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January 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:35 PM

Recruiting at BYU

Hi all - I'm at BYU for the career fair tomorrow (Wednesday). Come on down and talk to us and bring a resume - I met a lot of you at the dinner tonight (thanks for coming) which was great fun. We're also going to be doing some mock technical interviews
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:13 PM

RE: How to get rid of that pesky Windows Welcome Center at FIRST boot

While reading blog comments about Welcome Center, I came across this entry on how to remove welcome center at first boot. ... With a simple .reg file though, you can kill Windows Welcome Center dead on first boot — simply put the following into your .reg
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:40 PM

Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

I was just looking at the Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista video. Wow. It's gorgeous. It's nice to see people doing amazing things with Avalon/WPF. I was particularly impressed with the great flow and visual as you select the background color (pictured,
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:55 AM

Bernie Klinder ♡ Guided Help

From Bernie's review of Windows Vista's killer features ... Guided Help and Automated Diagnostics -- A large number of help desk calls are for simple technical issues that aren't difficult to resolve but are somewhat time consuming to explain to a remote
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:21 AM

Smile spotting - can you tell the difference?

I was taking a smile spotting survey that I found from Kathy Sierra's blog (good reading) and I know a little bit about how to tell a fake smile from a real one (in theory) and I thought it would be fun to see how good I was at it. At the beginning, I
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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:41 PM

Using WMIC to check for predicted disk failure (S.M.A.R.T. analysis)

I was looking at the Windows Vista Reliability and Performance Monitor and noticed that the data collector sets for System Diagnostics included a SMART disk check. I've been waiting for Windows to make better use of SMART and hadn't noticed that there
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:09 PM

Microsoft CES website - Group Shot pictures

Here's Microsoft's CES website. There's a ton of interesting stuff on here. The one that will probably impact me the most is Group Shot . Not that the rest isn't incredibly cool, it's just that I have the groupshot problem a lot . :) These two images
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM

WMI Folder - codeplex project

Well, I've put the WMI folder code up on codeplex . Please remember that this code is very much pre-alpha. I think that this will be a good way to share the code, allow others to contribute, etc. If it works well, then I will probably create codeplex
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