Jason Nadal
Restless C#ding
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Awaiting Windows Vista Feb CTP
I'm eagerly awaiting the rumored February CTP of Windows Vista. Bink.nu reports it will be made available today, February 22nd
21st. Also rumored to be in this build is the return of the prodigal sidebar. We shall see....
Update: apparently it's been pushed back a day, according to this article. Thanks for the update, Jesse Ezell -
Virtual Machine failure
While I've had plenty of experience in fixing seemingly dead physical machines, the death of my Team Foundation Server Dec. CTP machine has me flummoxed. It just sits there with a blinking cursor when I start the vitual machine up. This leads me to the following potential problems:
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Streaming with /mceDivX360
I finally found a way to stream DivX movies fairly reliably to my XBOX 360... This is a freeware addin for Windows Media Center called /mceDivX360.
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Free torrent source code
After being away for a couple of days on vacation & catching up, here's a bit more of a frivolous post.
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SQLCMD Mode (SQL Management Studio)
By entering SQLCMD mode in a SQL Server Management Studio query window, you can do some very handy things without needing to jump back out to the command prompt.
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Central NJ User Group Meetings
I just got back from the first meeting of the Central NJ .NET User Group, hosted in East Windsor, NJ area by Jason Beres (Infragistics). There was a pretty good showing, especially for a first meeting; I would estimate 20-30 people. There was good pizza, time to network, & a talk by Miguel Castro on intro ASP.NET 2.0 topics.
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How to increase Exchange Server Database past the 18gb limit
After hitting the 16gb limit in Exchange 2003 a while ago, we decided to use the temporary 1gb extension registry key to let the mail store start again so we could clean up old emails & have a mail store again.
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Making Musician Rehearsal tapes via Simulated Instruments
Through the use of Creative's SoundFont technology, you can get a pretty realistic sounding rehearsal tape for free, depending on the type of music you're working on. Here's a link to tons of different sounfont sites, with the key being the larger ones are usually better, including a few full orchestral sound fonts to let you play out full scores.
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Team System Training / Tutorials
I had found "Team System Rocks" a few days ago; the site is full of video / powerpoint combo tutorials to either or both show how to accomplish simple tasks in what is at first a daunting interface, or explain the architectural concepts behind the TFS (Team Foundation Server) API and framework.
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Team Foundation Server, For Free (Sorta)
As word gets out that Team Foundation Server has been signed off to RC (release candidate), which should be made available on MSDN soon, the plans for budget allocation and boss-justification must loom close for those who plan or hope to use it. Thankfully after a long, widespread blog dialog, involving key Microsoft decision-makers all the way up to "Soma" Somasegar, there may be a simple no-cost, free, limited solution for small teams. To appease the masses, MS is making available to those MSDN customers who currently have a "role" subscription (one of the premium MSDN subscriptions, aka a migrated Universal or Enterprise MSDN subscription) a free-for-five-users version of Team Foundation Server. They will still only have access to the development tools included in their role, and would need to purchase the Team Suite edition of Visual Studio to get the benefits of other roles, but at least now will have the following: