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September 2006 - Jedi Meditations

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  • Team Foundation Server - First Thoughts

    The latest project I'm working on is using Visual Studio 2005, and the license we have allows us to use Team Foundation Server (TFS) Workgroup Edition. The Workgroup Edition is limited to 5 users, but is otherwise fully functional. Taking some advice...
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  • Vista and Administrative Shares

    I am used to remotely connecting to the file system on my computers via administrative shares. On previous versions of Windows, the hard drive volumes were automatically exposed as administrative shares - C$, D$ and so forth. The "$" at the end of a share...
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  • Tracking A Shipment To The Dark Side Of The Moon

    Recently, I bought a nice shiny piece of home audio gear on eBay. I bought it from a fellow in the United States, and the next day the item was shipped via UPS. Though I knew it would take a week to get here, I still like to track my packages on the Internet...
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  • Vista RC1 - Not Quite There Yet

    Microsoft recently released the so-called first "Release Candidate" for the next version of Windows, called "Vista." The geek that I am, I had downloaded previous Vista betas with the intention of installing and using them, but some how I never quite...
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  • Grocery Store "Per-Fork" Licensing

    This is a funny story from many years ago (and what seems like many lifetimes ago for me) that I thought I would share. Back in the late 90s, I was working for one of Canada's large grocery store chains in their IT department. I was tasked with setting...
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  • In-line Search with Internet Explorer

    So, Internet Explorer 7 is just about finished, and it's a general all-around improvement. At the very least it brings IE into the 21st century. I think it still lacks a lot in the CSS standards compliance area (making cross-browser sites even HARDER...
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  • Blu-Ray: First Strike!

    I was in the Halifax Future Shop store yesterday for my weekly gawk at tech toys. Though I've been following some of the new format war of HD DVD vs Blu-Ray, I haven't been paying too much attention to it since a) I don't really have a budget to be looking...
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