"How do you call two rainy days in a row in Seattle? Weekend!" For reference, Labor Day is September 7th here, so we have a long weekend: from Saturday September 5th ro Monday September 7th: As usual from the personal blog ...

It was a logn time ago, so, I guess, it's ok to tell this story at last... Well, everybody knows what "checkin" is, right? That's when you send your updated, fixed or new code to the depository for safekeeping. There is a lot of systems for that. OpenSource...

Some time ago I've got an Amazon Flip camera. I loved it, but one thing did not worked well: I've got the basic one and it did not had the jack for a tripod. Not good... The answer happened to be simpler than I expected. You may want to watch this video...

Recently, in one of the current economic crisis disccusions, I saw a link to a Working Paper #666 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. At first I thought it's a prank. Well, the number alone sounds like some dark humor. Nope. It was not. I went...

Pardon for another non-technical post, but I thought it may be interesting. A friend of mine, a professor at the University of Texas, presented an article of his student, introducing some mathmatical theory explaining the roots of today crisis in economy...

I know, it sounds odd in the modern world where code reviews are almost like one of the Sacred Commandments, that is taken religiously and you could be burned at the stake for not respecting it. So, please, hold with me for a little heresy… No, I don...

Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson – Hyperion, 2006/2008, 267 p., ISBN 978-1-4013-0966-4 This book is almost a classic by now, so if you did not heard about it, at least...

Just a few days ago I tried, and I fit perfectly into the suite, in which I came into the United States from Russia in now so old 1996 year. Since that I fattened a lot on Cola, pizzas and other dubious food substitutes from 195 pounds to almost 255...

...but not the way it was before. My Russian blog on Technet is flooded with readers, and I am wondering if I could bring some of that value to English-speaking audience. First, while I still will publish an occasional technical piece or two, the...

I just wanted to let readers of my blog know that I just left Windows Home Server team and won't be available for questions about this product anymore. Good resources are: Windows Home Server team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/ ...

No, really? Suppose, you’ve got a certificate from some certificate authority, installed it in the localmachine store, and then your application cannot see it!!! What happened? Is it a bug? Is it a virus? Did somebody stole you precious key??? Not quite...

Sergey was the dev manager of Windows Home Server and one of three people, for whom I decided to leave BizTalk Server and join Windows Home Server team. He is a remarkable person and a friend of mine. Some time ago he left Microsoft for Google, but he...

One of the problematic spots for Windows Home Server are the networks, where it is supposed to work. During Beta-testing we found that home networks are often not up to the task. It's either the name resolution, or UPnP does not go through, or some other...

Windows Home Server System Builder Edition is now available on NewEgg.com , and some companies already offering it on Amazon.com site . As a reminder, System Builder Edition is a standalone software without support. Like OEM edition it is supposed...

A new book on WHS was published last month (September 13): Microsoft Windows Home Server Unleashed by Paul McFedries . Very thick, 912 pages. What's interesting is that the author not merely pointed out which buttons to press -- that's something...

Site TerraCode.com tells about a project to create a Windows Home Server based system that looks like a book and quitely sits on a bookshelf while serving music and video to PS3 or XBox360. with permission from (c) Terracode.com The most fun part...

During our crusade for Home Server and Beta programs we faced a multitude of home network configurations. We learned a lot, and some of that we did not like. In fact, that's our beta-participants who did not like that, it's just they did not know what...

You can view it here: http://www.on10.net/Blogs/larry/watch-windows-home-server-rtm/ As far as I know, it's the first case at Microsoft when the product sign-off is captured on video and published.

In fact, it was signed off by the end of last week, but the public announcement just went out today. It feels good!

This document is published here because there is no way to publish images on forum. It's written primarily to help our support people, and we are publishing it to help troubleshooting problems with the server join process for Windows Home Server for Beta...

Just found a huge list of HR codes... BTW, let me explain the type of information I publish here. It's not exactly a blog, it's rather a public notebook, where I put the stuff I want to be at hand, and if somebody else will find it useful, so better!...

Authors in the New Age genre like to quote so called out-of-body-experience like memories of people who survivedd clinical death, tunnel with the light in the end and so on. Today I found that this is not a purely human phenomena... Suppose you wrote...

Did you ever see the error message "LNK1104: cannot open file 'c:\Program.obj'"? No need to say that you are not that kind of a programmer who generates OBJ files in the root of disk C:... So, what's up and how to fix that? Either use short 8.3 path...

(he) Sometimes, we have to put 10,000 lines into a single scrollbox. Computer hangs, memory consumption goes through the roof, slider is too small, nothing works. What would you do?...

The problem: normally, you use DLLImport and P/Invoke. However, it only works if DLL is loaded. For normal program you can put it into the same folder as managed executable, and everything will be just fine. Not for ASP.NET, which is compiled into an...