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I was looking recently to our OPML list and I noticed that many people I know haven't started a blog. Or at least... not yet. Which got me thinking: what are the most common reasons people don't start a blog? Is it too intimidating? Or it would be too...

The copy command can be very useful for quick operations. However, there are a number of tricks that are not widely known. 1) Copying the contents of a source directory into the current directory: just specify the source directory! y:\privates>copy...

I'll try to keep this post short, but the main idea is that apparently wireless and security don't really mix well. At least if you are not an expert in this area. While I started learning about this stuff, I got really worried on how easy is to setup...

I always wondered where should I store my backups... A regular backup of my Windows box takes around 13 Gigabytes. Where should I store this stuff? Should I burn DVDs? Or buy a tape drive? Well... let's see. I recently got 50 Gmail invites. That makes...

If you don't know already, here is an indirect answer. I'll quote directly from Bill Gates latest speech : Now, in terms of delivering on more secure systems, I think there are three general things that we do. The first is advancing the technology. We...

Here is a little known feature of our beloved CMD.EXE. It is extremely easy to evaluate an arithmetic expression! All it takes is a five characters. Just type set /a followed by your expression . Here is an example: E:\>set /a 1+1 2 Or, if you want...

During my more-or-less brownian surfing I stumbled across this challenge : The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims. At JREF, we offer a one...

Andy Pennell noted a really interesting post from a Mozilla Firefox developer. It looks like people out there are still using Visual C++ 6.0 as the debugger of choice. And, guess what, I also use Visual C++ 6.0 occasionally, but not for debugging (I switched...

It seems a little high, but, hey, I'm working with computers more than 10 hours per day, and so on :-)

jgwebber pointed out that the new maps.google.com is using the XSLTProcessor at the client side. This is interesting... while I always thought it is possible, I didn't saw too many cases where this approach is actually useful beyond academic exercises...

Especially if you live in a pure .NET world, it's a good exercise to see once in a while what's interesting in the Java land. There are some things out there which do not have (not yet, I would add) an equivalent implementation in .NET. So, if you have...

You have 30 seconds left... just kidding :-) using System; using System.Collections; using System.Reflection; class Hello { Type Unknown { get { return World.GetType(); } } object [] Knowledge() { return Unknown.GetProperties(); } string [] Library()...

Go to tinyurl.com. It's a wonderful idea - you get a simple, quick service that converts very long URLs into very short ones. For example, one of my permalinks got converted into a very short URL which looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/45z4e Update...

I am reading now an article in which James Gosling claims that .NET has a huge security hole. The problem seems to be that .NET allows execution of both safe and unsafe managed code in the same process: [...], Gosling is concerned about "unsafe" code...

Shadow Copies for Shared Folders are a great feature that can give your users access to previous files in minutes, as opposed to hours or even days (as it is takes normally to reclaim a file from the tape in an corporate environment). One word of caution...

I love Google Suggest. Here is a little experiment: 1) Go to http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en 2) Type "msn search" 3) Check out the last suggestion at the bottom... :-)

Leander Kahney publishes an interesting discovery : "About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod," said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. "It's pretty staggering." The source estimated...