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Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:09 AM

Using OMSpy to “fix” the bug with the image rotator

I wanted to show the output of OMSpy in case someone wants to get very bold and use it to update the XML on a OneNote page to work around the limitations I mentioned on Monday with the image rotator . Let's start with a simple image to use for testing:
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:03 AM

This should be an interesting talk to hear in September

Remember back in June I mentioned Mark Russinovich had talked about his experience starting at Microsoft? I still keep up with his blog (and any tester should keep an eye on it as well) so this notice I received stood out to me. Mark is giving an online
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Attachment(s): SAVE THE DATE Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable - Windows Vista Performance.ics
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:07 AM

Using a TRS-80 to find a bug with the image rotator in OneNote

One of my hobbies which I never have time for is playing around with my old TRS-80 Color Computer . For those that remember this old machines, the majority of software was distributed in magazines and books, and you had to type the code in yourself to
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:34 AM

Saying “goodbye to our intern” leads to a reason why a bug did not get fixed in Office 97

Anirudh Saraf is winding up his internship this week. He's been pretty busy while here - diving into the subtleties of Hyper-V , learning how to get machines working on our network domain, moving into Windows Server 2008, learning our automation system
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Monday, August 18, 2008 6:59 AM

How To Modify OneNote toolbar buttons for installed addins

Rainald Tassler, one of OneNote's MVPs, had contacted me a while back asking to have the Table of Contents powertoy tweaked to show a button on the toolbar rather than a text string. The text strings tend to take up too much horizontal space on the toolbar
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:03 AM

Code for image rotator and some upcoming work for test

I got a request a few days ago to see about posting the code for the image rotator powertoy. Gary agreed to go ahead and release his code and you can get it here now. The link is at the bottom of this entry. Another request that comes up every so often
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Attachment(s): Imagetools.zip
Friday, August 08, 2008 1:35 PM

The thing about leaving your office for any amount of time around here…

…is the number of people who insist on decorating it while you are gone.  I came into my office.  Ceiling Cat was making sure to look over me and keep me safe: and wall cat was there too: I called phone cat to make sure he was OK: robot cat
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:41 AM

Using a cell phone as a modem and using OneNote in the real world again

So my "two week" navy training lasted just shy of four weeks this year. I was very busy, but can't remember anything I did… One challenge I had was trying to get an internet connection working. My phone, a T-Mobile Wing, has the old $6/month data plan
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:57 AM

I'm out until August

I've tried to keep this up to date twice a week since I started. Like most other people who run blogs, I did not want to post a few entries and then give up. I want to let you know I will be out of touch for the next few weeks and won't be updating this
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Monday, June 30, 2008 10:40 AM

Sudoku Addin for OneNote beta is available

Carlos Rivera has been working feverishly over the last few weeks to polish Sudoku for OneNote addin, and I'm proud to announce he has released his beta version today! You can get it here (the link is also below), or over at the codeplex site ( www.codeplex.com/onom
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Attachment(s): OneNote Sudoku Addin.zip
Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:07 AM

Fixing the Lenovo tablet. Again.

The hard drive on my Lenovo had died. It would not even pass the BIOS level hardware test during the tablet's startup. I had an external case for EIDE drives which I had used in the past when my drive on my laptop at home died and I brought it in to see
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Monday, June 23, 2008 8:51 AM

Office New Employee Training

I was able to attend "New Hire Training" for Office last week. At Microsoft, all newly hired people go through a day or two of training to get used to Microsoft, get your card key/badge and general agenda like that. Mark Russinovich talked about his experiences
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:48 AM

Some quick power consumption testing with a "new to me" tablet

The Lenovo I had been using has given up the ghost. The hard drive in it has physically died - it won't boot, nor pass the BIOS diagnostics. I now have managed to get assigned a Fujitsu Lifebook - a "hand-me-down" from another tester who no longer needs
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Monday, June 16, 2008 8:54 AM

Tying up one loose end and starting another

In February 2008 I mentioned some extra functionality built into our "napkin math" system. I sent the details to our technical writers and waited to see how long it would take to get the online help article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA102140621033.aspx
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:25 AM

Problems with meetings (not OneNote or even software related!)

Even testers need to have meetings now and then, and during my 40% of the week last week, we had two of "those meetings" back to back. In the first meeting, we could not get the overhead projector working with the first tablet we tried. The
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