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Sunday, December 31, 2006 7:30 PM

Kool-Aid from the river Nile

You know the pun 'd' nile is not just a river in Egypt'. Usually in context to someone on total denial. And you know the popular statement about drinking the Kool-Aid usually in tech circles in reference to buying into something Microsoft related. Well,
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Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:49 AM

Community Credit- what a silly, great idea

I just became aware of Community Credit and thought this was the most ridiculous, silly and WTF tech site I had come across in some time. So I immediately joined because I also thought it just ROCKED . Check it out. I immediately thought of what a pain
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Friday, December 29, 2006 11:19 AM

Goodbye Dual Boot

Since the RTM of Vista I have had my development tablet dual booting with XP Pro SP2. Toshiba recently delivered all the final drivers and software that I was missing for Vista to make things function like the function keys, automatic screen rotation,
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Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:32 PM

Virtual Server and Vista

I thought I'd make a post on running Virtual Server R2 on Vista. I happened to run across the following blog entry today from one of my RSS feeds. It states you have to turn off UAC in Vista to run Virtual Server Administration Website. This isn't true.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 12:02 PM

Project Vertigo Underway Again

I'm proud to announce that I have finally cleared some time to get back to a far too long neglected project on CodePlex called Vertigo I have started back with a review of the as-is that Bernardo has left for me, added some work items for some immediate
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:42 AM

Free .NET 3.0 e-learning from Microsoft

This free e-learning from Microsoft has been out there for a while. I ran across it in a long neglected RSS feed I subscribe to. I can't vouch for the quality and depth but I registered and plan to carve out 6 hours for it over the next few weeks. I'll
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Monday, December 25, 2006 8:15 PM

Portable Reader System and Vista

I own a Sony Portablel Reader System and run Vista. The connect software required to sync the device and to also get to any books on the ebooks.connect.com website will not install in Vista. But guess what... I also still dual boot and the software does
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Monday, December 25, 2006 12:20 PM

Group Policy Team Blog : Security Policy Settings and User Account Control

Referenced below is a very enlightening article that if you have not read I highly recommned. I am finding out there is a lot more to UAC than I realized. Last week I finished my ramblings about Power Management and Group Policy. I decided to change this
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:19 PM

Congrats to the newest Bock

Jason Bock is a coworker out of the Magenic Minneapolis office. I wanted to give a shout out to the newest member of the Jason Bock nuclear family. Welcome to the outside world Master Ryan Alexander Bock. If you don't know Jason, or know of Jason I recommend
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:39 AM

TeamSysPUG

Don't forget if you are in the Boston area on Thursday, Dec. 21st (that's two days away from when this was posted) and have an interest in Visual Studio Team System drop in for the first monthly meeting of the Team System Public User Group. You can find
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Monday, December 18, 2006 11:43 AM

Data Dude- "Dude..."

I finally got around to using Data Dude a.k.a Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. All I can say is DUDE! This product rocks. I have to say I am exceptionally excited about adding this tool to the arsenal of tools we use in our development.
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:32 PM

Is that a booger?

Yes, I know that is a strange title for a blog entry. And I know I'll one day regret that when you Google 'booger' <cough> I mean live.com 'booger' (hmmmm.. doesn't have the same ring)... when one day you Google 'booger' my blog will come up. But
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Monday, December 11, 2006 11:01 AM

Jury Duty

Just completed a week of being part of a jury in a criminal case. It was very tiring. Amazing how when you use a different part of your brain all day that it drains you. Now I can get back to work and doing the things I like. More entries to come very
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