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So I'm standing in a safeway, at the register. There's an American Express $100 gift card. You pay $105 for it ($5 fee), and get a $100 gift card that can be used anywhere.. Maybe it's a culture gap thing. I have only been in the US for 4 years.. But...

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In our internal exchange system, MS has various limits on email size, depending on what server you happen to reside on (true beta servers tend to not have any limit. More stable servers tend to have an upper limit in the vicinity of 500mb). If you are...

This is a continuation of a previous post . As you recall (or not), we had some test code that would open a remote registry on a server machine and read values. These values would then be used on the client machine to run tests against that server. We...

Recently, I helped one of the devs (lets call him dev1) figure out a bug. The bug was introduced into the code by a different dev (lets call him dev2). The person who was ultimately responsible for the bug creeping into the code in the first place however...

As reported in Slashdot (and other places): http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/19/088241&from=rss Basically, making legistlation to close the loophole that will currently allows analog copying of digital copyrighted matirial (I am...

Maxivista allows you to install virtual display drivers on your computer. It then uses other computers to act as your extended monitors. This means, if you have 3 computers and 3 monitors at your disposal, you can install MaxiVista and have one of your...

Jerome, one of our testers, ran into a problem when trying to access the real x64 Windows 2003 server registry from a Win32 managed binary (over the network, no less). The observed behavior of the problem is that, even though a known value is located...

There are very few things that I am afraid of. It’s not that I am brave or heroic – I am just lazy. Being afraid takes energy and can potentially require me to take action (even if the action is running away). I am just too damn lazy for that. The...

This feature has been working since windows 2k or early versions of XP, and still many people do not know about it. If you have a Message Box showing, and you want to copy its contents, you can just Ctrl-C when the window is focused - you will hear...

In the past 24 hours I have been getting spam emails at a rate of one per minute on my non-ms email (if you just woke up, that's about 720 emails in 12 hours). Outlook junk filter was able to filter about 30% of them but the rest landed in my inbox. ...

Replaced with an S2 140h TiVo I got for free from TiVo (through their rewards program). Now I have two S2s in my network. Can transfer shows between them etc. Very nice indeed. The S1 was showing its age - it was still kind'a functioning, but the...