Raspberry Pi becomes an instant hit on its launch day
March 1st, 2012
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Few years ago there was a $100 laptop sensation that ultimately converted to a one laptop per child Children’s Machine, an inexpensive subnotebook computer with low power and small footprint. Today it was Raspberry Pi, a $25/$35 small footprint computer almost the size of a credit card that can perform basic computing for many users. The UK based Raspberry Pi Foundation built this computer to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools at affordable price. It has started to take the orders beginning today. The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC), which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 256 Megabytes of RAM. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead relies on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. The board is intended to run Linus kernel based operating system and supports Python programming language.
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit V2
May 1st, 2010
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The Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit V2 contains 11 downloadable tools to help you manage and troubleshoot Configuration Manager 2007. The following list provides specific information about each tool in the toolkit:
- Client Spy – A tool that helps you troubleshoot issues related to software distribution, inventory, and software metering on Configuration Manager 2007 clients.
- Delete Group Class Tool – A tool used to remove inventory group definitions along with history data, tables, views and stored procedures for the group.
- Desired Configuration Management Migration Tool – A tool used to migrate from the DCM Solution for SMS 2003 to DCM in ConfigMgr 2007.
- Desired Configuration Management Model Verification Tool – A tool used by desired configuration management content administrators for the validation and testing of configuration items and baselines authored externally from the Configuration Manager console.
Microsoft Application Virtualization for Remote Desktop Services 4.6
April 16th, 2010
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Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) for RDS helps solve application compatibility on Remote Desktop Session Hosts/Terminal Servers. App-V for RDS 4.6 now supports 64-bit operating systems.
In Remote Desktop Services deployments, application conflicts can lead to silos of remote desktop session host servers. To avoid application conflicts, applications typically must undergo significant testing to determine which applications will collide and, therefore, must be separated and run on different session host silos—a time-consuming and costly process. Separating out multiple remote desktop session hosts to accommodate specific applications routinely results in servers being underutilized because each one is locked into a specific configuration, capable of serving only a limited set of non-conflicting applications. Often, 20 servers are required to support 1,000 users.
Application Virtualization Application Listing Tool
February 22nd, 2010
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The App-V Application Listing Tool (ListVApps) is a tool which lists all the virtual processes that are running at a specific time on a specific computer. You can use the tool to get information about the priority and owner of each process, the size of its virtual memory, its session identifier and processing time.
Application Virtualization SFT Parser Tool
February 22nd, 2010
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Application Virtualization SFT Info utility can be used to extract the following information from SFT files:
- Validation of SFT files—Process corrupted SFT files, and recover information from corrupted SFT files.
- XML export of contents of SFT—Export the contents of an existing SFT file. You can evaluate SFT segments or SFT metadata and construct a textual tree view of all file information SFT file.
- Listing of all of the files in the SFT—Identify and print the files contained in the SFT with their full paths. This is a good method to quickly identify the contents of a package.
- Statistics about properties of the SFT metadata—Identify statistical information, such the largest file contained in a package. This can be very useful for identifying packages that are too large in size and are causing issues loading on the client.
- Get relevant information on a file in the package—Display size, timestamps, attributes, and version information associated with the package.
- Ability to skip processing of file data if using functionality that requires only the metadata—Allows working with very large packages quickly.
Application Virtualization Dynamic Suite Composition Tool
February 22nd, 2010
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Dynamic suite composition is a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) feature that enables applications to be sequenced separately from the plug-ins and middleware applications they rely on, while still being able to utilize the virtual resources such as file system and registry settings, in the virtual environment. The packages will run and interact with one another as if they were all installed locally on a computer. The primary package will also assume the secondary packages entire virtual environment, including the virtual file system.
If there is an installer associated with a virtual application package, the installers will be automatically updated.
You can use the App-V Dynamic Suite Composition tool to edit the Open Software Descriptor (.osd) file associated with a virtual application package to create the inter-package dependencies.
Application Virtualization MSI Compat Transform
February 22nd, 2010
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The App-V MSI Compat Transform is used to make App-V 4.5 Sequencer generated MSIs adaptable for App-V 4.6 Client. Running an .msi generated by the in App-V 4.5 sequencer produces a load/install error when trying to run it on an App-V 4.6 Client. On the App-V 4.6 Client, the following message has been added to show:
- "This package requires Microsoft Application Virtualization Client 4.5 or later.”
To successfully run the .msi, an MSI transform must be applied to the 4.5 generated .msi file using the following command:
- MSITran.exe -a launchcondition.mst {4_5generated.msi}
Where MSITran is a utility that is part of the Windows Platform SDK.
Application Virtualization Cache Configuration Tool
February 22nd, 2010
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You can use the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) cache configuration utility to configure settings associated with App-V client cache. The App-V client cache resizing tool (AppVCacheSize) allows administrators to increase the Microsoft Application Virtualization client cache size through a scriptable command line interface. AppVCacheSize uses the specified parameters to configure the desired cache size, as well as toggle between using a free disk space threshold or set a maximum cache size.
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