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March 2005 - Posts

Earthquake in Indonesia

posted Monday, March 28, 2005 11:01 AM by rrinaldi
CNN has a developing story on an earthquake in Indonesia that is on the same fault line as the quake that started the tsunami. :( Read More
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First Mother Teresa, now this...

posted Friday, March 25, 2005 12:26 PM by rrinaldi
I Am: What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com Read More
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An addition to my digital family

posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:45 PM by rrinaldi
About a month ago I added a new laptop to my digital family.  My old Inspiron 8100 is quite close to dead and I've been looking at replacing it for awhile.  It's still limping and whimpering, but not good for anything short of being Read More
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What is your "Team System"

posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:33 PM by rrinaldi
I noticed a lot of posts the other day where people rattled off what they are currently using to mimic all of the functionality that you will be getting with Team System.  At my office, we don't have a very extensive list and I think it is pretty Read More
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Eric gets it right.

posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:40 PM by rrinaldi
Eric Sink is one smart mother.  With all of the complaining, bitching, and moaning about not getting Team System for free, Eric is the first person I saw that pointed out that you really don't get anything for "free" with MSDN.  All that software Read More
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Open source C# Project directory

posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:17 PM by rrinaldi
http://csharp-source.net/ This link went around a couple weeks back.  Since I couldn't remember it, I figured I would post it as a reminder to myself. Read More
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Yesterday's Nerd Dinner

posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:22 PM by rrinaldi
Didn't have as good of a turn out as expected yesterday.  Kind of a let down.  Not sure if it's spring fever that kept people away or end of quarter project pushes.  Here's hoping that the next one has a better turn out. Read More
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Well, Mother Teresa I ain't..

posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:17 PM by rrinaldi
Or am I?  Haven't figure out if this is a good thing or not.... What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com Read More
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Pretty XmlHttpRequest/DHTML Goodness from MS

posted Friday, March 11, 2005 3:09 PM by rrinaldi
http://start.com/1/ Don't know how public that link is supposed to be.  Let's pass it around and find out! :) Pretty sweet little web based RSS reader/search engine.  I'm guessing that it's storing the customizations in cookies. [Via Barry Read More
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Updater Application Block version 2.0

posted Friday, March 11, 2005 3:05 PM by rrinaldi
Just in time to piss off my co-worker Richard (he just wrote his own updater since UAB 1.0 didn't fit the bill), MS's PAG group just released UAB 2.0! *Requires the rest of Enterprise Library [Via Mike Gunerloy and The Daily Grind] Read More
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Ballmer sells Windows 1.0

posted Friday, March 11, 2005 3:00 PM by rrinaldi
I have no idea if this is real or not, but it is DAMN funny! Ballmer sells Windows 1.0 Read More
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Upgrading the Dojo.

posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:22 PM by rrinaldi
Just so the fellow bloggers here know, I am currently looking into what it would take to upgrade thee dojo to Community Server.  So far it seems the upgrade path is a little rocky for community sites, so until some kinks get worked out I'm a Read More
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Office 12 preview

posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:31 PM by rrinaldi
From WinSuperSite: Office 12 preview [UPDATE: Looks like the article and pictures were taken down.  You can still see the article through the google cache though.] Read More
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The future of Windows?

posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:28 PM by rrinaldi
I don't normally quote something verbatim, but I thought this was interesting: I have this long-standing theory and thought I’d share it. The theory goes like this:   First there was DOS. Then there was Windows which ran on DOS. Then DOS Read More
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MVP VB6 revolt?

posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:26 PM by rrinaldi
Okay so Scoble calls it a revolt, but I would consider it more of a disagreement.  So does Dan Appleman. My take?  Goodbye doesn't always mean goodbye.  Should VB6 continue to be fully supported?  Nope.  Should all VB6 developers Read More
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Yes, my friends, you can charge for Free Software

posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:17 PM by rrinaldi
I was reading Slashdot today and on of the posts was "Making Money Using Open Source Software?" where GamblerZG asks how you can make money creating Free software.  Yes, it is possible.  Because the FOSS people use "free" differently than you Read More
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.NET Campsight? PDC?

posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:02 PM by rrinaldi
Got a question to throw out there: If you could only go to one conference, and you could choose between the .NET Campsight (Training from the big hitters in the industry) or PDC (ohh, shiny!), which one would you go to?  I already Read More
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c:\ipDoSomethingNutty.exe

posted Friday, March 04, 2005 1:26 PM by rrinaldi
This is how I feel whenever I have to do something non-trivial with networking. This quote made me laugh out loud: There may be some c:\>ipDoSomethingNutty -/WithSomeWeirdAssSwitch statement I could run probably. Read More
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