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  1. Its about time... on Windows XP To Block Use Of "Troublesome" Drivers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this is a good thing.
    They are making device developers fall into line.

    I sure Microsoft is as tired of the the blue screen jokes as the rest of us are.

  2. Re:My Experience with XP Activation on Deciphering Windows Product Activation · · Score: 1

    FYI. MS has a cripled MP3 implementation because they are contrained by the license agreement with Fraunhofer.

  3. Much Ado About Nothing on MSDN Subscriber Forced to use Passport · · Score: 1

    They already has your personal information if you are a MSDN subscriber. It make sense to any organization to consolidate their authentication infrastructure into one single system - rather than keeping separate systems for different services.

  4. Where can I get fiber in Seattle ? on Fiber Optics Come To Rural Washington · · Score: 1

    I live in Redmond (near Microsoft) with no DSL/Cable and I am planning to move to Seattle.

  5. Severity levels on Standards for Bug Severities? · · Score: 2

    I used to work for a ISO-9000 compliant organization. They had strict quality control department. They has 3 levels of bug severity

    Low - Small bugs. For example - incorrect labels for textboxes.

    Medium - Allows you to complete your input operations but output results are incorrect.
    Basically operations where data is not destroyed and recovery is possible by a simple fix to the program.

    High - Program Crashes or security bugs.

  6. Nobody uses MS tools to create MP3s on Windows XP to Target MP3 Files · · Score: 1

    I don't this really a big issue.
    Right now not many people use Microsoft encoding tools to rip MP3s. Most people use other 3rd party programs.

    MP3 encoding was never a big thing with Microsoft.

  7. Who will suppy the Host header ? on The Opportunity of SOAP · · Score: 1

    You need to supply the Host: reader buddy.

    Try something like this.
    GET / HTTP/1.0
    Host: www.microsoft.com

    or

    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.microsoft.com

    The error you got was due multiple sites
    configured to the same domain name
    - pretty normal stuff, most sites do it.

  8. You forgot www.cagle.com on Web-Based Comics · · Score: 1

    You forgot Cagle.
    One of the best and most addictive cartoon site
    I have ever seen.

  9. PDF/TIFF to PS in windows on TIFF/PDF To Postscript Converter for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Under Windows this is easy.
    Install a postscript printer driver
    and print to a file.

  10. Corel is doing the .NET port for UNIX systems on Sun's (un)official response to .NET · · Score: 3

    No surprises for an article written by a sun employee. MS has announced Corel will implement the .NET port for Linux.

    As regards java being platform independent,
    java ports on platforms other than Windows/Solrais
    leave a lot to be desired.

  11. Re:I agree with some things... on QuickTime For RealNetworks · · Score: 1

    The MS Player can decode QT3 files
    but QT4 decoding is lacking.

  12. This is a Joke on QuickTime For RealNetworks · · Score: 1

    The quicktime software is free.
    Who in their good sense of mind would
    pay for the Real software in order to
    stream quicktime content.

  13. No Visual C++ to Borland C++ convertor included on Borland C++ Now Free-as-in-Beer · · Score: 1

    I was looking forward to the availability of the free compiler however I was disappointed to see there is no 'Visual C++ project and workspace to equivalent Borland C++' convertor. Such a convertor does exist and is supplied with C++ builder. Even the help file which comes with free compiler download documents this. If Borland really wants to increase its market share, they need to get people to shift from the popular VC++ to their compiler.