December 2006 - Posts
BITS is Microsoft's background intelligent transfer service. It's used to transfer files without it bothering you (roughly). The goal is to use idle bandwidth, so it doesn't affect that streaming radio station that you like, your video chat, etc. The
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Sabarinath had this to say about Guided Help: Guided Help While this feature is still under beta, I believe this would be an interesting feature to have. In addition to having descriptive help files, Guided Help teaches you visually how to do the tasks.
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This tool allows you to send in junk email so that others won't have to read it and hopefully others similar too it won't make it into your inbox. It's carefully done so that your privacy is respected (it's not automatic so you won't accidentally be sending
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Well, there's a lot of story to the last couple days so I'm going to bite it off in pieces. Here's the story of our uninvited Christmas trees. Backstory to follow. Here's tree #1 - but it's not our house. This is our neighbor's house - their cars were
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I've been enjoying having more control over my blog up at http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesfi and so I figured that I'd try actually owning the site myself. This is a little annoying, but I'm going to cross-post to my msdn blog and my spaces blog
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I know this is stupid - but I still can't resist sharing. What blender manufacturers do when they get bored...
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The Wii is just cool - I have a lot of friends asking me if I can get them a discount on it and I have to explain to them that it's not a Microsoft product. But it clearly appeals to a whole new group of people - these are generally folks that have never
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Okay, I changed my mind, I wrote a book after all Back in 1993, I wrote that I'm doing this instead of writing a book . That was true then, but last year I decided to give this book thing another go, only to find that publishers generally aren't interested
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