Here another free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft, by Katherine Murray. The ebook contains eight chapters and an appendix describing how you can assess and build your technology-based job skills.
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Here a link to a free eBook on Microsoft SQL server 2008 r2
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FIX IT CENTER is a new location to help users get quick fixes to common problems. It is currently in a ‘soft launch’ beta stage.
Release site: http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com
Product info page: http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal/WhyFixIt
Getting started information: http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal/GetStarted
vChat agent for frequently asked questions: http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal/AskFixit
The scope of this first release is limited to client versions of Windows XP. Vista, and Windows 7 only (includes Media player and IE).
The release is available in 6 languages (English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, and German).
Remember Microsoft also has free support for Virus, Malware, and Failed service packs by calling 1-866-pc safety
Registration is now open for first Windows Summit this May in Redmond
We would like to invite you and others in your community to explore in-depth how Window 7 and Internet Explorer can help you provide great solutions for your customers at our first Windows Summit!
Windows Summit 2010 runs May 25-27 at the Microsoft Conference Center on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, WA and is designed for people who engineer and test Windows 7 PCs, devices, and software. We will offer three technical tracks to help you create the best systems, devices, and software using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer:
· System Track – includes sessions on optimizing performance and energy efficiency, tips and tricks to implement touch-enabled PCs, user experience design guidance, Windows Logo Program, and image creation and deployment.
· Device Track – offers sessions on Windows 7 Device Experience, the Windows Device Logo Program process, and how to use the Windows 7 platform to create a custom device experience.
· Software Track – provides sessions on touch, the Windows desktop, libraries, the Windows Sensors and Location platform, Windows Error Reporting, and building rich web applications using Internet Explorer.
· Besides networking with Microsoft technical experts and leaders at breakout sessions and chalk talks, we will have an Ask the Experts and social evening, all starting with an opening keynote by Michael Angiulo, General Manager of Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem Teams.
Register and get more information on Windows Summit 2010 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-summit/default.aspx.
"Microsoft announces U-Prove technology, an advanced form of cryptographic protocols and tokens when combined with information cards, enables people to disclose a minimal amount of identifying information to access applications and services."
Microsoft Corporation, 2010
U-Prove, a privacy-enhancing security technology, helps address people’s need to protect their identity-related information. U-Prove tokens make it possible for people to disclose minimal amounts of identifying information when they can access applications and services. At Microsoft, we are taking an initial step to make the U-Prove technology available to the public and interested parties.
First, we have partially opened up the U-Prove intellectual property with a cryptographic specification under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP). Two open source software toolkits are being donated —C# and Java editions—so the broadest audience of commercial and open source software developers can access the technology.
Second, we released a public Community Technology Preview (CTP), which is an integration of the U-Prove technology with the Microsoft identity platform technologies. The purpose of the CTP is to gather feedback from the technical community on the technology.
Although this release is a community preview, the U-Prove technology is especially important for enhancing the security and privacy of e-government initiatives and national ID programs. To demonstrate how minimal disclosure works, Microsoft has partnered on a project with Fraunhofer FOKUS, a research institute that hosts the German government’s eID (electronic identification) system, which will begin to roll out electronic identity cards to citizens in 2010. The project brings together the legal, privacy, and technology aspects of the eID system and extends them into a university setting, featuring key capabilities of Microsoft’s identity platform, information cards, and U-Prove tokens.
to see video go here
This is a SHARE THIS PAGE from Microsoft.
The first step is to find out which version of the Windows operating system am I running? and what if you installed Service Packs.
Click the Start button, type winver in the search box, and then press Enter
This window displays the version and edition of Windows you’re running. Each version of Windows comes in different editions with different features. This window also displays a service pack number if your version of Windows has been upgraded with a service pack.
You need at Service pack 1 or higher is you do not update you Vista you will have an unsupported Windows Version
An unsupported version of Windows will no longer receive software updates from Windows Update. These include security updates that can help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, which can steal your personal information. Windows Update also installs the latest software updates to improve the reliability of Windows—new drivers for your hardware and more.
You should always install the latest service packs from Microsoft for your version of Windows. You can download and install these through Windows Update.
Just found this you can download a FREE Windows Server 2008 R2 E-Book today! This is the Microsoft press book written by Charlie Russell and Craig Zacker This guide is a 200 page. This books covers how to get you up to speed on how R2’s new features and including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, and IIS.
Get the E-book Here
Here are some video on HPC that I found on the Microsoft site
HPC R2 Demo:New heat map and Location –based node Management
In this short video (7 min.), Cathy Palmer, lead PM in the HPC team, demonstrates some of the new features for managing and monitoring large-scale clusters with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 1.
See it here
HPC R2 Demo: New diagnostics extensibility features
In this video, Rae Wang, a PM in the HPC team, demonstrates the new features for adding custom diagnostics tests to a cluster running the Beta 1 release of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.
See it here
Ryan Baker, UX Researcher in the HPC team, demonstrates the new UI changes in the Beta 1 release of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 for job progress and job troubleshooting. He also demonstrates how the new service-balanced scheduling policy works in this release. This demo was recorded during the SC 09 conference in Portland.
See it here
HPC Templates with Josh Barnard
HPC PM Josh Barnard discusses how to use templates in High Performance Computing. Job templates provide a way to control the job submission process—partitioning the cluster, prioritizing the jobs, and limiting the resources used by jobs. They let the IT administrator specify different handling for different types of jobs. For the user, job templates provide a way to easily submit a job without having to obtain an in-depth understanding of how the Job Scheduler works.
See it here
I just found some new tools for integrating SharePoint and HPC (High Performance Computing) on Microsoft here, the docs are here.
HPC Pack 2008 Integration with SharePoint document.
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows HPC Server 2008
This section includes information about using the HPC Pack 2008 SharePoint Integration Sample. The sample includes Web Parts that a SharePoint Server 2007 administrator can install on the server. A SharePoint site administrator can use the HPC Web Parts to create a Web-based interface to a Windows® HPC Server 2008 cluster.
You can download the sample at HPC Pack 2008 SharePoint Integration Sample.
In this section:
On the Microsoft download you can find the;
HPC Pack 2008 SP1 SDK Supplement: SharePoint Integration Sample includes a set of SharePoint Web Parts (in a SharePoint solution file) that adds a job submission interface for a Windows HPC Server 2008-based cluster. You can add the Web Parts to an existing site hosted in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to provide a Web-based interface for HPC users. The sample also includes the source code as an example for developers who want to modify the Web Parts or develop new Web Parts to access the cluster.
For detailed information about the sample Web Parts and system requirements, steps for deploying the solution file, specifying the head node, creating a SharePoint site that uses the HPC Web Parts, and troubleshooting
You can get it here
Download Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2
To download the Beta 2 release of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, you must be registered on the Microsoft Connect site for the Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta Program: After you join the program, you can download Beta 2.
On the HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta Program site, click Downloads on the left pane to go to the Downloads page. On the Downloads page, you can find:
I recently got a notice for a bank I deal with the they wanted to verify a charge I did, to protect my identify. But this is where it get stupid.
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They send me a e-mail
If you look at the link
Transaction Authorized - it links to https:// activityconfirmation.chase.com/p/Chase_Fraud_RTM/ProdResponseHash?seq=&resp=Y
Note: Real sequence number has been changed to protect data
Upon clicking the link, the next site I see
activityconfirmation.chase.com and then get redirected to
https:// profile.na.epidm.net/ChaseRTM/HandleResponse.aspx?skey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxd&curres=Y
Note:Real sequence number has been changed to protect data
Who Is profile.na.epidm.net ??? and the web site has broken links on it !
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So I call Chase and they do not know who epidm.net is but they say contact Abuse @ Chase.com so i do
and this is the best part
the reply is
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Hello,
Thank you for forwarding your recent e-mail to our Abuse mailbox. We have reviewed the message and it is a valid notification from us regarding Urgent Chase Confirmation ?
Recent transaction for account ending in xxxx. If you have any questions or concerns about this e-mail, please contact us at 1-877-CHASEPC. Thanks for choosing Chase.
Thank you,
Email Customer Service Representative
email address abuse9@cigpopmail.bankone.net
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So not I get reply from not Chase but another company and they do not understand why I think their security stinks.
I then call Chase and after speaking to 20 people i get—you guessed, it no it not a issue.
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Why the Chase Bank does not understand is it not good to deal with a bank you redirects you to 3 different domains and they think that fine.
My warning is to deal with banks who understand security and practice it. Do not use a bank if they do not understand on-line security. Sorry Chase you lost me as a customer.