Lenovo dabbles with Yoga

Yoga is not only for the health conscious world wide, it is also coming to a nearby PC Store.
Lenovo unvieled the latest of their products to hit the US Consumers anytime soon. They are (http://www.eweek.com/mobile/lenovo-tablets-ultrabooks-laptops-are-all-about-windows-8/),

• The IdeaPad Yoga 13 (Windows 8 Pro)
• Yoga 11 (Windows RT)
• ThinkPad Twist
• IdeaLab Lynx

The Yoga products 11 and 13 can open 360 degrees, Here is a copied schematic picture of the possible openings from the eWeek site(http://www.eweek.com/mobile/lenovos-windows-8-lineup-could-help-it-reach-top-pc-spot/). Is it 360 degs or a little less, I wonder.

The touch-centric Windows 8 a game changer is behind all these new products.  Wall Street talking heads say Microsoft's Windows 8 will not help the bottom line because of PC problems. We just have to wait and see.

I close this post with a prayer to Patanajali who placed Yoga on an easy to access format.

Yogena cittasya padena vacam   |
malam  sarirasya ca vaidyakena |
yopakarottam  pravaram muninam |
patanjalim  pranajaliranato'smi|
Om Shanti,Shanti, Shantihi.

 

Breaking News: Packt finished publishing its 1000th Book

Aloha,

Packt is celebrating and I have been a part of this success story. Particpate in the celebration and get a free eBook to mark this occasion.

Just go to Packt's web site and register yourself if you are not already registered. The rest is simple.

 

If you are looking for jump starting your SQL Server / Applications you search for eBook versions of my books shown here:

Good luck

Mahalo

 

Windows Azure SQL Database Service Update

In a recent update to the Azure SQL database service the following features were added:

• Support for linked servers-
• Distributed Queries against the database-local & Azure databases
• Support recursive triggers
• Support for DBCC Show_Statistics

Firewall configuration at database level (previously at Server level)-You get better control

Firewalls can be set up at the portal or through T-SQL-makes life easier.

 

If you want to look at earlier service updates you can find them in my book:

 

 

Links to linked server, distributed queries etc. here,

 

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Mitigating the FBI Green DOT MoneyPak Virus

This was quite bothersome virus which froze the screen with its own screen purporting to be from FBI warning you of some dire consequences, unless you send $100 to them on recieving which they will unclock your computer.

I got this on my Laptop which was dual boot Win7/Win8. I could access Win8 but not WIn7. Win7 got infected.

The first thing I tried was to restore it to an earlier point. I chose a point some 3 days earlier to the day I encountered this frozen screen. It did not do any good. It came right back.
I searched the web here and there. At least I knew it was a scam. I did read someone got so scared he was contemplating committing suicide, may be he was doing something illegal and felt that he may be caught.

Then I got hold of Norton 360 6.0 and scanned the whole system on the Win7 side. It had no clue. It found some 7 non-consequential cookies which it removed. I called up Norton and chatted for a while. Well, they told me that Norton 360 6.0 should do the job but they would provide a technicain with whose help I could remove the bug. The cost was $99.99 for this service. I was not prepared to part with the money and I wanted to try other options. I also downloaded few others, but I was not quite sure they would do the job.

These are some related sites where you may find some help:
http://www.spywareremove.com/removefbigreendotmoneypakvirus.html
http://www.zimbio.com/Remove+Malware/articles/9kb7G7Lpj5K/Uninstall+FBI+Green+Dot+Moneypak+Virus+Effective
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/MoneyPak-FBI-virus-Green-Dot/td-p/808830

My advice, forget about Norton, don't pay them $99.99 not even $9.99, send me a $1 for my advice.

If anyone is interested I can provide the transcript of the chat.
Here is my fix:
I went back and restored the computer to a date in August 2012. It's gone and I am rid of that ransomeware. MSFT has a good thing in its SYSTEM Restore.

BTW, when you choose to restore choose the OS that is infected, in case you have multi-os on your computer.

Cute Windows 8 Phone from HTC

Competition is heating up. HTC launched two NFC supported phones Phone 8x (for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon) and Phone 8S with Windows 8 with screen resolution of 1280x720 (8x) and 800x480(8c).

Both use the Snapdragon S4 processor from Qualcom's system on a chip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)#Snapdragon_S4). Some say that 8x almost indistinguishable from Lumia 920,http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57516060-94/htc-windows-phone-8x-vs-nokia-lumia-920-specs-and-more/ (competition heating across the board at all levels!).

HTC is third behind Apple and Samsung in the market share in North America (http://www.hartware.de/news_55910.html).