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Native VHD boot in this release does not support BitLocker, or hibernation which includes resuming from hibernate.

via No hibernation on Windows 7 when booting from VHD.

Taken as a whole, the group is an interesting collection of some of the key technology leaders inside the company nowadays.

[From: 43 of Microsoft's biggest thinkers try to replicate Bill Gates' brain]

This is the complete version of the speech containing the “10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint”  that I gave to TIE a few years ago. There are days you are “on,” and there are days you are “off.” This was definitely an “on” day. TIE has not invited me back to give a keynote since this speech.

To see the video in full screen, click on the Google logo in the lower right corner.

via The Art of the Start – Holy Kaw!.

Well a short cut is basically a file that points to another file. It is an antiquated, pointing system from the Windows 95 days. Shortcuts not only use up space on your hard drive, they also linger around after the item they are pointing to has been deleted and break if the item is renamed.

A symbolic link is like a short cut, but instead of being saved as a file, they are registered to the file system. This means they do not use hard disk space; all programs recognise and can read where the link is pointing to. A symbolic link can point to any file, folder either locally on the computer or over a network using a SMB path.

A file hard link and the directory junction are a little different. It not only points to the item but duplicates it, but does so without taking up the extra hard disk space required by a copied file. Also if you have a hard link pointing to a file then delete that original file, the hard link will still retain a copy. A limitation of the file hard link though is that the link can only be made on the same file partition as the file.

Finally a junction is a hard link for directories. To me they are the most useful and unlike file hard links, you can create junctions on different partitions to where the original folder is located. Again a junction is stored on the file system, does not take up space and is treated by the operating system and programs as a local folder.

Windows Vista/7 uses the command line program called mklink to create these symbolic links. It has 3 arguments and then requires both a link name and target.

This allows users on Windows and Linux to print web pages to PDF. Mac users you already have this functionality.

[From: PrintPDF :: Add-ons for Firefox]

Tennis shoes for flat feet

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