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Interesting tracing technology…

This paper describes an interesting technology that Sun had been working on for quite some time and is now in production. The technology allows an IT admin to do deep performance analysis on parts of the system without having to … Continue reading

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Neat Flash Sites

I haven’t seen these, so they may be old, but they are neat… http://www.romiglia.com/esenciales/index.html http://www.neostream.com/

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Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2005

Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System.

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Listening to Joe Trippi this morning…

I listened to Joe talk about the Dean campaign this morning on Forum with Michael Krazny. The guy made some interesting points. After listening to him and seeing Fahrenheit 9/11, I feel like I can no longer trust the press. … Continue reading

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Napoleon Dynamite

Ok, saw the movie. Did I like it? Heck Yes! I recommend going to see it on a big screen near you. Oh yeah, if you haven’t seen Fahrenheit 9/11, I would see that first.

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On the Gall Bladder

Well, it’s been over a month since mine was removed. If you can avoid getting rid of yours, well that is good. If you do need to get rid of yours, you’ll be fine. I haven’t had any symptoms nor … Continue reading

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Larry Hagman is not dead. He is more alive than most of us.

I was reading the SF Chronicle the other day. There was a short article stating that Larry Hagman is not dead. Larry is probably most famous as the character J.R. from the show ‘Dallas’. He was also widely known as … Continue reading

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Using the old RegOpenKey (from Win 3.1), guess what it’s access mask is

Little tidbit. If you happen to be using the old RegOpenKey (from Win 3.1), guess what it’s access mask is? If you look in MSDN, they will say that the key is opened with the ‘default security mask’. Well, I … Continue reading

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