January 2007 - Posts
Hi all - I'm at BYU for the career fair tomorrow (Wednesday). Come on down and talk to us and bring a resume - I met a lot of you at the dinner tonight (thanks for coming) which was great fun. We're also going to be doing some mock technical interviews
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While reading blog comments about Welcome Center, I came across this entry on how to remove welcome center at first boot. ... With a simple .reg file though, you can kill Windows Welcome Center dead on first boot — simply put the following into your .reg
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Just discovered this jeep waterfall that's been going around the internet. It's a cool idea - and making the video was a great way to generate buzz (I would never have seen it otherwise).
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I was just looking at the Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista video. Wow. It's gorgeous. It's nice to see people doing amazing things with Avalon/WPF. I was particularly impressed with the great flow and visual as you select the background color
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From Bernie's review of Windows Vista's killer features ... Guided Help and Automated Diagnostics -- A large number of help desk calls are for simple technical issues that aren't difficult to resolve but are somewhat time consuming to explain to a remote
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I was taking a smile spotting survey that I found from Kathy Sierra's blog (good reading) and I know a little bit about how to tell a fake smile from a real one (in theory) and I thought it would be fun to see how good I was at it. At the beginning,
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I was looking at the Windows Vista Reliability and Performance Monitor and noticed that the data collector sets for System Diagnostics included a SMART disk check. I've been waiting for Windows to make better use of SMART and hadn't noticed that
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Here's Microsoft's CES website. There's a ton of interesting stuff on here. The one that will probably impact me the most is Group Shot . Not that the rest isn't incredibly cool, it's just that I have the groupshot problem a lot . :) These two images
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Well, I've put the WMI folder code up on codeplex . Please remember that this code is very much pre-alpha. I think that this will be a good way to share the code, allow others to contribute, etc. If it works well, then I will probably create codeplex
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