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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Recruiting at BYU
Hi all – I’m at BYU for the career fair tomorrow (Wednesday). Come on down and talk to us and bring a resume – I met a lot of you at the dinner tonight (thanks for coming) which was great fun. … Continue reading
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RE: How to get rid of that pesky Windows Welcome Center at FIRST boot
While reading blog comments about Welcome Center, I came across this entry on how to remove welcome center at first boot. … With a simple .reg file though, you can kill Windows Welcome Center dead on first boot — simply put the following … Continue reading
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Jeep Waterfall
Just discovered this jeep waterfall that’s been going around the internet. It’s a cool idea – and making the video was a great way to generate buzz (I would never have seen it otherwise).
Posted in News and politics
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Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista
I was just looking at the Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista video. Wow. It’s gorgeous. It’s nice to see people doing amazing things with Avalon/WPF. I was particularly impressed with the great flow and visual as you select the background color … Continue reading
Posted in Vista
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Bernie Klinder ♡ Guided Help
From Bernie’s review of Windows Vista’s killer features… Guided Help and Automated Diagnostics — A large number of help desk calls are for simple technical issues that aren’t difficult to resolve but are somewhat time consuming to explain to a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Smile spotting – can you tell the difference?
I was taking a smile spotting survey that I found from Kathy Sierra’s blog (good reading) and I know a little bit about how to tell a fake smile from a real one (in theory) and I thought it would … Continue reading
Posted in Rambling
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Using WMIC to check for predicted disk failure (S.M.A.R.T. analysis)
I was looking at the Windows Vista Reliability and Performance Monitor and noticed that the data collector sets for System Diagnostics included a SMART disk check. I’ve been waiting for Windows to make better use of SMART and hadn’t noticed … Continue reading
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Microsoft CES website – Group Shot pictures
Here’s Microsoft’s CES website. There’s a ton of interesting stuff on here. The one that will probably impact me the most is Group Shot. Not that the rest isn’t incredibly cool, it’s just that I have the groupshot problem a lot. … Continue reading
Posted in Hobbies
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WMI Folder – codeplex project
Well, I’ve put the WMI folder code up on codeplex. Please remember that this code is very much pre-alpha. I think that this will be a good way to share the code, allow others to contribute, etc. If it works … Continue reading
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