November 2006 - Posts

Explaining MS samples
29 November 06 02:49 PM
In the category of, "things you wondered but never knew who to ask"... The Old New Thing blog explains were the common (and often comical to some presenters) MS sample company and site names come from, Contoso and Fabrikam . Heck....I just thought it Read More...
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Bill Gates interviewed by PBS's Charlie Rose
29 November 06 02:31 PM
Bill Gates was interviewed by Charlie Rose (PBS talk-show host) at Stanford. Watch the interview on Google Video . Read More...
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Special Interest vs Public Interest and ODF
29 November 06 01:11 PM
While I read /. on a semi-regular basis, my "affiliation" has a natural bias towards my employer ;) Anyway, for some reason this post and associated commentary thread held my attention. Apparently, Massachusetts has been at the forefront of advocating Read More...
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When SVCHOST does you wrong...
20 November 06 11:27 PM
Over the weekend, maybe late last week sometime, my old(er) HP laptop started giving me a: svchost.exe - Application Error Instruction at "blah blah blah" could not read[write] memory at 0x00000000. With an OK/Cancel button as the only option...and OK Read More...
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It's time
08 November 06 01:01 PM
Jim Allchin says It's Time - for Vista that is (RTM baby!!!). If you see someone from the Windows Vista team...buy them a drink - they probably could use one ;). Read More...
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Password TextBox tidbits
07 November 06 10:43 AM
Been away for a while....thought I'd post some stuff I learned while I was away from blogging. I had a need to display passwords in a DataGrid or list format. The credentials were in a name-value pair XML config file as part of a larger schema, where Read More...
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.NET 3.0 is ready
07 November 06 10:40 AM
.NET 3.0 released . Read More...
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