Thursday, September 30, 2010

Xmarks shutting down?

Perhaps the most important thing in your webworld is Bookmarks. If you are an avid internet user, with a bunch of computing devices to operate everyday, then you must be knowing Xmarks. To me, it is by far the most important Web browser extension. However, soon its going to be legacy, and fade out in the pages of web history.

imageWhat Xmarks does? it is a synchronization servcie, all FREE of cost that synchronizes your passwords and bookmarks across every computer you have. As Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, it could be just a little idea though, to a person like me, it’s a life-saver.

Xmarks simply works with all the major Web browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer, as well as all the major desktop operating systems like Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. No matter where you are, what computing device you are using, and how many, you could keep a common set of bookmarks and passwords everywhere.

Xmarks released a couple of FAQs on its blog about shutting down this service.

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Why are you shutting down Xmarks?

We weren’t able to find a sustainable business model for Xmarks. The advertising you may have seen on Xmarks.com generates only a small fraction of the revenue we need to cover our operational costs; we had been working hard to create search and discovery products that could take the company to profitability and beyond, but we didn’t generate enough consumer adoption or advertiser adoption of these new products.

The short answer is, time and money have run out, so we’ve made the difficult decision to shut our doors.

As Todd Agulnick, co-founder of Xmarks and CTO, said in a blog posting, “For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs.”

Why not charge for it, or say, charge just for password synchronization or other high-end features? Agulnick wrote, “The prospects there are grim too: With the emergence of competent sync features built into Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, it’s hard to see users paying for a service that they can now get for free.”

Agulnick have also tried to sell Xmarks, but “Over the past three months, we have been remarkably close to striking a deal, only to have the potential buyer get cold feet.” Then, the money clock ran out” “Without the resources to keep the service going, we must shut it down. Our plan is to keep the service running for another 90+ days, after which the plug will be pulled.”

It’s a sobering moment. Here we have a great program that provides an extraordinarily popular service, Xmarks has over 22-million downloads for Firefox alone from a single Firefox site, and its developers can’t pay the bills for lack of a successful business plan.

As a conclusion, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote a somewhat significant theme:

“Twitter, and other popular services and programs that don’t have a business plan, should take note. Popular success doesn’t mean money in the bank. Sometimes it doesn’t even mean being able to keep a roof over your head.

I can only hope that someone will come along and invest in Xmarks and work out a real business plan for it. It would be a shame for this wonderful program and service to disappear.”

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How could a website be called Google?

After reading this article, are you still amazed? Its basically a search engine. What else could it be?


Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Microsoft + WordPress

As Mary Jo Foley writes, its official now, Microsoft Live is no longer a blogging platform. The news pops around when Dharmesh Mehta announced on Windows team blog about the partnering of Windows Live Platform with WordPress.com.

This surely brings new dimensions in Microsoft’s underlying strategy of every computing can be done the Microsoft way. While they don’t need to reinvent the wheel, still they can get the lions share of the web world.


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Session contents of MS Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011

Hey Readers, As you all are aware of the upcoming event of Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference Jan 17-20, 2011. Microsoft recently announces a few of the sample session contents. These include very interesting features that I am equally proud to be a part of that development team. These also include all new UX Enhancements which are precisely in-tandem with Windows 7 UX. This makes it more user interactive and eye-appealing interface that users would love to stick for long time.

Apart from UX, Microsoft has also implemented great new features for Budgetary control, Purchase orders and purchase requisitions, case management, Public sector financials etc.

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Session Outline

Accounting Distributions and Subledger Journal Entries

Learn about the future of accounting for documents entered in subledgers through the creation of accounting distributions and subledger journal entries.  We will discuss the principles of the accounting distribution and subledger journal entry functionality, along with a walk through of an end-to-end scenario.

Advanced Purchase Requisition Features: Workflow, Policy, Distributions and more!

Go beyond the basics of a purchase requisition to the advanced capabilities available to completely shape your company's procurement experience.  The session features workflow, permissions, policy, distributions, and related advanced features of purchase requisition.

Case Management

Case management is a new feature in Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Dynamics AX. Cases represent a unit of work to be accomplished such as auditing expenses, performing a collection, addressing an employee grievance, or responding to a customer complaint. Administrators can define case processes and responsibilities to guide the user through case resolution. A knowledge article feature enables users to find the information they need to assist in case resolution.

Purchase Requisition: Shopping through Purchase Order Creation

Discover the capabilities for end users to procure items based on a familiar shopping experience. The experience continues through checkout, approval, and through Purchase Order creations.

Sales Agreements and Purchase Agreements

Focus on the creation and release forms, and follow up on sales agreements and purchase agreements.
Agreements are for specific product or for products within a salessales or procurement category and committed quantities or a monetary amountsmonetary amounts. Release from the agreement is done in the order creation process.
The agreements are replacing Blanket Order functionality.

Public Sector Accounts Receivables and Billing

Learn about the new public sector accounts receivable and billing functionality, including Billing Classifications and Billing Codes.

Public Sector Financials

Covers Fund Accounting, posting definitions, derived financial hierarchies, year-end processes, and grant management in public sector.

Budgetary Control and Commitment Accounting

Highlights the new budgeting functionality in the new release.

Purchase Order Enhancements

The new version introduces several significant changes on the purchase order. Session covers: Management of one purchase order line with multiple scheduled receipts; control and approval of purchase orders; and an easy approach to receive non-inventoried goods.

Shared Financial Setup

Discussion of the new shared calendars, shared currencies and rate types, and introduction of the Ledger. Shared chart of accounts will be mentioned but is detailed in the Dimension Framework session.

Organizational Model

Learn about the new organization model in Microsoft Dynamics AX. This paradigm shift is illustrated in a brief overview of the overall impact of the organization model. Also, how to set up organizations, and organization hierarchies, as well as a discussion of the goals of these hierarchies and best practices.

Financial Dimension Framework

Introduction to the new financial dimension framework components: financial dimensions, main account, account structures, account rules, shared chart of accounts and segmented entry control.

Global Address Book

Covered are upgrading from older versions to the latest version and the pre-upgrade steps for GAB; changes to address reference data; maintaining GAB-related data; as well as transactions and related data models.

Shared Products

The latest version introduces a new structured approach to product definitions has been introduced. Covered are the core fundamentals of the new product concept; the data model behind the concept; splitting the inventory dimension group; and product related services.

Non-stocked Products and Order Management

How are non-stocked products introduced to Microsoft Dynamics AX and what is the impact on purchase order, sales order, and inventory management? This session provides the answers.

Product Configuration

The new product configuration represents a paradigm shift compared to the existing Product Builder. This session will explore the possibilities offered by the new tool, a look at the migration challenge, and a presentation of the features we're introducing to ease this task.

Human Resources (Foundation and Features)

This session will demonstrate the new functionality of Human Resources in Microsoft Dynamics AX. Covered are both EP and the Microsoft Dynamics AX client.

Manufacturing Execution and Time and Attendance in Microsoft Dynamics AX

The new version offers enhancements to the previously named Shop Floor Control modules, enabling companies to set up touch-screen kiosks for time, production, and project feedback registrations as well as allowing for more options on the spot manual rescheduling and corrections of entered feedback. The session will also include an overview of architectural and license changes to the modules.

Resource Scheduling and the New Operations Resource Model

This session will demonstrate how the introduction of a new resource model in Microsoft Dynamics AX provides more flexible scheduling possibilities.

Client Programming and Customization Changes

Key client changes in programming and customization are covered, including the new granular metadata support for forms which reduces the upgrade impact, the new metadata driven approach to making the UI context-aware based on country region, the new managed host control which enables easier integration of WPF or WinForm controls, and the ease of use for controls supporting the enhanced user experience.

Client User and Developer Experience

Overall visuals, final visuals and developer experience for: Details Forms, List Pages, Fact Boxes, Fast Tabs, Action Pane, and Action Pane Strip are discussed

Designing the Microsoft Dynamics AX User Experience (UX Guidelines)

Focus is on how to design your application or customization to work well in the Microsoft Dynamics AX User Experience. We will walk through the new version’s user experience guidelines.

Models and the SQL Server-based Model Repository

This presentation covers the shift away from AOD files to a SQL Server-based model store, including an introduction to the concept of models and model files (.axmodel), the perception of "parallel layers" using models, the command-line utility AXutil to manage manage models and model files as well as the graphical Model Management tool for managing models and model files.

Improvements to the MorphX IDE

This is a session covering new functionality in MorphX, including the new X++ editor. We will look at all of the new functionality, showcasing improvements such as intellisense features and code formatting.Development Workspace. We will cover the restructured main menu and shortcuts.SysTest. We will cover the changes to running unit tests, as well as the introduction of test attributes which be used to control what tests are executedLabels. We will cover the introduction of temporary labels when using file based version control (machine specific labels used before check-in).

Introduction to Role-based Security - Developer Experience

This session will focus on the developer experience around setting up security in Microsoft Dynamics AX using the new role-based security model. It will cover the process of defining the security artifacts in the AOT and creating security policies.

Report Deployment & Management

We are changing the UX and the fundamentals of how reports are deployed to SSRS servers.
NOTE: This is not about reporting infrastructure deployment

Report Programming Model & RDP-based Reports

The report programming model (new for Microsoft Dynamics AX) allows more advanced control over report data and UX.

Security Configuration with Roles & Duties

Focus is on the administrator experience and setting up security in Microsoft Dynamics AX using the new role-based security model. The session will also describe the list of roles that will be shipped.

Services and Application Integration Framework Enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics AX

We will provide an overview of the Evolution of Services as a first-class programming model to the Microsoft Dynamics AX system including developer oriented features that make it easy to develop services from X++ business logic and consume externally hosted services.
Also covered in the session will be an overview of all B2B and A2A integration specific features and the simplified configuration and management of AIF artifacts.

Configuration and Customization of Microsoft Dynamics AX Role centers & Analysis Extensions

Configuration of Microsoft Dynamics AX2009 Role Centers and analysis cubes required a BI developer. In the new version, setup and configuration of Analysis cubes can be done by a customer/partner with a wizard driven interface without having to go into BI development studio. During this session you will learn, discuss and perform Microsoft Dynamics AX Analysis cube setup and configuration using Microsoft Dynamics AX bits. We will also discuss scenarios/solutions on:

  • Approaches to upgrading existing Analysis cubes
  • Customizing Microsoft Dynamics AX out of the box analysis cubes
  • Approaches to integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX analysis cubes with existing Data warehouses and BI solutions

Simple Query-based Reports Development

Simple reports development based on Microsoft Dynamics AX Query

Test Enabled Development

When your development process is Test Enabled, steps towards release are made with confidence because robust tests are guiding the way. This session will present how the combination of the new Visual Studio 10 test tooling and test collateral from Microsoft can jump start the productivity of your development process and improve the quality of your release.

Visual Studio Tools

Coverage of all the investments areas, showcasing the full breadth of tools we are delivering in Microsoft Dynamics AX. This involves: Microsoft Dynamics AX Modeling - modeling Reports in Visual StudioAX Managed Code - repository centric managed code development for AXDeployment - streamlined developer deployment of managed code and debugging against AXSource Control integration - integrating AX modeling and managed code into Microsoft Dynamics AX source controlEP - developing EP user controls using the repository centered frameworkUsing events and proxies to extend the Microsoft Dynamics AX application in managed codeVarious integration tools for better integration of Visual Studio and Microsoft Dynamics AX. What is left to do... Further plans...

Workflow Enhancements

Review of the major enhancements that are being made to the workflow infrastructure in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

X++ Events and Their Use

We will discuss the new eventing feature that will be available in Microsoft Dynamics AX, and see how it can be used to decouple publishers and subscribers, alleviating many upgrade issues.

Microsoft Dynamics AX IT Infrastructure Architecture and System Requirements Planning

Coverage of the IT Infrastructure Architecture in Microsoft Dynamics AX, including the systems requirements needed for the different components so that you can understand what is needed for planning a new or upgraded installation. 

Management Reporter

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Management Reporter is a real-time financial reporting application designed to empower information workers to quickly and easily create, generate, secure, and publish financial statements, such as Profit and Loss (PandL) statements, balance sheets, and Actual vs. Budget variance reports. Management Reporter will replace FRx. With Management Reporter, business users can create their own boardroom-quality reports without IT assistance; take advantage of secure report distribution through a centralized report library; and gain strong support for regulatory compliance. Direct integration with the Microsoft Dynamics ERP general ledger means that there is no need to create a custom connection to the data source.

Server Data Access

the following topics are covered:

  • Performance focused investments in Data Caching
  • Closing out Super/Sub Type framework
  • Closing out the Relational framework investments from the past milestones

Expert Panel for Developers - Programming Models and Developer Tools

Outline the programming models and developer tools in Microsoft Dynamics AX. Layout guidelines for choosing the right programming model, language (.NET or X++) and development tools (MorphX or Visual Studio) for categories of development. This will be followed by an expert panel Q and A session to go deep and help clarify the roadmap and direction for Microsoft Dynamics AX development technologies

Learn to Data Upgrade for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Walk through the end-to-end technical upgrade, learn about the supported scenarios, and understand the new framework. Session will provide overview of the concepts, upgrade process, and demo on a sample technical upgrade flow.

What You Need To Know About Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics AX

An overview of Microsoft Dynamics AX SSRS Reporting features

MorphX - SSRS Production Reporting: Tips and Tricks

Guided discussion along with examples on creating Query, RDP reports.
Walk thru starting from an X++ report and converting that to an SSRS rpeort

Developing a BI Solution Using Microsoft Dynamics AX

All-up session on OLAP f/w, integratingPowerpivot ,PivotViewer andPPS web parts – story for partners and Sis.
Also promote our story on ad-hoc reporting in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Configuring Role Centers + Analytics

Guided discussion on configuration story for configuring the Role Centers + Analystics.

Cubes – Developing and Customizing OOB Cubes

Walk through of developing, deploying the OOB cubes with the new wizard infrastructure.

Query & RDP based Production Reports

Simple Query, RDP based reports, customizing OOB report, upgrading an X++ report

Developing Microsoft Dynamics AX SSRS Reports

Simple Query, RDP based reports, customizing OOB report, upgrading an X++ report

Developing and customizing OOB Cubes

Walk through of developing, deploying the OOB cubes with the new wizard infrastructure.

Enabling Multi-channel eCommerce and Payments with Online Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX

This session will show how Microsoft Dynamics customers can operate in a multi-channel environment using the integrated Payment and Commerce Services that are delivered out-of-the-box with Microsoft Dynamics AX.  Additionally, learn how Dynamics Partners can use the Services APIs to customize and extend related business processes in the cloud. Demos will show key features, including provisioning/setup, managing product catalogs for e-commerce, publishing products to ecommerce storefronts as well as 3rd-party marketplaces like eBay, and fulfilling e-commerce orders from within the ERP system.

Engineering Excellence with Microsoft Dynamics AX

How do you ensure consistent high quality during the development phase? This session walks through how Microsoft internal development organization strives for higher quality, and demonstrates some of the available tools in Microsoft Dynamics AX that will enable you to improve your quality; including version control, best practices and unit testing.

How We Solved the Element ID Problem

Element IDs (such as table and class IDs) have been a problem since Microsoft Dynamics AX1 because they are limited to small ranges and often in conflict between solutions. This, however, is changed in Microsoft Dynamics AX6. Come and learn the history behind element IDs, how they work in Microsoft Dynamics AX6 and how that may impact your code.

Microsoft Dynamics AX Code Upgrade

Code Upgrade is one of the first steps required to get your Microsoft Dynamics AX project underway.  This session will cover all aspects of code upgrade (Application and Foundation).  Specifically we will cover:

  • Required and Optional tasks to perform a code upgrade
  • Tools, Documentation and Samples available for a Microsoft Dynamics AX code upgrade
  • Key Insights and Suggestions from the product team

Writing Secure X++ Code

This session will help you to write X++ code that meets the trustworthy computing requirements of Microsoft Dynamics AX. Covered are Table Permission Framework, Code Access Security, Dangerous Intermediaries, SQL injection, and more.

Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics AX Development

This session introduces you to the model driven development in Microsoft Dynamics AX, which enables you to focus on domain requirements and worry less about technology requirements. Covered are the AOT, X++, Label system, IntelliMorph, and more in both the MorphX development environment and Visual Studio.

SQL-based Model Store

In Microsoft Dynamics AX the AOD files are replaced with a SQL database. Come and hear about the challenges, the solution and the new opportunities. You will learn the model store schema, and how to write SQL queries against model artifacts.

Item to Product Upgrade

With the introduction of the new shared products concept, all existing Microsoft Dynamics AX customers are forced through an upgrade process where items must be mapped to new product definitions.
To support this process, an upgrade tool has been made as part of the standard Microsoft Dynamics AX upgrade, where the user can map items to products in iterations.
This sessions will cover:

  • a demo of the tool
  • walkthrough of recommended upgrade steps when mapping items to products

A Domain Modeling Approach to Defining System Functionality and Interactions in AX

In AX6, Dynamics AX engineering teams have begun using Domain Modeling to define the key business entities within the ERP space and the interactions between those entities. This presentation will explain how we are leveraging that modeling to guide our functional coverage planning in test as well how we are using this information to facilitate communication about the functional areas and the interactions between business entities.
This presentation will provide an overview of the process we have used to collect this information and an overview of the increases in efficiency and completeness that we have seen in our test planning activities. Finally, we will demonstrate how this process can be leveraged by partners to analyze the possible scope of effort required to integrate custom solutions into the standard product.

Register Now, See you at Redmond :)


Sunday, September 26, 2010

Microsoft Dynamics AX vs GP

Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions are by far the most comprehensive ERP solutions available in overall aspect. Ranging from cost to complexity and implementation to support, if you are interested to keep everything into account, Microsoft Dynamics would be your answer. They offer exceptionally easy-to-use solutions that fit smoothly with your existing IT systems and infrastructure.

However, one may get into this trouble of which one to choose? And mostly people end up comparing Dynamics AX vs. Dynamics GP and Dynamics CRM or NAV etc. Microsoft does not compare any of those solutions, neither any comparison exists nor they encourage it. However, there are several other ways to look at a project from different angles that are reflected in the decision engine of your choice. Here is an easy to use app on the web that helps you find the right solution for your business.

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This is a simple assessment test carefully map your responses to each Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution. The final result is a recommendation that targets your specific organization.


Microsoft Dynamics AX Connector for SAP

In a near future, Microsoft plans to release a two-tier business connector for its flagship product Microsoft Dynamics AX that can wire up with Business Suite ERP of SAP.

The idea of the this AX-SAP connector is to set up a two-tier structure for process integration from both the headquarters of an organization (using SAP's Business Suite) and office-branch subsidiaries (using Dynamics AX). Microsoft has already announced that this connector will be available for download sometime later this year.

The Microsoft Dynamics two-tier connector is designed to incorporate key scenarios like Distributed Manufacturing, Distributed Distribution and Financial Consolidation that is shared from a central SAP installation.

The technology behind the connector is an integral part of Microsoft Dynamics AX, as well as a standalone integration component. The standard technical component includes the Application Integration Framework (AIF), which is a Microsoft Dynamics AX module based on Windows Communication Services. It basically functions as a middleware that allows systems to expose and consume web services in X++. Secondly, the BizTalk Server together with the SAP Adapter and Microsoft Dynamics AX Adapter handles communication and mapping of messages between Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP

Microsoft describes the two-tier ERP approach as offering cost-savings to organizations.

"Organizations seeking to streamline their processes and technology should consider a two-tier ERP strategy as a cost-effective alternative to the limitations associated with forcing a single enterprise solution across their entire business," stated Crispin Read, Microsoft's general manager of Dynamics ERP, in released statement.

Here is a useful resources on the while two-tier ERP concept that Microsoft introduces.


Microsoft Dynamics ERP Two-Tier Business Scenario

Microsoft recently releases a Two-Tier Business Scenario for Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP.

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Check it out at: http://www.microsoft.com/global/dynamics/en/us/RichMedia/demoHTML/demo-dynamics-ax-two-tier.htm#/Home

This Silverlight application demo describes 3 of key scenarios.

  1. Distributed Manufacturing
  2. Distributed Distribution
  3. Financial Consolidation

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If you want if for offline use, just right click on screen and select “Install Microsoft Dynamics tow-tier onto this computer…”.

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Finally removing it won’t be that difficult too. Just right click and select “Remove this application…”.

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Playing with Google Search

 

You won’t mind if I say Google Search is a mystery. Well, most of you would, but does anyone precisely knows how Google indexes the content published on the internet?

Most recently, I published a blog post regarding Why my drive shows less space than expected?. That post was more about describing binary numbers for different file systems and how manufacturers use it for case of simplicity. Interestingly, that post, became the top result in this query on Google, “Why my drive shows less space than expected?”.

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This gave me some idea to play more with Google Search. Since I’ve always been a fan of how Google keeps its search index it was really enjoying identifying these facts too.

Sooner when I searched if Google can tell me the binary number of my name, the query “what is a binary number of atif” returned this post on the 3rd top result.

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Now this leads how Google might be doing behind the curtains. Is it true that Google is indexing each and every word of whatever you post on the internet? Or is it based on the influence of any post on the internet in recent given time?

Raising more riddles for the technology geeks out there :) whatever, its just lovely how the way Google fetches your search queries.


Microsoft AX 2009 – Programming Getting Started

 

Here is another great new resource for those who want a head start on programming in Microsoft AX 2009.


Sunday, September 19, 2010

Why a search website is named Google?

 

I don’t know, and I’m still finding!


Why my drive shows less space than expected?

Have you ever wondered when you plug in your new hard disc drive and it shows less free space then expected? This ain’t the question you thought for the first time. If you google this query, you’ll find over 3.7 million results, and this post that you are reading is probably the first one. so you are in-a-way, landed on the right page Smile

Well that’s not very obnoxious. Its pretty simple, rather a mere numbers game.

In order to determining the disc drive capacity you have to count on the operating system. This is mainly because of the file system they user. When dealing with systems based on Windows and Mac, you will often see both binary measurements and decimal measurements of the capacity of your drive. In both cases, the capacity of a drive is measured by using the total number of bytes available on it. As long as the drive displays the correct number of bytes (approximate), you are getting the full capacity of that drive.

Decimal vs. Binary:
First up, the hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes for the obvious sake of simplicity and consistency. This is industry standard is basically a decimal (base 10) measurement. However, certain systems like BIOSs, FDISK and Windows define specifically a megabyte (MB) as 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as 1,073,741,824 bytes. Mac and most other systems also use these values. These are binary (base 2) measurements.

To Determine Decimal Capacity:
A decimal capacity is determined by dividing the total number of bytes, by the number of bytes per gigabyte (1,000,000,000 using base 10).


To Determine Binary Capacity:
A binary capacity is determined by dividing the total number of bytes, by the number of bytes per gigabyte (1,073,741,824 using base 2).

This is the main reason why different utilities actually report different capacities for the same drive. The number of bytes is the same, but a different number of bytes is used to make an MB and a GB.


Important: If you are dealing with drive sizes smaller than the Approximate Binary Capacity of your Drive Size, then you may be dealing with either a BIOS limitation, or a Windows drive size limitation. For more information, please see links below.

Following table shows a relative count for the capacities measured by different file systems.

Various Drive Sizes and their Binary and Decimal Capacities

Drive Size

Approximate Total Bytes

Decimal Capacity
(bytes/1,000,000,000)

Approximate Binary Capacity(bytes/1,073,724,841)

10 GB

10,000,000,000

10 GB

9.31 GB

20 GB

20,000,000,000

20 GB

18.63 GB

30 GB

30,000,000,000

30 GB

27.94 GB

36 GB

36,000,000,000

36 GB

33.53 GB

40 GB

40,000,000,000

40 GB

37.25 GB

60 GB

60,000,000,000

60 GB

55.88 GB

74 GB

74,000,000,000

74 GB

68.91 GB

80 GB

80,000,000,000

80 GB

74.51 GB

100 GB

100,000,000,000

100 GB

93.13 GB

120 GB

120,000,000,000

120 GB

111.76 GB

150 GB

150,000,000,000

150 GB

139.69 GB

160 GB

160,000,000,000

160 GB

149.01 GB

180 GB

180,000,000,000

180 GB

167.64 GB

200 GB

200,000,000,000

200 GB

186.26 GB

250 GB

250,000,000,000

250 GB

232.83 GB

300 GB

300,000,000,000

300 GB

279.40 GB

320 GB

320,000,000,000

320 GB

298.02 GB

400 GB

400,000,000,000

400 GB

372.52 GB

500 GB

500,000,000,000

500 GB

465.65 GB

640 GB

640,000,000,000

640 GB

595.84 GB

750 GB

750,000,000,000

750 GB

698.47 GB

1 TB (1000 GB)

1,000,000,000,000

1 TB (1000 GB)

931.30 GB

1.5 TB (1500 GB)

1,500,000,000,000

1.5 TB (1500 GB)

1396.95 GB

2 TB (2000 GB)

2,000,000,000,000

2 TB (2000 GB)

1862.6 GB

3 TB (3000 GB)

3,000,000,000,000

3 TB (3000 GB)

2793.97 GB

4 TB (4000 GB)

4,000,000,000,000

4 TB (4000 GB)

3725.29 GB

6 TB (6000 GB)

6,000,000,000,000

6 TB (6000 GB)

5587.94 GB

8 TB (8000 GB)

8,000,000,000,000

8 TB (8000 GB)

7450.58 GB

Also see:

"How Mac OS X reports drive capacity".

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=615


Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Dynamics AX List of Best Practice Error and Warning Messages

 

Working with Microsoft Dynamics AX development environment, one must follow certain best practices that would allow the code to run and work better. By default, the compiler for X++, checks the code for a list of best practice issues that are very important to follow. These issues are listed as best practice errors, warnings, or even informational messages.

Here is the great resource for those working on Dynamics AX for the consolidated list of best practice error and warning messages on msdn site.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530207.aspx


Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sync Windows Phone SMS with Gmail

Windows hasn’t been that bad with sync up things on the Cloud. This post highlighted a few of the same prospects from Microsoft. While considering sync up my phone text messages up on cloud, here is another great resource. It is an app for your Windows Mobile Phone device called SMSSyncUp that syncs your phone text messages to your Gmail account. One of the coolest things about this is that it will sync only those messages which were not synced previously in last synchronization, it also provides an scheduler.

Here is the resource: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625378


Monday, September 6, 2010

Blog about Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011


This is in continuation of an earlier blog post about Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011. Since Microsoft announced the upcoming event in January 2011, it also helps spreading the word. If you want to blog about this conference, here are some useful content you can use.

This includes a couple of banner images, and also a silverlight video to share.

 

Install Silverlight

From the website:

“Silverlight Video

If you would like to embed the intro video into your blog post or site you can use this HTML tag. This is a Silverlight video so people will need to have the Silverlight player to play this in their web browser. They will be prompted to download it. This is the same video we have on the front of the conference site.

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<object id="slPreview" type="application/x-silverlight-2" data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," style="border-style:double; border-width:1px" width="320" height="240"><param name="Source" value="http://www.demoshowcasesuite.com/ClientBin/Video.xap" /><param name="MinRuntimeVersion" value="3.0" /><param name="Background" value="white" /><param name="EnableHtmlAccess" value="true" /><param name="InitParams" value="DemoID=c28066d1-b6cb-4e06-b641-eb4831119130,EmailID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,UICultureCode=en-US,Host=http://www.demoshowcasesuite.com" /><center><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=149156" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108181" alt="Install Silverlight"style="border-width: 0px;" /></a></center></object>

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We are looking forward to the event as it will be the first dedicated product/technical conference we have had for Dynamics AX. Please restrict blogging to announcing the conference or discussing why people should attend or comments on the session content we are restricting blogging on deep feature discussions until the conference.”

Now, spread the word. See you at Redmond :)


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