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Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory 
markrussinovich via Mark's Blog on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
In my first Pushing the Limits of Windows post, I discussed physical memory limits, including the limits imposed by licensing, implementation, and driver compatibility. This time I’m turning my attention to another fundamental resource, virtual memory. Virtual memory separates a program’s view of memory f
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Guidelines for Consuming a Service Using a WCF Proxy
(unknown author) via Simon Evans' Blog on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
This is a blog I've been meaning to write for over a year now, but have just not had the time. Its as much a "note to self" as a blog for external consumption.
WCF provides the ability to generate a client proxy that communicates with a service, such as a SOAP service conforming to basic profile. Generating a proxy can be done by either u
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Every Winform Application MUST have this !
(unknown author) via Peter Gfader 's .net Blog on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
A Splashscreen with current loading Assemblies!!! Saw this in Citavi - Reference Management and Knowledge Organization A Splash form that's shows the loading of the single dlls.
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Did you know… You can launch VS without the splash screen (/nosplash), and maybe even save some time. - #345
(unknown author) via Sara Ford's WebLog on Wed, 29 Oct. 2008
According to some blog posts, this tip should save you some time using Visual Studio 2005. I’ve asked around and I think it loads Visual Studio 2008 slightly faster because there’s no pause for you to read the splash screen. from cmd line, run devenv.exe /nosplash
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Non-Euclidean Browser UI
Dion Almaer via Ajaxian » Front Page on Wed, 15 Oct. 2008
The video above by Ron Brinkmann is his mockup of a
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Canon 5D MkII footage is back up!
(unknown author) via SmugBlog: Don MacAskill on Tue, 14 Oct. 2008
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I wish I had a better gadget budget. I want one of these ssssooooo bad. I think I'm going to hang around Thomas Hawk like a lost puppy hoping that he lets me use his for a couple minutes.
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Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game
Leo via Zen Habits on Mon, 13 Oct. 2008
For years, books and articles and blogs on productivity have been showing us how to be more productive: crank out the tasks, multi-task, work faster, be organized.
In short, they’ve taught us to be a good part of a corporation that wants more out of us. But that’s old-school productivity, or Productivity 1.0.
Today let’s take a look at Productivity 2.0: a new set of rules ha
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Integrate Launchy with Wget [Download Managers]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Reader Justin writes in with a clever idea for quickly launching downloads with the popular command-line download manager, wget. His method: Make wget available to Launchy, then pass the URL of the file you want to down
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Did you know… You can keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab Channel? - #331
saraford via Sara Ford's WebLog : Visua on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
Just found out about this tip the other day. Works for both 2005 and 2008, although I haven’t tested 2005 myself. Warning: To enable this tip, you’ll need to modify your registry settings. Follow the instructions below at your own risk. Under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softw
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Make Ubiquity More Ubiquitous [Featured Windows Download]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Software engineer and Lifehacker reader William Bartholomew loves previously mentioned Firefox extension Ubiquity, but would prefer it were a bit mor
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Create a Secret Data Stash with a Fake Phonejack [Weekend Project]
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
While not as grandiose as having your own secret bookshelf door, constructing a hidden USB data stash won't take a who
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How to Get Rich
markcuban via blog maverick on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
Thats what so many want. Right ? I’m certainly not going to lie and say it is not a whole lot better having lots of money. I had a whole lot of fun and loved my life when I was eating mustard and ketchup sandwiches and sleeping on the floor of a 3 bedroom apartment that housed me and 5 buddies.
I have a whole lot more fun now. It doesn’t suck to be rich.
The questi
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Top 10 Easy Ways to Look Sharp [Lifehacker Top 10]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
In a perfect world, it wouldn't matter what a genius JavaScript programmer or top-flight professional looked like. In this world, though, coming across as an unkempt schlub won't do anything good for your ca
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Wherever Change Directory Speeds Up Command Line Navigation [Featured Download]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (all platforms): Free command prompt plug-in script Wherever Change Directory makes navigating around your system fast and easy from the command line on any system. After adding wcd to your system path and running it once to index you
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5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind
Alex Iskold via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
From the dynamics of social networks to market bubbles, science has a lot to say about
the world of technology.
One of the great discoveries of modern science was the realization of
how interconnected the world is. The deterministic, Newtonian view of
a clockwork Universe was replaced by the much more
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LINQ Farm: Preserving Formatting with LINQ to XML
(unknown author) via Charlie Calvert's Community Bl on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
In a previous post, you saw how to work with line numbers when using LINQ to XML to read a file. This post continues in the same vein, but this time the focus is on how to: Read in an XML file with an arbitrary format, and t
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Flat Glass Panels to Kill the Lightbulb?
(unknown author) via Wired Science on Sun, 28 Sep. 2008
The glass is the light.
Don't let the gorgeous design distract you –
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ANSWER: POP QUIZ: What’s wrong with this code – part 3
(unknown author) via ASP.NET Debugging on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
This issue is an interesting one in that there are more then one problem here that will cause high memory and even what looks to be a problem that will affect the performance of this snippet as well. So the two main problems are that we are using XSLT.Load inside of a loop which means that we are going to create a new dynamic assembly fo
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Vista UAC trick
(unknown author) via Mumbling to myself on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
Here is something neat that I only learned about over the weekend. Under Vista you can launch programs from the search box on the start menu:
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A Taste of the Canon 5D Mark II's Mindblowing Full HD Video [Canon 5D Mark II]
matt buchanan via Gizmodo on Sun, 21 Sep. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet was one of the first people to get his hands on the most coveted camera on the planet, Canon's
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