Meltdown and Spectre information
Here's a quick list of resources I gathered following today's CPU vulnerabilities announcement:
The Register article
Plain and simple explanation
Google statement
Azure statement
AWS statement
Microsoft security update KB4056890
Microsoft changes to IE and Edge
Windows Client Guida
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Xbox One - how to fix a sluggish UI
The UI of my Xbox One got very sluggish and it was a pain to use. Games were running fine but moving from tile to tile and menu to menu was tremendously slow. A quick search on the InterTubes led me to this solution:
Clear the Blu-ray cacheSelect Settings/All Settings/Disc &
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Churn
Take an hour to watch this thought provoking talk by Hadi Hariri about the silver bullet myth and churn in our industry:
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And if you want more, listen to Uncle Bob on DotNetRocks.
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Happy Year of the Monkey!
Happy Year of the Monkey from the Windows Insiders Ninja Monkey himself!
Download the wallpapers for PC, Windows Phones and Band here
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Anker LED Desk Lamp
Gadget time!
I was looking to change my desk lamp because it was too bulky and the halogen bulb was generating way too much heat. While browsing, I found that Anker was selling an LED desk lamp. Having previously bough a fantastic USB charger form them, I was intrigued and bought one. &n
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Journée de la plateforme de données Microsoft
Le 27 octobre 2015, Microsoft organise une journée de formation gratuite pour sa plate forme de données.
Pour vous inscrire, cliquez ici
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My experience installing Office 2016
Office 2016 was released today and like all major Microsoft product, I usually can't wait to install the new stuff so I downloaded the ISO from MSDN and launched the installer by double clicking on setup.exe expecting:
That I will be giving a choice to upgrade my current Office 2013 installation
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Thomas Maurer's awesome OneNote features list
OneNote is an awesome application for note taking but many features are hidden. Thomas Maurer, an Hyper-V MVP, has listed a series of über cool OneNote features in a blog post. To bookmark!
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Web documentary: Do Not Track / Traque Interdite
Do Not Track is an interactive Web documentary about privacy and the Web economy.
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Share with your friends and family: English version | French Canadian version | French version
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720p recording on a MacBook Air
For a training project, I had to produce a 1280x720p video on my MacBook Air. That should be easy ;-)
So I bought and installed TechSmith's Camtasia Mac, did a test video and quickly found that exporting to 1280x720p resulted in blurry videos because Camtasia had to scale the screen from the n
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