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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechNet subscribers revolt over Vista SP1 "debacle" PakTribune.com, Pakistan - 3 minutes ago s decision to hold the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), with some admitting that they`ve downloaded pirated ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am having trouble creating an application icon in VS2005.* Here is what I tried:* I used a freeware tool I found (Icon Sushi)* to build an ico file from a 24x24 BMP.** In VS 2005 I successfully added the ico file to the project resources by using "Add existing file".* The image that appears in the Resources tab looks right so I think the ico file is OK.* I then went to the Application tab and in the Icon pull-down I found my new icon and selected it.* But when I rebuild the app and the cab file, and install it on my iPAQ, it still has the old default application icon, which looks like an empty window.** What did I miss or do wrong?* The freeware tool?* -- don More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. *~Vince Lombardi Mitt Romney was not my first, second, or even third choice for the Republican candidate for*President of the United States of America. However, as*my favorite candidates decided not to run or droppped out, I took a very close look at Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney became my fourth choice because he was a conservative and I saw a leader with the potential for greatness. The speech*Romney wrote himself and presented at CPAC 08 was inspiring and well worth watching and reading whatever your political inclinations. Senator McCain would be wise to select former Governor Romney as his Vice-President for the Republican Party ticket in 2008. In a single stroke Senator McCain would unite the Republican Party. It would also*go a long way to addressing the grassroot movement conservatives reservations about*Senator McCain's*candidacy. A McCain/Romney ticket would win. I would vote for such a ticket despite my serious reservations with many of Senator McCain's positions on*such issues*as immigration, global warming and a new*cap and trade tax. Laura Ingraham Intros Romney at CPAC 08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jHDKseofPE Mitt TV: Campaign Suspended (Video of Mitt Romney's entire speech at CPAC 2008) http://mitt-tv.mittromney.com/?showid=731050 http://www.mittromney.com/ Mitt Romney's CPAC*speech on YouTube: Romney at CPAC 08 pt1a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8JTL7K3h4* Romney at CPAC 08 pt1b http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yDkXjQ3gIs Romney at CPAC 08 pt2* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5hHWlhG58 ROMNEY pulls out , withdraws, suspends 2-07-2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3emWQb3Hqs Mitt Romney / Ronald Reagan - No Retreat, No Surrender http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBDlP8TLhcU** Governor Mitt Romney Addresses CPAC 2008 "...Over the years, my business has taken me to many countries. I have been struck by the enormous differences in the wealth and well-being of people of different nations. I have read a number of scholarly explanations for the disparities. I found the most convincing was that written by David Landes, a professor emeritus from Harvard University. I presume he's a liberal – I guess that's redundant. His work traces the coming and going of great civilizations throughout history. After hundreds of pages of analysis, he concludes with this: "If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. Culture makes all the difference. "What is it about American culture that has led us to become the most powerful nation in the history of the world? We believe in hard work and education. We love opportunity: almost all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants who came here for opportunity – opportunity is in our DNA. Americans love God, and those who don't have faith, typically believe in something greater than themselves – a 'Purpose Driven Life.' And we sacrifice everything we have, even our lives, for our families, our freedoms and our country. The values and beliefs of the free American people are the source of our nation's strength and they always will be. ..."* http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/CPAC_Address Mitt Romney Speech at CPAC 2007* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHJAY1eVjM* Mitt Romney Speech at CPAC: Part 2: Mitt Romney Speech at CPAC: Part 4 Mitt Romney Speech at CPAC: Part 5 Mitt Romney Speech at CPAC: Part 6** Mitt Romney Speech at CPAC: Part 7 Former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) with wife Ann Romney Conservative Political Action Conference Washington, DC March 2, 2007 "...Now, it's the conservative coalition represented in this room that can build a brighter future for America—economic conservatives, social conservatives, and national conservatives. ..." "...Thirty years ago, in challenging times, a great coalition was forged in these halls. Today we face a new generation of challenges. If we, in this room, lock our arms together, we can forge the political will to rebuild our military might. If we, in this room, will simply march forward, we can propel America's growth and prosperity to lead the world. If we, in this room, lift up our eyes, we will lift the spirit of the entire nation. Now is the time. This is the place for us to lead a great coalition of strength for our families, for our future, for America. God bless the United States of America." http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/speech_romney.asp "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." ~Ray Kroc [H] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft preps Vista SP1 and Server 2008 VNUNet.com, UK - Feb 5, 2008 Microsoft has begun shipping the latest versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server to manufacturers. Both are expected to be made available to customers ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Team Announces the RTM of SP1 SYS-CON Brasil (Assinatura), NJ - Feb 5, 2008 ... had issues finding applications that worked well on Windows Vista," wrote Microsoft's Mike Nash yesterday candidly on the official Windows Vista Blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I wonder if any of you have this speedy Spinpoint F1 drive (HD103UJ)? 110 MB/s is pretty nice without RAID. However I haven't even got around to*using it*yet and I'm on my second now. Thing is I read from newegg that some, quite a few apparently, of these get errors in the self diagnostic util provided by Samsung (hutil).*Reports say none of the errors show in other diagnostic tools,*DIY tests*or SMART attributes*.*Incase you do get one and run the tests, here's what to expect: All drives seem*to have ecc error on "check M.C.". Possible incompat with the diagnostic util v2.1 but not absolutely certain yet, if you only have this error then you've "lucked out" as most have more errors than this. "Simple surface scan - ecc error" This I believe is a heads up that when you run the full read surface scan you'll get a whole lot of errors. Even if you don't get that error, run the full scan, there could well be errors. "full read surface scan" This takes 3 hours, if you don't get any errors then you're lucky sob. (see below for native size comparison, the bad sectors might be already taken out of the size?) Possible errors doing the full scan: 1. ecc error, very common *these may show up in SMART as hardware ecc error. They tend to stick around even if you do the full erase.* I had few of these on my first drive and the m.c. one. 2. Sector error, less common,*hangs for a while when attempting to read these sectors. Doing erase should hide these but in my long experience these tend to spread so instead of doing full erase send it for replacement is my advice. 3. Sector ID not found, seen sometimes with sector error. Drive size and "native size" in LBA and MB. The first drive I had was around 1 MB bigger than the 2nd that had those sector errors. You can compare the LBA numbers in hutil options/drive information to see if there were already lot of bad sectors when the drive left the previous tester. These drives were dated 12/2007. Unless reliability is not an issue I'd wait couple months to see if they manage to improve things though I believe what Samsung will do is just try to hide the bad sectors better. Worse possibility is that they already did that but during the trip to the retailer from the factory the issue just got worse. Infact between two full scans there were more ecc errors on a second scan a day later on the first drive. -- And what if you have no errors? You probably do soon. I have put data with checksums on drives before, put the drive away for a year and it doesn't match the checksum anymore. Teaches me for using HDD for archiving ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this third Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery, I look at the WGA changes Microsot implemented in this release! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechNet subscribers revolt over Vista SP1 'debacle' Computerworld, MA - 28 minutes ago s decision to hold the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), with some admitting that they've downloaded pirated ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone have suggestions for where I can go to buy 2 screws to mount my laptop's hard drive? I tried looking at NewEgg and Fry's and I couldn't find them. Actually, I have to replace my hard drive because it's making funny noises but I doubt that a replacement hard drive from NewEgg will include a laptop caddy never mind a pair of tiny screws. I tried calling up Dell and the salesman made a vague claim that "It will include everything you need" when I asked if the hard drive would include*a pair of screws. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I had trouble getting to sleep last night,*and since C-Span can be so very, very sleep inducing I was able to actually watch a good bit of this questioning: I stole the bullet points from another blog, but: No, the Justice Department will not be investigating whether the now-admitted-to waterboarding of US prisoners was against the law. And, no, the DoJ will not be investigating whether the Bush Administration’s warrantless surveillance was illegal. Nor will the AG appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. And, no, the Department of Justice will not enforce any contempt citations that Congress might bring against administration officials that have failed to honor subpoenas for testimony. Simply amazing. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My second Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery focuses on the install experience! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechNet subscribers revolt over Vista SP1 'debacle' Computerworld, MA - 10 minutes ago s decision to hold Windows Vista SP1 RTM, with some admitting that they've downloaded pirated copies to begin testing and others claiming the delay scuttles ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Partners: We Want Vista SP1 Now CRN, NY - Feb 6, 2008 Several posters on the Windows Vista Team blog have been voicing their frustrations and demanding to know why Microsoft chose not to allow them to download ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://gizmodo.com/353847/riaa-wants-your-anti+virus-software-to-screen-your-downloads-for-pirated-content Interesting idea, but it would be better to build this filtering technology into the OS because some people don't run anti-viruses. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

With the new workflow extensions added to .Net 3.5, some of the ISVs I work with have expressed a renewed interest in the Workflow Foundation. This screencast is the first in a series of short clips intended to help developers begin writing activities quickly. Jared Bienz ISV Architect Advisor Microsoft Corporation Sites of Interest:MSDN Events|US ISV Team Blog http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/381349.jpg Watch the screencast(SWF) Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

again via Techcrunch... "Sources have indicated to us that Yahoo has scheduled a special boardof directors meeting on Friday to determine, effectively, the fate ofthe company. After a week of hectic negotiating, it’s clear that no oneis going to step in with a competing acquisition offer to whatMicrosoft put on the table last Friday - $31 per share. Softbank, the last real chance for a competing bid, bowed out today and said they would not be challenging the Microsoft offer." More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

again via Techcrunch (Why doesn't Microsoft acquire Mike Arrington?) "Ustream.tvhttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.13.1/t.gif is said to be in advanced talks with Microsoft to be acquired for $50 million, according to a report from Valleywag.Given it’s very early morning as the post goes live we are unable toput calls in to confirm the deal, but might have more later." More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1, Windows 2008 'Released to Manufacturing' InternetNews.com - Feb 4, 2008 ... according to a posting on the Windows Vista Team Blog Monday by Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows product management. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Today i passed my first 3 Microsoft Office Specialist exams :D Word 2003: Pass 824 Word 2003 Expert: Pass 719 Powerpoint 2003: Pass 788 got 4 more to go James/. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is Episode #2 of*This Week on Channel 9*a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name courtesy of Ian and ChadK, and*Benny Hill style set adjustments including more light!*(0 - 2:45) 1.*Microsoft and Yahoo:*What could it mean for developers*and Brian Shapiro's Coffeehouse thread (2:45 - 7:59) 2.* Windows Server 2008 Launches, Alex Hinrichs, Windows Server Project Manager talks about*Server Core, his favorite feature (7:59 - 9:32) 3. Under-Reported Windows Vista SP1 features for developers via Tim Sneath*including new kernel, and 3.0 SP1 red-bits (9:32 - 12:30) 4. Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview with Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, and Mads Torgerson*including Gilad's soundbyte on whether C++ is dead, and discussion of people loving to hate C++ (12:30 - 14:56) 5. Free Tool for LINQ: LINQPad by Joseph Albahari (14:56 - 15:40) 6. Guitar Matey: Building a 3D XNA Game by Dan Waters (video)found via Coding4Fun (15:40 -16:35) 7. CodeProject: Windows Forms Wizard Control with Visual Studio Designer support by Manish Kumar, found via Jason Haley's blog*(15:40 - 17:51) 8. Brian's Pick of the Week: MySpace adds WCF and Silverlight support for developers, via Michael Scherotter*(17:51 - 19:02) 9.* Dan's Pick of the Week: Screen-scraping function that converts HTML tables from a Web site into a DataSet, by Mark Smith*(19:02 - 20:30) 10. Wrapup, Superbowl predictions from last week, college insults, and a clip on Alex Hinrich's getting banana cake and a nice pen. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Beta testers got Vista SP1 RTM early InfoWorld, CA - 15 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Microsoft confirmed Thursday that its invite-only group of about 15000 testers has had the final version of Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Ready, Waiting Redmondmag.com, CA - Feb 5, 2008 According to the Vista blog, the rollout of SP1 for current Vista users will be timed to coincide with the availability of Vista SP1 on new PCs and in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft’s Rollout of SP1, Not Fast Enough Customers Decry PC World - 9 minutes ago The Windows Vista Blog, where the Vista SP1 availability was originally announced is being hit with hordes of posts by Windows users lashing out at ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

ok so say I have a server and like 100 computers, and I use WDS, is it possible to put on the server WDS to index all files and on every local computer to tell WDS to just use that indexes from the server? can WDS do this? why not?!!! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://valleywag.com/354140/ustreamtv-negotiating-50-million-sale-to-microsoft Sources tell Valleywag that lifecasting startup UStream.tv is in advanced discussions with Microsoft to acquire UStream for more than $50 million, but there are other companies in the bidding as well. UStream is currently raising a very large Series A and Microsoft is attempting to grab them pre-funding for a cheap price. Our tipster also mentions that Microsoft would use UStream as a way to promote it's Adobe Flash competitor, Silverlight. http://ustream.tv/ This is similar to what Yahoo has just debuted with Yahoo Live. http://live.yahoo.com/ http://www.yliveblog.com/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds