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We are pleased to announce the release of our first update to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008  (MDT 2008).  We have added two major features:  OEM preload scenarios for Lite Touch  I nstallation and Zero Touch Installation with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and a new management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1.  Minor updates include bug fixes and design changes to override driver platforms as well as the ability to inject all drivers into Windows PE.     Get MDT 2008 Update 1 and the new Quick Start Guides from the   Download Center  . All of the latest documentation can be found within  updated and  searchable help files.  However, if you would like a full collection of the Word documents, download it   here  .
I mentioned that I've been given some bits and pieces from some old knit stashes... a few interesting books, some needles, and some yarn.  This was in one of the bags.      I'm guessing by the price ($3.79) that it dates to the 1980s.  And it's awful.  In so many ways, it's awful.  Oh, the colour is nice -- simple, clear white.  No issues with that.  And it looks pretty good -- a mohairy sort of thing.  I like a good mohair.  Here's what's awful about it.... look at the back of the label.       Let me count the ways.  There's the fibre content -- 36% Acrylic, 30% Viscose, 24% Mohair and 10% Nylon.  And yet even with all that, they demand it be washed by hand.  Then I look for the normal info I'm used to finding on a yarn label... a gauge, maybe?  Yardage info?  There's nothing.  Yeah, ok, a suggested needle size -- which in itself is sorta an odd one.  I wonder how much of the fall in popularity of knitting in the 1970s and 80s can be blamed on this sort of idiocy?  If you don't provide gauge or yardage, you are dooming this yarn to be used only for the patterns published, for all but the most adventurous of knitters.  I can sort of understand a yarn company wanting to drive more sales of their own patterns, but knitters like to have options.  Knitters want to be able to fall in love with a yarn and find a pattern that suits their own tastes.  And to be limited to the handful of patterns that are published by the yarn company seems just frustrating.   Not to mention foolish as a sales strategy.  A darker, less helpful time.
The CAFC noted:  In this case, the district court denied the preliminary injunction because the  patentee failed to show a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits.  (...) After reviewing  the intrinsic record, we cannot conclude that the district court  abused its discretion.  The district court found that a question exists regarding whether  “the very character of the invention requires direct gearing and a non-rotatable piston  rod,” id. at 35, a finding which, at this stage of the proceedings and on this record, we  do not view to be clearly erroneous.   Tate Access was quoted:  While it is true that many of the  substantial questions identified by the district court would ultimately be analyzed in the  context of construing the claims, some might more appropriately be analyzed in the  context of validity (i.e., written description and enablement).  See, e.g., Tate Access  Floors, Inc. v. Interface Architectural Res., Inc., 279 F.3d 1357, 1372 (Fed. Cir. 2002)  (“[W]here claim language is clear we must accord it full breadth even if the result is a  claim that is clearly invalid.”).
If you’re mildly disorganized (you know, like me.  You should see my desk!) then putting together a proper itinerary can be a bit of a disaster.  If you find yourself armed with five print-outs of flight, hotel, car rental, and visiting information on top of a piece of notepaper with your own chicken scratch scrawls all over it, you might end up wonder what you’re actually doing, when you’re going, and how you’re ever going to find your way there.
Like the other network morning shows, NBC’s Today on Friday took exception to John McCain’s ad mocking Barack Obama’s celebrity, featuring very brief pictures of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Matt Lauer suggested it was "bizarre" and said it was "a new and some would say very negative ad from John McCain." Meredith Vieira agreed, suggesting it was "over the top" and saying "the ad suggests that Obama is just like these two celebutantes, more style than substance." In an interview with McCain aide Nicolle Wallace and Obama aide Robert Gibbs, Matt Lauer told Wallace the ad was "much more personal and demeaning" than Hillary Clinton’s "It's 3 AM" ad, and after Wallace replied, he repeated it was "demeaning."   But Lauer asked Gibbs about whether it could become a negative that Obama draws adoring crowds: "So this issue of celebrity, what we're saying is there's all this raw excitement. There's this screaming and cheering. Hundreds of thousands of people turning out at these events and maybe they're trying to touch on this. Is there a possibility and a fear on your part that celebrity starts to overwhelm the message, or become the message itself?"
Santa Monica-based GumGum, a provider of technology for licensing content and images online, said Thursday that it has raised a Series A round of financing. The round was co-led by First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures. Along with the financing, Howard Morgan of First Round Capital, and Brian Garrett of Crosscut Ventures have both joined the firm's board of directors. This is the first investment of Crosscut Ventures, which was founded by Garrett and Rick Smith, both formerly venture capitalists at Palomar Ventures. The firm said the new funding will go towards Version 2 of the firm's product. Amont of the new round was not disclosed.    READ MORE>>
Filed under:  Game Night        Update: The staff has left the Game Night chat. If you're still looking to get your game on, then we suggest you  still give it a try . There is likely some folks still lingering around in there.   Welcome one and all to the return of Game Night. Sorry we had to call off the affair for the past couple weeks, but we've been pretty busy on our end. Not busy enough to get things back to the way they were, though! So, be sure to join us this evening for the awaited return of Game Night!   For the full details on what Game Night is all about, head past the break.  Welcome to  Game Night , a fun activity where we (the staff) and you (the reader) get together and enjoy the multiplayer games available on the Nintendo Wii and DS. Every Thursday night at 7pm ET, we get together with you to enjoy multiplayer gaming on Nintendo platforms. We meet in a chat room (which you can access by clicking here) and, after exchanging a few friend codes, we get our game on. Sounds simple enough, right?  It is! All you need to do is look for this post to be at the top of the page around 7pm ET tonight, and there'll be a big link in the post, informing you all that Game Night is a go. Click that link, then you're in. Or, you can just click the chat room link above and hang out for awhile. We'll be there around 7pm ET.  Thanks to everyone for participating and we hope to see you there tonight!        Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments                          Ads by Google
Toon Thursday is going to be a bit late today. It will still technically be Thursday PST, but it may be Friday in some places by the time I get it posted. This week has included some unexpected activity--friend drama, car drama, and lots of good old-fashioned work. Anyway, in the meantime, enjoy these links.    Teen Ink  is "a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing and art." It's distributed in classrooms, but is also available online, so go check it out. It's been around since 1989, and is produced by a non-profit group called the Young Authors Foundation, Inc. For a free sample of the print issue,  go here .  It looks like a great chance for young artists and writers to get their work out there--makes me wish the internets were all fancy like that when I was a teen. Sadly, they were not. I remember going to a study group at a friend's house when I was a junior, and he was SO EXCITED because his family had just gotten Prodigy, which at that time was not much more than a series of tubes that you could use to send e-mail.   Anyway, for more reading pleasure, check out the latest issue of  Readergirlz , which is all about body image; or cruise by  Guys Lit Wire  for this week's reading suggestions. Lastly, there's a nifty book trailer for  Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter  featuring some D.M. Cornish artistic goodness, and a contest over at  Chronicle Books  for girls who want to win a Hello Kitty fender guitar in honor of the  Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls . Personally, I'm not so sure about the Hello Kitty part, but winning a guitar? Coolness.      This work is copyrighted material.  Please contact the weblog owner for further details.
The boy with two birthdays was born on both December 6 and December 7. As with so many questions that perplex not him but those who feel they must render verdicts, the date depends on who defines birth,   which would seem to be a settled subject but which wiggles like our hero’s ears when he gets a new idea. His mother was unconscious throughout the adventure, while instruments monitoring the unborn fetus-boy during Mom’s long coma first chirped to signal a startlingly elevated heart rate from within the womb, then went silent as his noble heart slowed, then chirped again and repeated for hours in what came to be known throughout the hospital as baby labor. The boy was pushing. How else to explain it? He had turned himself the night before and now, not patient for Mother to dilate, he was screwing his own head through the canal. No one else had a role to play, so they worried or placed bets. Toward midnight, the coronation hour, he crowned. He poked his head out into the wide white world. He coughed once to clear his lungs, wiggled his ears and screamed. Almost immediately, he was back inside and nothing, and no one, could coax him into the world. He turned himself and clung, one imagines, to the ribs. He kicked at the forceps time and again and either his first scream echoed through the ward or he was screaming still from where he would not leave. He was polite, reticent, when they cut him out early on the seventh, but through the years he has never stopped thinking of this immaterial world as a place from which to be delivered. If he teaches us anything, which would seem to be a settled subject, we will follow his lead.   Copyright © May 28, 2008 David Hodges
MA beat the street’s estimate by 9cents, but the market decided to take it down hard.  Yesterday was interesting for the credit card transaction companies.  Visa reported a solid number, and numbers caused V and MA to shoot up in after hours.  Master Card produced similar solid numbers, and the street had no mercy.   Those preaching MA was due for a hit because ‘the stock got ahead of itself’, IMO, are not correct.  Visa is much more expensive than MA on a PEG basis, yet MA took the bigger hit today. Kinda throws the ‘expensive’ arguement out the window. Visa has a right to be at a premium given its huge market share, but growth causes premium, not market share.
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Team Foundation Server (TFS) comes with standard reports for the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).  You may have seen these reports and would like to customize them or create new ones.   The best way to learn to create and customize TFS reports is to read this MSDN   posting   and follow the tutorial closely.  One point to note, you would need the SQL Server Client Tools - Business Intelligence Development Studio.   You would discover you can create almost any kind of reports you desire, for example, including reports from other Team Projects, adding more than 1 graph in a report etc.
with a name like i-dola, Lulu pities the people in charge of branding and marketing.    Come on-lah... what is dola known for? Sleepy head, not very bright, saying hadhari this and that without truly experiencing it, loves luxuries and high praises.  Gosh... how-lah to market this i-dola?  Knowing the Malaysia Boleh spirit, the government will make it a Malaysia Paksa policy.  Remember the Proton Perdana policy?  To ensure that this  Mak Cik  project does not fail, Lulu foresees these i-dola and jean-i being forced upon the teachers and students.  The only good thing is that since it has been announced that the PC and notebook costs RM500 and RM1000 respectively, the favoured crony suppliers will not be able to mark it up like what they did in the previous laptops for teachers exercise. However, Lulu has to bear in mind that they could park their exorbidant profits under something like service and maintainance.    sigh... the rakyat just can't win in Malaysia.
About the topic of"Predestination",i have so many words.I think in the important periods of my life,the predestination doesn't favour me a lot.Such as the examination i entered the university,the examination i entered the high school,i always do not own a good luck at the important time.Even i went to the society,i have my job,i always lose extreme good orppotunity.i always devote much more effort than the others,then i will own a better result.My guardians tell me"To be good,my kid",they will protect me and try their efforts to offer me opportunities.They always tell me what i should do ,what i should not do.
Ray Beckerman, as you may already know, is a lawyer in New York who not only has defended numerous people against RIAA lawsuits, but also runs the  Recording Industry vs. The People blog , where he chronicles what's going on in these cases.  While I believe he sometimes pushes the envelope  too far  in his claims about what the RIAA is doing, there's no denying that he's been a tremendous force in shining some much needed light on some of the RIAA's more questionable activities, while also helping those who are severely outgunned in various lawsuits.
If you're like me and you've been using a computer for the last 12 years then you know that mouse ergonomics is very important. I guess that's why  Mizanur Rehman  has tried to design the perfect mouse. It's called the Alien Mouse and apart comfort it offers a futuristic design, being build of soft gel and cellulose. My kind of mouse :)       It has a sphere-shaped section at the top, that never has to be moved, pointer navigation is done by a central joystick, which is placed between the left and right buttons and adds great functionality.       Too bad we don't have a release date or a price by now. We'll keep you posted because it's really wicked.
I was a medic for a whole lot of years - both on an ambulance and in a moderately busy ER.  I've seen things and cleaned things that are, basically, untellable and unimaginable.  And yet, reading   this story   sent chills through my spine.  I've seen decapitations -  they're not pretty.  In fact, they're probably the single most horrible sight in the world - and the thought of some mother, someone like me, someone like you, someone like  us  - sitting by the side of some dark road holding her baby's severed head in her lap - and then refusing to give it up - and then finally handing it to the baby's uncle so she can tend to her remaining family members, each of whom was also terribly injured - my mind just shuts down.    What this woman will relive - what her family will relive - what the medics and firefighters and police officers will relive each and every day of their lives is almost more than I can bear to even imagine.  And all because some 24 year old man got drunk and got into his car and turned the key and drove away.    Two of his victims lost their lives instantly.    One man lost a leg.  One man broke his back.  Several others suffered numerous and severe injuries.  And one young mother, sitting in the dirt on the side of a road, got to kiss the severed head of her 7 year old daughter good-bye.    He got 18 years in jail.    He's appealing his sentence.  They're stuck with theirs.  Don't drive drunk.  Please don't drive drunk.
Well, my idea has turned out to be a good one! Having Landon here has been so much fun for not only George (Granddad), but me too. We're all having a good time.        While George was at physical therapy this morning,   I taught Landon to play Mexican Train Dominoes. I taught him so well, he won the first five games in a row!         And he did a wild and crazy happy dance after each win. He kept saying "I'm really good at this!". He's so modest...just like his Granddad!         Tonight the three of us went to see   Wall.E  . What a cute, cute movie! We thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazingly, George was able to sit through the whole movie, but by the time it was over, his leg was giving him fits again.         As we were leaving the theatre, I snapped this photo of Landon with Wall.E and Eve.         And another one of Landon with the Incredible Hulk. Landon's pretty tall, but the Hulk is  HUGE!         We stopped by his favorite place for dinner. Can you believe an 8 year old boy can eat 4 tacos? I couldn't, but he definitely can. I haven't had a taco in a very long time, but I actually enjoyed it.         After a soak in the whirlpool, George felt good enough to play a few games of Mexican Train before Landon's bedtime. Being the modest person I am (wink), I don't mind telling you...I won both games.        ~~~~~~     George has his appointment with his doctor in the morning. Hopefully, the MRI results will let us know what's going on.           From Kat
by: John Yan NEWS -  Engadget 's got a few links to HP and Dell websites showing you which laptops are affected by the NVIDIA mobile GPU overheating problem. Laptops can get mighty hot and even the mine with the ATI Mobility chipset gets pretty toasty when playing games. I can only imagine how hot the NVIDIA ones get to make it shut down. NVIDIA's been having some rough times lately with AMD coming on strong with their Radeon 4850 and Radeon 4870 cards. Now they seem to have problems with a large portion of their mobile GPUs out in the wild. Were you affected by one of the faulty NVIDIA chips? Comment
I'm using an Internet terminal here in the Honolulu International Airport and it must be the cheapest Internet available in any airport anywhere: $0.20 per minute.  That's right, just twenty cents per minute!  (It saves me the trouble of taking my laptop out of my bag.)  Theoretically, in forty-five minutes I will leave this land of Paradise and depart for the Windy City where, God willing, I will catch a train just two hours after landing to Effingham.  I hope my flight will be on time.  If not, I'll have to find something to do in Chicago until 8:15 p.m.  Or somehow find a car rental that will allow me to leave their car in Effingham, though I've not yet had any luck with such a search.  Last night I was working on a blog post concerning my prayer at the tomb of Blessed Father Damien of Molokai (which will be finished during the flight) and I wrote that I was "content" ("ready" is perhaps too strong of a word) to leave Hawaii.  I was quite truthful when I wrote those words yet today my heart is heavy and I do not want to leave.  The weather is gorgeous, the people are wonderful, the Faith is strong and vibrant here.  And my fingers have returned to looking "normal."  I can actually put all of my fingers together; the swelling is gone.  But it shall soon return.  And I shall soon return to Effingham.  Please pray for a safe flight.  I don't expect the landing will be as smooth as Captain Callahan's yesterday.  Mahalo, and God bless you.
The 24 hours leading up to E3 make my inbox scream for mercy. Wave upon wave of press releases, trailers (but you can't put them up now!) and batches of screenshots drop from the virtual sky until it all becomes a blur. In the evening when I should have been considering a supper I never ate, an announcement that  Deep Silver Co-Signs Publishing Agreement with Ap , huh? Being the good little press person I am I look a little closer. Ap = Apogee software in this case. Ok, cool. Deep Silver are the Chernobyl guys. Apogee? Rings a bell...from the 90s - shooters like  Wolfenstein , right? Man, I'm hungry... knock at the door, my writers have arrived!
When you work for an international company you must develop an increased awareness for the holidays and celebrations in other countries. As American’s we are used to the banking-type holidays, when the banks, the post office, government buildings and sometimes school will all be closed for the day. Then there are the cultural holidays, like Mother’s Day, Flag Day, even Thanksgiving, that are celebrated in America on certain dates but perhaps not observed in other countries on the same dates, if at all.   A good example is Father’s Day. In America, Canada, and the U.K. we all honor our fathers by celebrating Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June, every year. However, in Australia,  Fathers Day  is celebrated on the first Sunday in September.
A HUMILIATED  Kevan Gosper  has accused the International Olympic Committee of betrayal, condemning the world sporting body for striking a secret deal with China to censor the international media during the Beijing Games.       A red-eyed and crestfallen Gosper, a senior IOC member for 31 years, told The Australian that both his reputation and that of the controversy-plagued IOC had been seriously dented by China's decision to restrict internet access for journalists covering the Games.
Local filmmaker Jim Exton is blogging about a short film he's making in the  next couple of weeks.  It is his first time working with someone else's  script and his first time shooting in 35mm.             www.jim-exton.blogspot.com   Here's a sample from Jim's journal:     I was reviewing the schedule today. The three feature films I have produced all had 14 days schedules for what ended up being a 90 minute film. Word of advice to you: don't do that.  Unless your whole film takes place in 1 room.  For this film, I have a four day shoot to do about 11 scenes. The good thing is there are only three locations. And there are no company moves (when you pack up during the day and move to another location).  So to me, this schedule is luxurious. Part One is above. Usually you work a 10 to 12 hour day on a film. It is not uncommon to work up to 15 hours a day or more. Not me. I hate it. I sleep 12 hours a day, so you do the math. Around the 9 hour mark, I am going to be the first one bitching to go home.