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September 2004 - Posts

Steve Makofsky Links to Widescreen Gaming Sites

Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:26 PM by Brianjo
OK, this is just what I needed. I don't have an actual widescreen TV, but I did get a widescreen monitor that I'm really liking a lot. Now my laptop and my desktop both do 1280 by 768 resolution. Steve found some resources for making games work at the Read More...
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Dave Winer Bought a TR3

Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:10 PM by Brianjo
It looks like Dave Winer bought a TR3 . I'm still loving mine. What's it like to own one of these? I had to double check to make sure it was in my backpack this morning. :) Read More...
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New CodeWise Community Page

Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:43 AM by Brianjo
There's a new CodeWise Community Page up on MSDN. This is a great place to go to find links to developer sites all over the net. About CodeWise The Code Wise Community site is your resource for third-party tips, code samples, advice, and news from independent Read More...
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Xbox HDTV Support

Posted Sunday, September 26, 2004 11:18 AM by Brianjo
This week I bought a widescreen monitor for my PC that also supports HDTV. I've got this hooked to my Xbox and so I was looking for the 1080i games to test things out. I found a great list here at HDTVArcade that shows the different resolutions supported Read More...
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Security Hands-On Lab

Posted Friday, September 24, 2004 11:29 PM by Brianjo
Microsoft Learning has posted a new security hands-on lab for IT pros. You can find out more here: Hands-On Lab 2811: Applying Microsoft® Security Guidance Training This hands-on lab allows students to apply information and guidance that can help Read More...
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Top 25 Games on Live

Posted Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:57 AM by Brianjo
Just in case anyone is interested, I found this page that contains the Top 25 Live games: Top 25 Xbox Live Games Worldwide You know what’s been spinning in your Xbox—how does it compare to what the rest of the Xbox Live™ community has Read More...
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Star Wars Battlefront

Posted Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:47 AM by Brianjo
OK, so yesterday my wife picked up a copy of Battlefront for me at Target. My kids love this game and I've spent a few hours playing online. What I find most amazing about this game is that it really makes you feel like you're in one of the movies. Scoble Read More...
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Kenny Kerr on Security

Posted Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:33 AM by Brianjo
This week on the Security and Visual C++ Developer Centers, we're going to headline a new article by Kenny Kerr . I've already gotten a few requests to headline this article. It was just posted Tuesday, so there's quite a bit of excitement over it. Defend Read More...
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Connexion by Boeing

Posted Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:13 AM by Brianjo
I found this post on thewifiweblog to be pretty interesting. They did some testing of in-flight wireless over Seattle and the results were good. Check it out here. First Hand Account of Connexion by Boeing Glenn Fleishman goes into detail about a recent Read More...
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XPSP2 at O'Reilly

Posted Friday, September 17, 2004 11:31 AM by Brianjo
Chris sent me a link to Mitch Tulloch's nice little summary article on Windows XP SP2 deployment. You can find it on O'Reilly's WindowsDevCenter.com . Deploying SP2--Or Not To deploy, or not to deploy: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the Read More...
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Action for Devs around MS04-028

Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:48 AM by Brianjo
Today we released two new security bulletins. MS04-028 is marked critical and there's specific action that Visual Studio users need to take with regards to this bulletin. Developers should read over the bulletin carefully and download and install the Read More...
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Visual C++ 2005 Tools Refresh Updated

Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 4:17 PM by Brianjo
We posted a new drop of the Visual C++ 2005 compiler for the Visual Studio 2005 Beta and the Visual C++ 2005 Express Beta. The version number is 40904. This update should fix all the problems that the previous tools release had with mismatched libraries Read More...
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Port Reporter Tools

Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:58 PM by Brianjo
Tim Rains let me know that they posted a Port Reporter Parser utility to the Microsoft Download Center. The Port Reporter Parser Utility makes it much easier to review your port reporter logs. There's a bunch of stuff to look at if you're interested in Read More...
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Platform SDK Update with Windows XP SP2 Support

Posted Thursday, September 02, 2004 5:00 PM by Brianjo
I saw on Mitch Walker's blog that the Windows XP SP2 Platform SDK has been added to the SDK Update site. You can download it from this page: Microsoft Platform SDK Click on the Windows XP SP2 link on the left of that page to get to the XPSP2 Platform Read More...
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Channel 9 Features Scott Currie This Week

Posted Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:16 AM by Brianjo
Scott Currie is on Channel 9 this week talking about Visual C++. Here are links to the interviews published so far: Scott Currie - Demo of Quake on .NET Scott, program manager on the Visual C++ team, shows off a demo of Quake running on .NET and talks Read More...
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Upgrading COM Applications to .NET with Visual C++ 2005

Posted Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:00 AM by Brianjo
Just a quick reminder that this chat is today at 12:00 PM (PST) (19:00 GMT). Here's a link to the chats page and this link will add a reminder to your Outlook calendar. Read More...
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