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Will Your Clients’ PCs Run Windows Vista?
Not all PCs will gain a full view of Windows Vista. Microsoft Corp. has yet to finalize the minimum requirements for a PC to run its forthcoming operating system. But numerous PC industry watchers predict a dichotomy for the OS, which is due in late 2006. Although it will be able to run on all…
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TimeLab’s Chip Tunes PC Performance
Timing is everything when it comes to wringing the most out of a PC. TimeLab Corp., a 4-year-old Andover, Mass., startup founded by researchers from Zoran Corp., a maker of chips for products such as DVD drives, is expected to later this month unveil TotalClock, a digital clock chip it says replaces the traditional timing…
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Control Freak: Creating a C# Login User Control
Bigger projects often benefit by being modularized, and .NET gives you more ways to do this than does ASP. You could do a fairly good job modularizing an ASP application with subroutines, functions, and includes, but at some point you’ll find yourself forced to mix the server side code with HTML code. While mixed code…
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Sonic’s New Burner Software Adds DRM
Sonic Solutions, a digital media software company specializing in professional product groups, consumer applications and advanced technology licensing, released the newest edition of its AuthorScript Advanced Music SDK (software development kit) today. AuthorScript Advanced Music adds a number of features to the existing line of download- and- burn solutions, created for license to online music…
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Developers Get New Tools for Vista
Along with the release of the new Windows Vista beta, developers are being treated to technologies to create applications for the new operating system. Microsoft Corp. last week gave developers access to the WinFX Runtime Components Beta 1 and the WinFX SDK (Software Development Kit). The WinFX SDK contains documentation, samples and tools designed to…
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Developers Tools Are Never Good Enough
It’s often said, and I agree, that “‘Better’ is the enemy of ‘good enough’”–but I’m not prepared to declare myself the loyal ally of one or the other. There are times when I’m prepared to hold the line against the assault of “better,” but there are also times when “good enough” really is not. Developer…
