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It's called "Never Gonna Give You Up" and has a rather catchy tune. Give it a listen. You'd be surprised. edit: Hopefully fixed. They don't exactly allow YouTube.com from work. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Bertrand Meyer is a programming language guru,*computer*scientist and arguably the uncle of object oriented programming :). Bertrand created the Eiffel programming language. Eiffel is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It's a very powerful language that has impacted the evolution of the more popular general purpose OO languages such as Java and C#. With the arrival of multi-core and soon-to-arrive many-core chipsets concurrency and parallelism are top-of-mind for general purpose language designers these days. Bertrand has introduced the SCOOP model on top of Eiffel. SCOOP is a comprehensive effort to make concurrent and distributed programming simple and safe, taking advantages of Eiffel's object technology and Design by Contract. General purpose programming language designer and passionate functional programmig advocate Erik Meijer leads the discussion in this addition of Expert to Expert. You all know Erik by now. He's one of our favorite technical celebrities. He and his small team of innovators continue to*build great tools for software developers. Very special guest star and famous mathematical logician*Yuri Gurevich joins us for the first half of the conversation (He happened to be in Bertrand's office when we arrived :)). This is a long conversation that I hope you eenjoy as much as I do. Find yourself some quality time to listen and learn from this chat amongst some the world's finest programming thinkers. Enjoy! Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Everytime my pc*shutsdown, it blue screens after about 7 minutes. It says "Shutting Down" for about 7 minutes and then dies. When I restart, I get a message saying that Windows wasn't properly shutdown. I used the Dump Debugger thing that was mentioned in the NVidea thread, but it isn't so helpful. The message is: Probably caused by : ntkrnlpa.exe ( nt+d8681 ) So my kernal is bad? This is a brand new (just installed < 12 hours) installation on a brand new PC. Another wierd thing is that when I try to intsall the intel ACHP drivers, it says my machine doesn't meet the minimum requirements, but I know it does as its a G33 Express board with a Q6600 chip and daul SATA HDD's. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Because the CH needs a laugh, with all the fighting that's been going on! Post your jokes :) .. Bishop came to our church last sunday F*cking fake Never once moved diagonally .. Yours? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Scott Austin is the Business Manager of Xbox Live Arcade and he works with developers and game publishers who are looking at pushing the boundaries of what's possible on Xbox Live arcade. You'll here Scott talk about what recent game developers are building new styles of gameplay, incorporating the time dimension, enabling sharing user generated content like sharing custom maps, leaderboard storage to enable "spectator" mode for casual games, or new input devices like enabling motion-detection cameras to play games like pinball. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have been able to launch a batch file from a C# program in a number of ways. Duncan Mackenzie's blog on msdn shows a number of ways how it can be done and I have tried them. (http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/06/01/146375.aspx). But I have a unique problem. The batch file launches a program that seems to require that a command window (cmd) be open when it runs.* Because of this, the batch file works if I launch it from a command line, but when I launch it in a C# program, an exception is thrown. So my question is this.* How can I open a cmd window from C# and feed it the command to run the batch routine? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/A/ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-03-27-09-45-15 Photoshop Express will be completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system and browser. And, once they register, users can get to their accounts from different computers. Now that will be interesting to see how they make it compatible over all the browsers. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/photos/paul/images/458911/original.aspx*World’s First 65-Watt Quad-Core Desktop Processor Imagine experiencing the powerful computing capabilities of* multi-core architecture with a processor operating at only 65 watts. The AMD Phenom X4 9100e processor embodies a series of AMD energy-efficient innovations, combined with the 780 chipset and the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of GPUs, you'll get a multimedia, multitasking, multi-monitor phenomena. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

With the release of XP Service Pack 3 coming up, it's time to reevaluate Windows XP for a final time: Is it still good enough? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've made minor changes to the Windows XP Service Pack 3 FAQ to address this week's release of the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Refresh build (5508)! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? New York Times Blogs, NY - 4 minutes ago Another example: When Microsoft was developing Windows Vista, it actually permitted its programmers to blog about their progress. There was a security blog, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm looking for some training and hoping someone can point me in theright direction.* There's tons of C# training out there, but what I'mlooking for now is something that relates to application designconcepts - Patterns, Best Practices,* etc. *The only thing I've found is this company : http://www.dofactory.com *Anyone else know of anything? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Motion Computing going? Geekzone, New Zealand - 53 minutes ago Prince on Free Microsoft Windows Vista Professional and Micr: Can i have Windows Vista plz. reply me on my E-mail id. it is prncvrm@gmail.com,... nosbus on ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Motion Computing going? Geekzone, New Zealand - 8 minutes ago Prince on Free Microsoft Windows Vista Professional and Micr: Can i have Windows Vista plz. reply me on my E-mail id. it is prncvrm@gmail.com,... nosbus on ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was able to visit Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta to see an old friend, Don Browning, and we were lucky enough to bring along Peter Provost to talk about agile methodologies, processes, and tools.* Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi there, can anyone point me in the direction*of where I'm going wrong here.* I have written two functions, basically the same as countless examples on web.. - One is passed an array of bytes as a parameter and returns a compressed array of bytes - The other (surprise surprise) is passed the compressed array and (is meant to) return an uncompressed array. I have temporarily added code to parallel the compression/decompression to file, curious to see if that worked. The gist of this is, the "compression function" writes the same number of bytes to file as it returns as an array. The "decompression" function decompresses the file version back to the original size, but the attempt to do simlar on memory is failing. The point that it seems to go awry is documented.**After positioning the underlying MemoryStream position to 0, a read of N bytes returns zero read, and the MemoryStream Position is now at end*of stream.* Any help will*be greatly appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PublicFunction Compress(ByRef inbytes() AsByte) AsByte() Using mem AsNew MemoryStream, _ g AsNew GZipStream(mem, CompressionMode.Compress), _ fs AsNew FileStream("c:\users\davem\documents\compressedtable.gz", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write), _ g2 AsNew GZipStream(fs, CompressionMode.Compress) Try '======================================================================== ' First compress array of bytes to file g2.Write(inbytes, 0, inbytes.Length) '========================================================================= ' Now compress to an array (retVal) g.Write(inbytes, 0, inbytes.Length) Dim retval() AsByte = mem.ToArray ' The compressed bytes in memory (Retval) and and those written to file are same length Return retval Catch ex As Exception ReturnNothing Finally IfNot g IsNothingThen g.Close() EndIf IfNot mem IsNothingThen mem.Close() EndIf EndTry EndUsing EndFunction ---------------------------------------------------------- PublicFunction DeCompress(ByRef inbytes() AsByte) AsByte() Using mem As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(inbytes), _ mem2 As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(), _ g As GZipStream = New GZipStream(mem, CompressionMode.Decompress, False), _ fs As FileStream = New FileStream("c:\users\davem\documents\compressedtable.gz", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read), _ g2 As GZipStream = New GZipStream(fs, CompressionMode.Decompress, True) Try '============================================================================= ' First decompress the file Dim filebuffer(1024) AsByte fs.Position = 0 Dim fileread AsInteger = g2.Read(filebuffer, 0, filebuffer.Length) While fileread > 0 mem3.Write(filebuffer, 0, fileread) fileread = g2.Read(filebuffer, 0, filebuffer.Length) EndWhile Dim decompfile() AsByte = mem3.ToArray ' decompfile array is the same size as original uncompressed byte array '============================================================================== ' Now try decompressing the array of compressed bytes mem.Position = 0 Dim buffer(1024) AsByte Dim memread AsInteger = g.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length) ' memread is zero, and the mem.Position is now positioned at end of stream ' so this next loop is of course skipped entirely While memread > 0 mem2.Write(buffer, 0, memread) memread = g.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length) EndWhile ' therefore retval is empty Dim retval() AsByte = mem2.ToArray Return retval Catch ex As Exception ReturnNothing Finally IfNot mem IsNothingThen mem.Close() EndIf IfNot mem2 IsNothingThen mem2.Close() EndIf IfNot g IsNothingThen g.Flush() g.Close() EndIf EndTry EndUsing ReturnNothing EndFunction More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is anyone else having trouble with javascript eval() in FF 2.0.0.13? Seems to have broken for us. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Free support doesn't lead to new love for Vista SP1 SearchSecurity.com, MA - 27 minutes ago By Bill Brenner, Senior News Writer Microsoft is working hard to nudge customers onto the Windows Vista bandwagon, offering free support to those migrating ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, When I run a search on c9, if I go to page 2, I am getting a 404 error. Anyone else? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif DailyTech wrote:As part of the ongoing Vista Capable class action lawsuit, Microsoft released data on exactly what drivers caused the bulk of logged Windows Vista crashes. The number one culprit of Vista crashes related to driver failure was NVIDIA at 28.8%. Microsoft only broke logged crashes out for a few companies including NVIDIA, Intel (8.8%) and ATI (9.3%). Microsoft’s data shows that it was responsible for 17.9% of logged crashes. I always knew it... My PC went so often down just because the NVIDIA drivers crashed it. And still when I sold my old PC (like a month ago) the issues were still around; I still had*once in a week a*NVIDIA driver crash. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi All, I hope this is the right place to post this! When you search, going to page 2 on beyond, or selecting 'last' page returns a 404. Cheers, Simon. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have been thinking for a while now that I'm gonna need to upgrade my hard drive to a TB. I have a thing where I have to buy at least double the size I had before to reassure myself I wont fill it any time soon. So I was thinking of getting myself a NAS, buying myself a TB and slapping it into*a NAS. Of course you then hit the problem, what happens when it's full? Well it'd mean plugging it into my PC and getting a new one or... well it's a fair bit of messing so I reached the conclusion a 2 Bay NAS means if I fill 1TB... which will take me till we have 1.5 or 2TB drive* sizes. Then I can get a 2TB, and by the time the 2TB is full we'll probably have 4TB, so I can then*copy the data from*the 1TB to the 4TB and have a 2TB*and 4TB in the bay (making sense so far?) I've been reading up and a few things have worried me so far, the Netgear SC-101 seemed like a winner until I found out it uses a*proprietary file system which means you can't move drives out of it to transfer data which is annoying to say the least.**So far*none of them so far apart from the Thecus N299 (which is apparently awful on transfer times) mention being able to be used on wireless. So I have a few questions you may be able to answer for me, Niners! 1) As it stand I imagine you could plug the RJ45 of the NAS into one of the outputs on a wireless router and map it as a network drive? (I know the speed will be an issue but with Wireless N not far away that should become less of a problem) 2) Do any of you know*if proprietary file systems are wide spread in NAS? 3) Do any of you have a*NAS device*you may want to recommend to me? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, We are workingon a*proposal where the intranet is built on Oracle Forms and Internet on PHP. We have to give*a road map for ASP.NET implementation for both Intranet and Internet. Please provide ASP.NET advantages over Oracle forms and PHP. Many Thanks More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds