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January 2007 - Posts

Friday, January 19, 2007 2:28 PM

Microsoft owns FireFox and Mozilla owns IE 7.0

http://ie7.com is owned by a Firefox fan and advertises FireFox, recently I found out http://www.msfirefox.com/ which talks about Microsoft FireFox 2007 :) and it has a Microsoft copyright notice at the bottom. Ok I'm super confused now!! Looks like IE
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:42 AM

Y2K7 Problem Silently Went by

Fortunately it hit only a very small set of people and was much less scary than the Y2K problem and we figured out in advance that flights need not be gounded nor schools closed down. Y2K7 was to do with how assembly versions are stored. The file versions
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:42 PM

The all new Yahoo messenger

WPF is slowly catching up and revolutionizing the way we design and create UI. Check out the new Yahoo Messenger for Vista being developed with WPF at http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:35 PM

More peculiarites of enum

The well known (or moderately known fact): C# enums can contain any value supported by its base type and not just the ones specified in the enum . Lets consider the following enum. enum WeekDay { Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, Wednesday = 3, Thursday = 4, Friday
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:02 PM

Migrated from Windows 3.1

Otherwise why do I have the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Windows 3.1 Migration Status on my Clean XP SP2 box?? I later found that others have also found this earlier and were equally puzzled. Check any XP machine and you'll see this key. The burden
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:42 AM

More about new year

It's a common custom to douse lights at 12:00 as the year changes. The funny part is that in Hyderabad the state owned electricity company actually shut off power at that time!!!! This is no coincidence as they did it last year too (that's when I had
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Monday, January 01, 2007 12:00 AM

Happy New Year

The worst part about new years is that you need to remember to write the new year in all dates you enter. Last time my credit card payment bounced because I entered 2005 on the cheque instead of 2006 and I had to pay late payment charges :( Ok, now since
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