Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgrades by ZDNet‘s Ed Bott — On Wednesday, FedEx delivered DVDs containing the final, RTM bits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to three ZDNet bloggers. My colleagues posted their results (and in one case an extensive correction). Here’s my report: Six successful installations, with no problems to report.
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Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes by ZDNet‘s Ed Bott — How many bug fixes are included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1? By Microsoft’s count, SP1 rolls up 551 separate hotfixes, in addition to 23 security updates rated Important and already delivered via Windows Update. A handful of those hotfixes were previously released via Windows Update, but most were available only to corporate customers and OEMs. If that sounds like a lot, well, it is. But it’s not out of line with the number of fixes that went into the first two service packs for Windows XP. I’ve got the full breakdown by category.
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Here is how to copy the required number of lines from one file to another in VI editor. First
use the following key combinations in the source file.
Press ESCAPE
Press Shift “(Shift double quotes)
Press a
Press the number of lines you want to copy
press y followed by another y
Now press ” : ” (
Hit e “Destination file name”
Once you enter the Destination file
go to the line where you want the lines
copied to be inserted.
Press ESCAPE.
Press SHIFT “(Double quotes).
Press a.
Press p.
The lines get copied.
Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born by ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley — Move over, Microsoft Singularity. There’s another microkernel, C#-based operating system in town. And this one’s available under an open-source license.
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Google launches free Team Edition of Apps by ZDNet‘s Dan Farber — Google continues its quest to expand the Google Apps universe with a new Team Edition that makes it easy for workgroups to sign up for Google Apps without burdening IT departments or the lone IT support person. “In previous versions of Google Apps, Standard and Premier, the IT department had to get involved in verifying domains […]
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A Survey of Common Design Patterns
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