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Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:47 PM

I am .exe

Which File Extension are You? Source: Bryant
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Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:05 AM

Comments SPAM

Whew couple of bad days with the comments spam. Not sure to why these should happen even from the blogging world. I hate this. Had got around 100-110 mails every 8 hrs:(. And cleaning them on my email account has made life not so easy. Thanks to Bryant
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Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:00 AM

Shrink VPC Image

I had this unique requirement that I had to compact a .vhd image file as it had grown too big. Was looking for a feature in VPC to do this trick for me. A bit of searching amde me come to an conclusion that this was not possible. But during a quick ping
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Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:06 AM

Google is back and acquires Keyhole Corp

"With Keyhole, you can fly like a superhero from your computer at home to a street corner somewhere else in the world - or find a local hospital, map a road trip or measure the distance between two points," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president, Product
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Monday, October 25, 2004 4:50 PM

Another TechEd

First it was MS TechEd2004 followed by Intel's Developer Forum followed by MS SAF (Architect Forum) and now its turn of SAP TechEd ...
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Monday, October 25, 2004 4:39 PM

Desktop search tools

Its was google then it was turn of Microsoft ...
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Monday, October 25, 2004 11:11 AM

CODE COVERAGE EDITION - .NET Framework Version 2.0

The .NET Framework Version 2.0 Code Coverage Edition Beta 1 is a special edition of the .NET Framework redistributable package that enables developers to give Microsoft direct feedback on what portions of the .NET Framework and Win32 their applications
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Monday, October 25, 2004 10:46 AM

My last 10 days

Hmmm. Excuses after excuses. But believe me this is true. I am yet to get out of the shock :) ... Well, I was not able to keep this for long with me. Wanted to write about this and got the time just now ... It was wrap-up time for me at SCT and preparing
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:37 PM

Check Your Updates

Important MS04-029 Microsoft Windows Information Disclosure and Denial of Service Important MS04-030 Microsoft Windows Denial of Service Important MS04-031 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution Critical MS04-032 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:18 PM

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains the latest software updates for Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 that improve the reliability, performance and manageability of Virtual PC. Download PC .
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:01 PM

10 Steps to Help Secure SQL Server 2000

Here are ten things you can do today to improve the security of your SQL Server installation. Read it on MSDN .
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:18 PM

FAQ for Windows Forms

Can be viewed here . Source: AV
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:13 PM

Whats New in Yukon Beta3

EntMag takes stock of the same ... Read it here .
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:11 PM

SQL Server 2005 To Get ActiveViews Reporting

“Microsoft is putting ActiveViews end-user reporting capabilities into its next-generation SQL Server 2005 database” Most awaited news for sometime. Read it at Crn.com
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:08 PM

SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting

A set of six reports with a sample database to let you easily visualize and author managed reports to support key finance activities. Interesting set and download it here .
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:07 PM

SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft Exchange

A set of 13 Microsoft Exchange-based reports with a sample database that lets you easily visualize and author managed reports for e-mail administration. Download it here .
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:02 PM

SQL Server Integration Services

If you are wondering what this is, well this is nothing special but our own DTS. This is one of the outcome of the PASS Summit that held last month. Source: Tom and WinNet
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:57 PM

NerdDinner.Com

Check out the web site. http://www.nerddinner.com/blogs/ Promoted by Developer Evangelist Jim Blizzard and Regional Director Scott Hanselman, from Portland Oregon. “Welcome to NerdDinner.Com, home to all hungry nerds. If you're interested in starting
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:55 PM

Gmail account as a extended online storage solution

The drive will appear as a normal drive under My Computer. Check http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm Source: Anando ( Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User)
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:53 PM

Dell to Recall 990,000 Laptop Power Adapters

Read the story at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=1&u=/nm/20041008/tc_nm/tech_dell_recall_dc
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:09 PM

Sun's Java Infringes on Kodak Patents

The Friday verdict at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York ruled Sun had violated all counts in the patent infringement case. Tuesday, the jury will decide how much to penalize the company. Kodak is asking for $1.6 billion in damages.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:06 PM

MSN Search technology preview 2

Visit it here today ...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:45 AM

MOM 2005 and Virtual Server 2005 U.S. Launch Events

Register today to get a seat of the launch event ...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:01 PM

Most Valuable Student Program

Did you know there exists one such program in France? But this is not same to MVP program. It is just an extension for marking the students community for their work for community and peer interaction on technology fronts. Click here for more ...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:40 AM

Point of Service Terminals

Windows Embedded for Point of Service is: a software platform that enables retail and hospitality organizations to simplify the setup, use and management of their point of service (POS) systems the first industry-specific software platform to provide
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:36 AM

Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 Technology Preview

The Windows XP Embedded with SP2 Technology Preview is available for download via the Windows Embedded Web site. Download it here ...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:34 AM

Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows

As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn't end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source
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Monday, October 04, 2004 4:43 PM

Did you know!!!

There are 2617 MVP's as of this Oct nomination cycle. Thats quite a bit of stat ... Was really surprised to see this number. Happy to be one among them :) ...
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Friday, October 01, 2004 4:13 PM

MSDN @ Campus report

It’s been an exciting trip to down south, been hot off-late with patches of rain. But when I landed in Madurai it was pretty warm and sunny. Not a surprise for me at this point of the year. I landed on Wednesday morning for a session at TCE on Thursday
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Friday, October 01, 2004 11:41 AM

New on ExtremeExperts

Batching DML Operation in SQL Server Pass your comments :)
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Friday, October 01, 2004 11:34 AM

Support Tools Available For Stress Testing & Performance Analysis

This download provides two main tools used by the Microsoft SQL Server Product Support teams, Read80Trace and OSTRESS. Read80Trace is a command line utility for processing trace files generated by SQL Server 2000. OSTRESS is a multithreaded ODBC-based
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Friday, October 01, 2004 11:20 AM

One year completed!!!

As I sit at my office desk to release the next version of the product that I work with, I just came to my blog to pin down some of the facts this Oct means to me. I know this is very important for me !!! Same time last year I became a MVP. It is a memorable
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