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What is "Standard Manageability?"
We had an interesting forum question the other day. A customer said he/she has an Intel(r) AMT 5.0.1 system and could not figure out why he/she was getting error messages when trying to make calls related to the Audit Log (or Access Monitor.) This customer also ran the "GetCodeVersion" API to get …
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Windows 7 Release Candidate
According to the website Ars Technica the Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available sometime in May and it appears they have some evidence to back up that claim. As you can see here someone at Microsoft mistakenly enabled the download page for the Windows 7 Release Candidate on the TechNet websi …
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Concurrent Characters
For my monthly SF book discussion group, we just finished Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars. This is a Young Adult fantasy novel that does a reimagining of the classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. In Beddor's work, seven-year old Pr …
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Some tips for POVRay (1)
I took over POVRay project several months ago. With team members help and support, I finished the first around benchmark testing for POVRay 3.6 on Window, Linux and Mac platforms. Now I summaried some experiences here for furture used. Several links for POVRay Please visit for PovrayTesting informat …
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GDC Day 3
Its day three of GDC so I wanted to step back and try to write down my impressions thus far. This is my first GDC, but about the 20th conference that I've attended since I started Intel. First and foremost, I think we are hosting a great contest with the Level Up 2009 Game Demo Challenge. Du …
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Tune in to hear "Into Tomorrow" from GDC!
Tomorrow we will have a very special broadcast from the Intel Lounge area in Moscone West (3rd Floor)! Dave Graveline will be doing the "Into Tomorrow" radio show and interviewing Intel and GDC folks. Scheduled to appear: Meggan Scavio, Director - GDC Tonya Bowes, Marketing Manager - Intel Softwa …
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Learning from the Mobile Internet Pros at SXSW (Pt 1 of 2)
As you may have read on MIDMoves.com, I traveled to Austin, Texas recently to meet up with a team from Intel that were running around the South by Southwest Interactive conference doing promotional and awareness activities with Mobile Internet Devices. Compal, Viliv, UMID, Fujitsu, Gigabyte and in f …
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FileSystem as a synchronization infrastructure
A long time ago, ages in computer years, storage devices were introduced to the systems. These devices allowed non-volatile storage for computer system even when the computer is unplugged. The storage, a hard-disk, is very slow in comparison to CPU and RAM / ROM memory. This makes Random reads irrel …
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See two new listings in the Software and Partner Directory
I'd like to point out a couple of very nicely done new entries in the Intel Business Exchange Software and Partner Directory. Zimbra Desktop SuiteTwo Check them out, and while you're there, please click on the "give feedback" button to send us your thoughts on the Software and Partner Directory. P …
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PDA MID Systems for Soaring, intro
I have a confession. I am an addict. The exhilaration experienced as I guide an aircraft soaring through the air where my life is literally in my own hands is an addiction I must feed! As a glider pilot I love mixing the world of flight with computers and software. For the last 6 years I have be …
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Developing applications in the Cloud?
Salesforce.com (the No Software pioneer) and Twitter (the uber microblogging site) have recently announced a partnership that creates an extension to Salesforce.com's Service Cloud which is built on their Force.com platform, (found on the Intel Businses Exchange). This Service Cloud is an online app …
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AMT Audit Log ... Let it Roll
When the Access Monitor (a.k.a. Audit Log) feature was added to AMT back in release 4.0 (see original blog here) there was concern expressed about the behaviour when the log became full. To ensure the Auditor had a chance to see all the events flagged as "critical", these events would not be allowed …
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Locks Are Bad!!!
Students are tought to use Locks such as MUTEXs and Critical Sections. We are also told that a MUTEX is a type of Semaphore. This is all very bad! When we lock we practically try to make sure that the resource is locked to a single core. - We have a multicore CPU but we try to make sure that all wor …
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GDC 2009: From the Show Floor!
Hey everyone! It's that time of year again for the Game Developer's Conference! Post a comment on this blog if you're at the event with your comments and updates from the show! If you don't know what to comment on, answer the question: "As a developer, what resources would you like to have access …
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Winners announced for Havok Physics Innovation Contest
Back in August we kicked off a contest to encourage developers to create games that made innovative use of Havok Physics and Animation for PC. We put $40,000 worth of prizes up for grabs and today we've announced the winners! Our panel of five judges from Havok, Intel and university weighed criteri …
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GDC 2009: From the Show Floor, Day 1!
Hey everyone! It's that time of year again for the Game Developer's Conference! Post a comment on this blog if you're at the event with your comments and updates from the show! If you don't know what to comment on, answer our question of the day: "As a developer, what resources would you like to h …
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Get your Visual Adrenaline pumping by entering our contest!
Check out our newest contest to kick off the great week ahead here at the San Francisco Game Developer's Conference! Enter the Intel® Visual Adrenaline Sweepstakes at You can enter each week now through May 24, 2009 to win copies of today's hottest PC games including Call of Duty World at War*, Tom …
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Got Game?
My brother is Biology professor who gets to travel all over the place and do interesting things. Unfortunately, We only get to see each other just a few times a year but when we do a little ritual happens. We send the wife/kids out, get some refreshments, then fire up Mortal Kombat on the Xbox an …
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HEY AMT!!! Time to wake up
Have you ever been working and had a patch come down from your IT department that you had to install now. Or how about a virus scan that brought your machine to a crawl in the middle of your work. If so, then you may want AMT Alarm Clock, a new feature in the recently released 5.1 version of Intel A …
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You're invited to join us at GDC; in-person or virtually!
The San Francisco Game Developer's Conference begins in few short days and what a show it is going to be! Intel is presenting plenty of technical sessions, chalk talks, demonstrations, walk-throughs and much, much more. We'll be tweeting live from the event at http://www.twitter.com/intelevents, s …
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