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VMWare Fusion
I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac since it’s beta days, and have been pretty happy with it until now. The biggest qualm I have (with the version I currently have: version 2) is the lack of an appropriate video card driver; playing as well as using it for graphically-intensive games and applications is not…
How to find the service pack version installed on SQL Server
Run and execute the following query; it doesn’t matter what database and/or table you’re in: select @@VERSION If executed successfully, you should get something like below, which shows that SP2 is installed. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86) Feb 9 2007 22:47:07 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build…
Researchers hack into iPhone via Web
Yowza! The iPhone can be hijacked? Tsk, tsk, tsk…not good, but not surprising either. Nowadays, more and more companies try to release more while downplaying quality – quantity over quality, which is a shame. I’m not saying all corporations do this, but in general, yes they do. Apple should’ve spent more time testing this kinda…
$1.99 domain registration at Yahoo!
Yahoo! once again is offering the $1.99 domain registration deal. Check it out here.
Microsoft’s Web Application Stress tool
It’s a tool that provides you an easy way to simulate large numbers of users against your web app, which makes it possible for one to make intelligent decisions about hardware and software load incurred by your application and how much traffic a given machine or group of machines can handle. In case you need…