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So, I had been waiting patiently for years to revisit MacOS X, having been left with a seriously bad impression due to (the now defunct) NetInfo. This past week I was ready to give it another go, and purchased one in the latest series of Mac Minis, intending to use my existing DVI wide-screen as a display. The Mac Mini comes with a Mini-DVI to DVI converter, so I figured this wouldn't be a

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These are pretty decent UML 2.0 objects for Visio 2007.http://www.softwarestencils.com/uml/index.html

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After a brief search on Google, I found that Microsoft released an unsupported tool that can mount an ISO image as if it were a read-only drive.Here's a link an article on the topic.Here's another to the utilitiy.... too bad there's no source code. I'd like to see a native port of vnconfig.

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I've been meaning to do a rant on the IPC solution that RPC/HTTP provides, and how it is not adequate for certain applications. After reading Don Box's interview with .NET Developer's Journal, it seems we are finally starting to see a mainstream effort to remove our dependence on HTTP for web services. Who says "the web" is limited to port 80?Don Box pin-points the idea that there is a need to

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...on his role at Microsoft. Here's an excerpt:.NETDJ: I'm perfectly happy using ASMX for Web services - why should I care about Indigo?DB: ASMX is the closest to "the truth" of all our shipping technologies for distributed computing. If you are doing service-oriented programming, ASMX is the easiest to use and the most likely to keep you on the straight and narrow. You have to work harder to do

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For some reason, the first time I installed .NET 1.x on an IIS 5 server, it just worked. I don't know if this was because I had done the install via Windows Update, or if the likes of a phenomenon occurred. .NET applications ran fine.This time around, I installed IIS and downloaded and installed the framework manually. ASP.NET applications failed to work at first go. After tooling through the IIS

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It occurred to me recently that I needed something to compile .NET code snippets... "what was that tool called?" I knew an article had been written on some very cool and useful tools for .NET development, but for some reason I never bothered to post it. I'm cutting myself slack... I'm still learning to blog.Without further ado, Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now.http://

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This is very crude, but:1. download kernel source.ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/5.1-RELEASE/src/ssys*,install.sh2. install kernel source../install.sh ssys3. modify kernel, add these options.# Packet Filter supportoptions PFIL_HOOKSoptions RANDOM_IP_ID4. rebuild kernelconfig IMPETUS && cd ../compile/IMPETUSmake depend && make && make install5. reboot6. download the ports collection7.

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SMP support is now in OpenBSD-current! -- link2This has been a long time coming... congrats to the OpenBSD team.

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For some reason in insert-mode under FreeBSD, VIM doesn't process the arrow keys (up, down, right, left) such that the cursor moves in the expected direction. Instead I was getting [ABCD] every time I hit (up|down|left|right), respectively.Under OpenBSD, this works fine with the "pcansi" terminal setting (under FreeBSD I am using the "screen" terminal setting, but have tried others to no avail)

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Cedric Berger has committed changes to the OpenBSD routing subsystem that allows packets to be routed based on their source address. Cool stuff.Here's the commit message:CVSROOT: /cvsModule name: srcChanges by: cedric@cvs.openbsd.org 2004/06/06 10:49:09Modified files: sys/conf : files sys/net : pf.c route.c route.h rtsock.c sys/netinet : in.h in_pcb.c ip_icmp.c ip_input.c

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For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why my lossless audio files were skipping when I would play them from my desktop over the network. They played fine from my laptop.While tooling around in the Properties for my Local Area Connection, I found an Advanced setting called Connection Type that allowed me to set duplex. Even though the switch showed the connection from the desktop as Full

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BTW, here is a list of providers that provide discount dedicated hosting.http://www.fastservers.net/http://www.managed.com/http://www.servermatrix.com/http://www.nocster.com/http://www.ev1servers.net/http://www.focalservers.com/http://www.hosthideout.com/

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We are now located at The Planet and thusly peered with 8 upper-tier ISPs. Our link to the Internet is now much sweeter.The change is mainly to free up bandwidth on my cable modem, and to decrease latency for data transfers (e.g. pictures should display a lot faster now).A bit of credit for the idea must be given to Dave, who mentioned it during a chat on New Years.

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I read this Molson Twin Label as "Now Serving root!", and thought it was amusing. Of course, none of my friends on that night quite got it.If only Molson would go multiplatform with a "Now Serving C:\>!", I might start collecting these bottles.

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Something I've pondered since switching to Firebird as my desktop browser is, "Wouldn't it be great to use the same engine as Firebird, as an alternative to the MSHTML engine, to render HTML in my applications?"It appears Adam Lock had the same idea, and did something about it. The Mozilla ActiveX Control aims to be a (nearly) drop in replacement for the MSHTML interface.

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I received this tip from a coworker of mine, John Sutherland. Ever need to search and replace a string over a directory tree?find . -name '*.html' -exec perl -pi -e 's/old text/new text/g' {} \;

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Microsoft has apparently publicized a research effort to combine XML and relational queries into an extension to C#, called Xen. Read the article on Extreme Tech.Xen looks promising: It simplifies many common business logic operations that generally create code readability (and security) headaches.From the article: Including XML constructs in the language will make programming Web services

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Up to now, I've sent email through my LAN's MTA, which uses the IP of my cable modem. Lately, it seems, there is a growing number of exchanges (such as AOL.COM) that no longer accept mail from these "dynamic" addresses. So, I needed a way to relay mail from my LAN's MTA to an alternate MTA that uses a static IP address.To do this, I first had to add the IP address of my MTA to the remote MTA (

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I've written an Outlook-style month control in C# for public consumption. It's in its infancy. Please let me know if you make any improvements.Here's a screenshot:Click here to download

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I've written a simple, flat file, syslog style, thread safe logging class in C# for public consumption. Please let me know if you make any improvements.Click here to download

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