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…but its programmers are on the ball.
Shortly after I posted my last entry (Visual 2008…) and left a comment on this blog, two programmers from Microsoft left comments offering assistance in troubleshooting the speed issues with Visual...
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Regarding Base-64: Trying to solve an ASP.NET issue…
Update: Thanks to WordPress.com automagically linking related posts to each other, I think I may have found a potential solution to this issue here: Invalid character in a Base-64 string (ASP.NET) The...
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Lifehacker: Sysinternals Live is One-Stop Shop for Launching Must-Have Utilities
Another awesome post from Lifehacker…maybe I should just add their RSS feed as a widget on the sidebar. If you’ve ever done any serious Windows troubleshooting, you’ve no doubt come across a freeware...
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Run Windows Apps from your Existing Windows Partition in Linux « Mohammad Azimi
Found this article from a linkback to my post “Feature: Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop“… I saw a post this morning showing you can run Windows applications from a virtual Windows...
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NTFS junction point – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NTFS junction point – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: An NTFS junction point (JP) is a feature of the NTFS file system version 3.0 or later. It is a type of NTFS reparse point. Junction Points can be...
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Play Oregon Trail The Way You Remember It
Great article from How-To Geek about playing classic Oregon Trail on Windows… I am a sucker for nostalgic computer games. Oregon Trail was the first computer game I ever played on the Apple IIe...
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Windows Photo Gallery: Beige Color Fix
This seems to be a pretty common problem in Windows Vista, related to invalid/corrupt color profiles – if you’re experiencing this issue, you’ll see a beige color bleeding through the image from the...
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How-To Geek: Run a Command as Administrator from the Windows Vista Run box...
Now that I’ve finally made the leap to install Windows Vista on my home computer, I thought it might be useful to dig through some old (and new) guides to keep Vista from annoying me as much as it did...
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ICK! Color Profile FAIL!
Update: Here’s the link to the Samsung 225BW driver and color profile: Samsung 225BW Driver I’ve been having ridiculous problems with the color profiles on my Samsung SyncMaster 225BW. I’m pretty sure...
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Making XAMPP (Apache) work with IIS on Windows XP/Vista
Update: This application will help you track down which applications are using which ports on Windows – very helpful for debugging if the steps below don’t solve your problem, or if IIS is not the only...
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BlogFodder: List Of Free / Open Source ASP.NET Web Applications
I started looking for free/open-source ASP.NET applications to run on my development instance of IIS (since IIS is already running on my machine), and stumbled upon this list today: As a big ASP.NET...
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ASP.NET: Starter Kits and Community Projects
In relation to the last post, here are some starter kits and projects officially listed at Microsoft’s own ASP.NET site (http://www.asp.net/community/projects/) Starter Kits DotNetNuke® Web...
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How-To Geek: Using Symlinks in Windows Vista
I haven’t tried using my favorite XP junction tool, NTFS-Link, since I upgraded my home computer to Windows Vista, and I’m a little apprehensive since the filesystem has changed a bit. Nonetheless, if...
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Microsoft Word: Strikethrough Shortcut Key
This is freakin’ awesome; I had no idea that you could assign keyboard shortcuts this easily: From word.tips.net: Press Ctrl+D or choose Font from the Format menu. (If you are using Word 2007, press...
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baadf00d!
Came across this while debugging a program today in Eclipse: 0xBAADF00D : Used by Microsoft‘s LocalAlloc(LMEM_FIXED) to mark uninitialised allocated heap memory...
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Prevent Startup Programs from Running Twice in Windows XP
Finally! This problem was bugging me for so long – I just now thought to research it and found this article. Very helpful! Prevent Startup Programs from Running Twice in Windows XP A way to solve the...
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KB971092 won’t install (Visual Studio 2008 Security Fix)
From Microsoft Connect: (https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=478117) Until Microsoft come up with an official solution there is a working workaround for...
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Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager
RDCMan In Action Incredibly useful tool for managing multiple remote desktop (RDP) connections, and allows you to view, connect, and disconnect from groups of server connections as a whole or...
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VS2010: My Favorite Extensions
VS2010 - My Favorite Extensions My favorite feature of VS2010 so far is the excellent extension support, which allows me to add in my favorite plugins from the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery. Since...
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Mind = Blown.
IE9 Beta - Acid3 Score: 95% Firefox 3.6 - Acid3 Score: 94% Internet Explorer beat Firefox on the Acid3 test? I think it must be a cold day in hell. (IE9 is actually pretty badass; I’m very impressed...
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