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Microsoft Expression Interactive and Graphic Design Free Betas

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Microsoft has recently released updated CTPs of their Expression Interactive Design and Graphics Design applications (personally I can't wait to see the Web Design application when it's released or atleast made available via beta). You can get details on what the Expression product line are at: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx The Expression Dev Team has a blog online […]

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 & iSCSI

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Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI

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Clustrmaps.com — This seems pretty cool.

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If it worked there should be a little map up above that displays the geographic locations my visitors come from (so I guess it will just have a big red dot over where my office is since I'm probably the only person that comes here).

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Virtual Server SCSI or IDE drives and why is SCSI so damn slow?

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So in the Virtual Server how to on setting up a 2 node cluster there was mention that you should select the SCSI drive emulatored because the IDE emulator was slower than the SCSI one and that this was true even if you were running on IDE disks. Strange, right? Virtual PC Guy recently wrote

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LightBox Module

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There's 20 or so new community server modules that were released recently you can find details about them here: http://developer.communityserver.org/default.aspx/CS.FirstCSModuleContent One of hte modules uses a little piece of javascript called LightBox that just outright rocks. I'm in the process (when I can find the time) of writing a photo gallery based on it in

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Asterisk@Home and Sangoma T1 cards work together

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I'm a big fan of asterisk and have a couple projects coming along nicely for it. But we use a sangoma T1 card and asterisk@home doesn't realy support it out of the box. Now asterisk@home isn't the only way to setup and install asterisk but for a Windows Dweeb like me, it's probably the easiest

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Creating a Virtual Server 2005 Cluster

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Server Virtualization is becoming a major item these days and is many companies are adopting it. I've heard storys all over the place from development to production, from guys using it to setup test labs of multiple servers using only a handful of boxes to companies replacing 700 physical servers with less than 350. For the

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ASP.net 2.0 Commerce Starter Kit

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Microsoft is clearly making an attempt at promoting opensource applications that use their tools and run on their platform, CommunityServer, DotNetNuke, and the starter kits are clear examples of this. I stumbled on the ASP.net 2.0 commerce starter kit last night and have to say it’s pretty darn nice. It’s the work of http://www.wekeroad.com and

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SQL2005 Express Edition, Free Free Free

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SQL2005 Express Edition is Microsoft's follow up to MSDE2000. MSDE picked up tons of following and has been in use all over the place. Unfortunately for a web application it really didn't cut it and would be quickly outgrown. SQL2005 EE will replace MSDE and doesn't have the same 20 concurrent connections limitation that MSDE

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Free VS.net 2005 Books

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Actually they’re Visual Basic 2005 -ebooks, but free is good Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/IntroTo2005/default.aspx Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/UpgradingVB6/default.aspx Hopefully we’ll see some C# books getting released fairly soon, I’m a big fan of C#.

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