Dennis just wrote about some laptop frustrations . I have to agree. I can't tell you how many times I've closed my laptop lid, placed it in my bag and opened it back up on the train a 30 minutes later to find the battery half drained. Since I refuse to...

**Updated x2 ** Update just for Dare I'm glad this story is coming on April 2nd :) http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5183848.html?tag=nefd_lede Sun and Microsoft reach a deal on antitrust and patent issues, with payments of $1.95 billion...

The bigger the dictionary the harder it is to spell-check....

From HERE : The agreements signed today include the following elements: Technical Collaboration: The Technical Collaboration Agreement will provide both companies with access to aspects of each other's server-based technology and will enable them...

You're probably familiar with the three little buttons in the bottom-left corner of PowerPoint that let you switch views: [image] [Normal View] [Slide Sorter View] [Slide Show] Did you know you could press Ctrl or Shift while pressing...

I run a Linux web server from home on an old Dell 266mhz/64mb clunker. It’s in a corner, headless, wireless, and always powered up to serve pictures and videos to my remote family. It works OK for the job. Even as a Microsoft evangelist, I don’t...

I received another entry to my programming contest in email: From: "Michael Scholz" Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:34 PM I started working on your programming contest, but I quickly tired of optimizing for how-clear-the-code-is. But then...

For the two people who read my blog who haven't already seen it, Scott Swanson , a PM on my extended team in Microsoft Visual Studio, is soliciting user feedback on a potential redesign of the help toolbar in Visual Studio Whidbey. Josh offers his thoughts...

Today on the way back from lunch, I had to do a double take as I walked by the building 4 lobby because there were ducks standing at the door, waiting to get in. “There are ducks at the door,” I said to the receptionist, thinking she must...

From Don's blog today: I spent most of the last decade honing my ability to absorb complexity and detail and translate that complexity into working programs. I'm spending this decade trying to make that premise seem ridiculous, at least on the platform...

I’m so steaming mad; I don’t even know where to start. I was minding my own business, surfing a little, reading some blogs, trying to take a break for a moment from the daily grind when I stumbled upon this beauty. It sounded like a real winner...

don't specify a __nogc pointer as the default (__gc) allows you to cover more scenarios... #using <mscorlib.dll> using namespace System ; __value class TheValueType { int i ; } ; __gc class TheReferenceType { public :...