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Steven Bink of Bink.nu reported yesterday that Microsoft.com is now running in ASP.net 2 (Whidbey). This signifies the imminent release of Whidbey & Yukon. This has again sparked off a yearning to brush up on my ASP.net skills, so I've set out the primary agenda for month of October to acquaint with the cool new things of ASP.net 2, like master pages & personalization etc. It's a fairly daunting task given I still haven't mastered the basics of ASP.net 1.x. And that I spend my...
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This sucks, I've been extremely busy these past 2 days that I haven't even had the chance to visit Neowin.net , my primary source for industry news. This was mostly attributed to screw ups by one of my subordinates who made some major mistakes in his code which I had to edit as I was auditing it. Then it was an all day cycle of appraisals that I had to perform. I missed out on the news about the free giveaway offer of the DivX create suite. Not that I had an imminent need for a DivX encoder...
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I remember a fairly simple card trick performed by David Copperfield where he used to flip through an entire stack of cards with the front face facing towards the camera. The point of the trick was that he could accurately predict which one you picked. What this meant in a more grandeur fashion is that he made millions of watchers pick a card which he wanted them to choose, in magic speak – “Mind Control”. The trick was so darn simple yet so accurate that if you saw without reading any further your...
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I remember when my school & college friends used to call me " American " due to my sometimes biased opinions about the United States. Ironically I have a truly American disease ... I've had Migraine since late 1996. And mine is predominantly triggered by food as I'm otherwise extremely careful of the other 2 probable triggers viz , bright/flickering lights & sleep deprivation. But food is something that's marvelously deceptive; you can’t tell which food item can...
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My yesterday's posting prompted my dear friend Raj Shekhar to lend his precious comments. It was then he noticed that I didn't had Anonymous posts allowed on my blog. And when he told me about it on MSN I thought that it was probably that the default setting was blocking anonymous postings. Funny thing I spent more than an hour and couldn't find a solution. So I turned to the forums at Community Server, unfortunately I couldn't find anything that helped. Finally I was able to find...
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The week so far has been quite a ride actually. Got a new Dev. server on Friday which refused to start either in the Ubuntu 'Live CD' or the Fedora Core 4 installation CD, both of which seem to hang when a keyboard input was required. (Keyboard layout selection in case of Ubuntu & CD check prompt in FC4). This initially led me to believe that probably it was because of the USB mouse but despite my replacing it with a classic PS2 mouse it refused to budge. Kinda reminded me of my days...
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IBM's "Help Desk" has a slew of advertisements that appear on my TV. These commercials cover a wide variety of technologies like RFID, virtual classrooms, webportals presented in a tacky manner as if IBM invented these things, or is the pioneer in these technologies. Almost all the ads are so artificial that anyone who has even the basic understanding of these technologies is left with a feeling of distaste about IBM. Though I've nothing against IBM in general, I do think that the...
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Its probably old news to some. Paul Thurrot made an exclusive report on the latest timelines of Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, WinFS & SQL Server 2005 on the 29th of August. The timelines were a surprise for people mostly because its a very aggresive timeline, Microsoft is now planning to release Vista Beta 2 on Dec.7th far ahead of the last known timeline of March 2006. But the biggest surprise came from Microsoft when it became known that Microsoft had released Beta 1 of WinFS on Aug. 28th...