The newly launched Alienware M17x with Sandy Bridge processor and the about to be launched 3D version of XPS17 are suspended until April due to the issues found in the Sandy Bridge version of the processors.

I placed an order for Alienware M17xR3, 3D enabled laptop last week and eagerly waiting for the delivery. But noticed that this laptop and the XPS 17 3D laptops links have been removed and all the existing 3D related NVIDIA links are broken in the Dell website. When I communicated with the dell support executive this is what he had said

"On Jan. 31, Intel announced a Stop Ship on its Sandy Bridge (new Core i-series) chipset. According to Intel, ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD drives."

And also said that

"For customers impacted by this issue, Dell offers a couple of solutions. Customers experiencing issues will be supported under the warranty and service...

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I recently bought a Nokia Xpress 5800 mobile. Earlier I was using Nokia N73 for more than 2 years, it had no problem till now. I went for Xpress 5800 mobile mainly because it has got a bigger screen with WiFi feature. I always need yahoo mail with me. I thought I can synchronize the yahoo mail on this phone when I am at home through WiFi. Later I realized this yahoo mail setup requires POP3 access from yahoo. I have Apple IPod, it does not require POP3 access.

I always use Nokia mobile for its reliable and long lasting battery backup. I should also appreciate the response time of this mobile. My N73 used to take longer time to start up. This starts up quickly and also good response time on the applications.

Now I regret seriously why I spent so much of amount to buy a problem. I never tried windows or android based mobiles. Here are problems I face almost every day though I have got the latest firmware installed. I am counting the problemsL.

WiFi automatically gets connected when...

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I just installed Visual Studio 2010 RC on my laptop to explore new features. I had an old Visual Studio 2008 solution, I tried to open the solution and it launched the Conversion Wizard. I noticed that the task bar had an item with only icon but without title.

   

I had been experiencing problem with windows authentication on local intranet sites. Whenever I try to use these sites, browser will pop up the log on window, providing valid credentials will again and again get me the logon popup screen and I always ended up locking my domain account.

I managed to use Firefox for some sites. But not all the sites were working properly with Firefox. After too much of frustration with account lockouts and calling up help desk to unlock my domain account, finally I put an end to the hell of windows integrated authentication issue with Internet Explorer 8 on windows 7.

Here is the fix it worked for me.

Make the following two entries in the registry under the key HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA

Add name SuppressExtendedProtection of type DWORD with value 1 Add name LmCompatibilityLevel of type DWORD with value 3    

Hopefully someone will benefit out of this blog entry.

   

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I just wrote a quick note on Windows 7 god mode.

http://www.thysite.com/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/368/ItemID/32/Default.aspx

I am sure that Microsoft Windows 7 is much faster than its predecessors. Recently I realized that my laptop with Windows 7 operating system starts up much faster and available for use instantly, but Apple IPod Touch takes few more seconds to start up. It's definitely a remarkable change from the desktop operating systems.

If I compare Apple IPod Touch with my year old N73 Nokia mobile, definitely IPod is 10 times faster. Yeah N73 takes almost 4 minutes to start up and another 30 seconds to settle down and ready to use, though only 25% of the memory used.

No time to blog L…

I finally got access to Google wave through one of my friends. I am stunned to preview Google wave!!!. Google has exploited JavaScript and Cascaded Style Sheet (CSS) features/flexibilities. Tremendous work…

Unfortunately I could not select my user name in Google wave, it automatically took my user name and mail id, I have no control over it .

Finally the long waited windows 7 RTM on my laptop. I have been using windows RC for quite a long time after a windows vista.

Windows 7 is definitely much better than its predecessor window XP or Windows Vista and also faster which had never been in any of windows series. More over it is stable.

Hoping, I will continue to have the same experience with Windows 7, not like other operating systems fading away over the time by performance.

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Today I checked my yahoo mail spam folder to know that I got an invitation for Miss Bangalore contest held on 31^st October 2009, definitely not to be a contestant thoughJ.

For the past two days I was checking my mails through iPod which did not fetch my yahoo mails in Spam folderL.

Hope I will be making it for the next time.