurarii retelei (accesarea retelelor wi-fi se face MULT mai usor)
• Homegroup-ul mult mai usor de configurat

• Consum mai redus (o functie interesanta la laptop-uri este “dim the light” care este identica cu reducerea luminozitatii dupa ce nu a mai fost folosit un timp la telefoane… ar fi buna si in cazul lcd-urilor o chestie ca asta)
• Wordpad/Paint seamana cu office 2010, si au unele functii noi.

• Calculatorul mai “dăştept” (oricum nu il prea foloseam… dar e interesant… azi am aflat ca pot calcula diferenta de date… si am aflat ca am 16 ani; 10 luni; 3 săptămâni; 4 zile… sau mai bine: 6173 zile)

• Windows Action Center (windows security center imbunatatit)
• Si altele dar mi-e lene sa mai scriu

PS. Acest articol a fost scris pentru a ma inscrie intr-un concurs. Cei care au mai incercat windows-ul… lasati un comentariul pe site-ul concursului sau postati o mica povestire care va incepe cu “Eu am instalat windows 7 si…” Stiu ca povestea nu e asa “cool” cum se cere… dar nu ma pricep la povesti

Update.1 Pentru cei ce vor sa-l testeze… aici gasiti variant finala a windows 7 enterprise, gratuita 90 de zile. Va faceti cont > descarcati > incercati… e free

2. Unde naiba e “invert colors” in paint? Am avut nevoie azi (30-IX-2009) de functia asta si n-o gasisi. Sunt eu chior sau chiar nu mai exista?

While it may not come with much fanfare, on September 1st Opera 10 will be released to the masses.  The question isn’t whether it will be any good, Opera has been a  solid browser for years.  The question is, if a browser is released and nobody notices, is it really released at all?

Opera 10, codenamed Peregrine, has an improved UI, increased support for Web Standards, new tools for web developers and perhaps most important of all……Opera Turbo, the new bandwidth booster for slow internet connections.  That alone should be enough to have more people try it out, I mean it is free right, so you have nothing to lose.  With only about 2% of the browser market in its grasp Opera has a long way to go and I’m not sure whether they will ever get there, although it’s certainly not for a lack of trying.

You can read more about it at techcrunch.com.

Microsoft sagt wieder einmal, dass es nicht möglich ist, ein Upgrade vom Windows 7 Release Candidate auf die fertige Verkaufsversion (Windows 7 RTM) durchzuführen. Wie erwartet ist es aber dennoch möglich! Und zwar durch die simple Änderung einer einzigen Datei, die auf der Installations-DVD zu finden ist.

Hinweis: Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate) ist eine Vorab-Version. Bei Windows 7 RTM (Ready to Manufacturing) handelt es sich um die tatsächliche Verkaufsversion.

So wird aus Windows 7 RC ohne Neuinstallation des Betriebssystems Windows 7 RTM…

• Installations-DVD auf der Festplatte entpacken.
• Verzeichnis der entpackten DVD öffnen und in den Unterordner sources browsen.
• Dort dann die Datei cversion.ini (zB mit Notepad oder dem Editor) öffnen.
• MinClient=7233.0 ändern in MinClient=7000.0 und die Datei speichern.
• setup.exe im Verzeichnis der entpackten DVD starten.
• Bei entsprechender Aufforderung Upgrade wählen.

Beim Installationsvorgang erscheint möglicherweise eine Meldung, die auf Kompatibilitäsprobleme hinweist. Diese ist jedoch getrost zu ignorieren, da die meisten dieser angeführten Programme trotz Meldung funktionieren werden!

Viel Spaß beim Upgraden!

A Adobe liberou hoje uma versão “candidata” do Camera RAW a se tornar oficial: ACR 5.5.

Nela está incorporado suporte a 26 novos modelos de câmeras e back digitais. São eles:

• Nikon D300s
• Nikon D3000
• Olympus E-P1
• Panasonic DMC-FZ35

A versão “Release Candidate”indica que foi testada e aprovada, porém não finalizada!

Clique aqui para ir a página de dowload.

A Adobe liberou hoje uma versão “candidata” do Camera RAW a se tornar oficial: ACR 5.5.

Nela está incorporado suporte a 26 novos modelos de câmeras e back digitais. São eles:

• Nikon D300s
• Nikon D3000
• Olympus E-P1
• Panasonic DMC-FZ35

A versão “Release Candidate”indica que foi testada e aprovada, porém não finalizada!

Clique aqui para ir a página de dowload.