Make sure Dual Core works with Windows XP

I got this from digg.com which had a pointer to an article here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416 
In a nutshell, you need to be sure to update it with the XP patch to make it work, and then make some registry entries.

New Microsoft OPX technology

I got introduced to this in the recently concluded Microsoft Partner Conference in Boston. I heard Mr Wil Engles of Whiteboxsolutions sing high praises for this product!
Other details include snippets from http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71159 and are reproduced below:
“The OPK eXtender is a powertoy for the Windows® OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) that adds system builder-specific features to the OPK. […]

PVR 3000

I got this cute little package from Alex C. of Innovista to play with. It plugs into the USB port and instantly allows one to view and record their favorite TV channels from both Antenna and cable source.
I set about to see if this device also supported Microsoft Windows Media encoder. So far there is […]

Setting up NLB Server Cluster

Network Load Balancing provides high availability and scalability of servers using a cluster of two or more host computers working together. Internet clients access the cluster using a either a IP address or a set of addresses. The clients are unable to distinguish the cluster from a single server. Server applications do not identify that […]