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December 2005 - Posts

Free Art and Stock Photos

http://www.sxc.hu/

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Roomba Sucks - IRobot provides horrible customer service
Just received my Roomba.  However, you people decided to take a Roomba that was clearly returned by another customer, stick it back in a box (poorly), barely wrap the thing right, the cords where a mess, all "sealed" stickers broken, and the item scratched and dirty.
 
So, I really don't feel like taking somebody elses toss-away as "NEW" - which is what I paid for. 
 
Update:  This was purchased direct from iRobot - a Christmas present.  Does no good now...
MSDN Local Help Sucks (Document Explorer)

I have to say, after using the new local MSDN Document Explorer engine, it SUCKS!  It routinely loses settings related to both language filter and search profile.

Why the heck couldn't MSFT have vetted this out during testing?  Throughout the whole beta process I saw this as a problem on EVERY machine I installed the new MSDN help engine on.  So, never thought I was alone on this.  Both Physical and Virtual installs - same problem - both language filter and search profile get's routinely lost forcing me to reset.

In addition, the whole layout of the class documentation is horrible.

For the search what the hell where they thinking?  Why can't I save some of the search selections for the Technology or content types.  With about 30 check boxes, it would be nice to save it as a profile for what I'm doing at that moment.

 

Nice Formatting Utility for Disks

http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

Download SwissKnife V3.22  

If you are looking for an external hard disk drive solution that can be used interchangeably between Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, there is only one way to prepare the hard disk and SwissKnife does it for you. You can create, delete and format partitions on your hard disk drives in one smooth, simple process. While the product has been tested up to 400GB, it should support hard disks of up to 2048GB. SwissKnife allows creation of FAT32 & NTFS partitions. FAT16 option is provided for compatibility. Supports Internal interfaces such as IDE and SCSI and External interfaces such as Hi-Speed USB, Parallel port, PCMCIA, USB On-The-Go, Firewire®, SATA interfaces etc. Creates Fixed and Removable Disk Format types.

Version 3.09 adds support for NTFS and features resizable windows. Upon completion, the drive icons will be dynamically updated on your computer!

Key Features:

 

Formats faster than the OS (click on chart for details)

 

Allows change of cluster size during Full format or Quick Format

 

Divides a single hard drive into one or more partitions

 

Supports Hi-Speed USB, PCMCIA, SATA, SCSI, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives

 

Supports Fixed and Removable disk formats

 

Supports FAT, FAT32 & NTFS systems

 

Allows creation of a single partition of up to 2048GB of FAT32 or NTFS file systems.

 

Full format or Quick Format of existing partitions

 

Selective partitions can be modified for optimum flexibility

Supported Operating Systems:

 

Windows XP (Home, MCE, Professional and Server edition, all service packs)

 

Windows 2000 (Professional and Server edition, all service packs)

 

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server

 

Windows Me

 

Windows 98 (First and Second Editions)

 

Windows 95b (OSR2 Edition)

Windows 95B/ 98/ 98SE/ 2000/ Me/ XP

Nice Freeware Installer.

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ASP.NET Master Page Design Templates - Free from Microsoft.

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Design Templates

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Posted: 12-12-2005 10:19 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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