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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 6:35 PM

AD: Two slightly used TiVos for sale

Before Windows Media Center Edition was released, I purchased two TiVo DVRs. My family has really enjoyed these units - In fact my 3 year old daughter has become so used to being able to watch a favorite episode of Rugrats on demand that when we explained
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Monday, May 09, 2005 8:36 PM

The Windows Server System Song

Jeff Swift was asking me about royalty-free music earlier today and the first thing that popped to mind was Richard Stallman's magnificent " Free Software Song " - Jeff thanked me for my suggestion, but pointed out that it wasn't very appropriate fare
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Friday, May 06, 2005 1:01 PM

Paintball Outing

This last weekend a couple of guys from the EEC and the Windows Server TAP team went down to a place called Hole-in-the-wall Paintball to shoot each other with small projectiles from pneumatic weapons :-) Before From left to right, we have Matt Wagner
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:09 PM

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

What Kind of American English Do You Speak? - Having been born and raised here in the Redmond area with a couple of years spent in rural parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland and elsewhere, here's how I tested out on the latest " timewaster of the week ":
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:15 PM

Terminal Dodgeball

Last week the Terminal Services Team squared off against the EEC crew in a very one-sided dodgeball game at the ProClub in Redmond... I wasn't able to make it, but as I hear things, the score was something like EEC=3, TS=0! Stanley Jones took some video
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Monday, April 04, 2005 2:03 PM

Microsoft's version of the Darwin Award...

Well, it's official: Richard Gregg has been sentenced to 2 years in one of Washington State's fine correctional facilities for the crime of tragic stupidity. This is really a shame - Richard is a very likable fellow who had run the software library for
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:03 PM

Windows Messenger in Corporate Environments

   I had a surprise the other day - I run MSN Messenger 6.2 on my laptop here at work for occasional IM sessions with friends and family, and after I signed in yesterday morning with my user@microsoft.com Passport, it prompted me to change my Passport email addy to user@messengeruser.com!  It told me to wait an hour to sign back in while they "upgraded" my account, and then later in the day when I did sign back in with MSN Messenger 6.2, it prompted me to download and install a special version of Windows Messenger 5.1 for my new corporate account...  It was automagically configured to use both internal LCS SIP accounts and external .NET Passport accounts and seems to work fine.  In fact, nothing appears to have changed here on the front-end so I'm kind of curious about what may have changed on the backend...  I'm guessing that anyone with a user@microsoft.com Passport will have gotten the same prompts - Anyone know what's going on here?

-Bryce

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Friday, March 11, 2005 6:50 PM

Inappropriate relations with a Sun server...

Wow! If a Microsoftie has a few complimentary words to say about Sun's latest Windows-compatible hardware, should he be fired for revealing his latent "hardware fetishist" tendencies? According to TheRegister , the answer is a logic-defying "yes". Fortunately,
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Monday, February 28, 2005 11:30 AM

Making life as a LUser more livable

Well, after reading Aaron Margosis' blog , I decided to give running as a limited user at home another try... I'm used to running *Nixoid workstations in this manner of course and I've tried running this way on my Windows boxes on a couple of occasions
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Friday, January 14, 2005 1:10 PM

Kingdomality companion worksheet

On the topic of Kindomality, for those that have a copy of the book , they may have noticed there's a different version of the personality test in the appendices than the better known online version . Here's a companion worksheet I put together that let's
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Friday, January 14, 2005 1:47 AM

Kingdomality - Helpful insights into team dynamics

I know the www.kingdomality.com quiz has made the internet rounds a few times, but I was recently handed a copy of the book by my boss and I really did find "Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management" to be quite an engaging read that
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Friday, January 07, 2005 5:58 PM

So far so good - Lovin' the new Windows AntiSpyware beta

A friend put me on to this the other day: Microsoft has released a free beta download of our new Windows AntiSpyware application . I ran it on a couple of machines at work and at home and it detected nothing, but on my daughter's PC, it found several
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Friday, December 24, 2004 2:33 PM

Analog AV Capture - Conclusion

Well, I'm pleased to report that after sinking an excessive amount of time into this project and stumbling through all of the gotchas detailed in the previous two installments, I finally hit upon a set of products and a work flow that resulted in really
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Sunday, December 19, 2004 1:54 AM

Analog AV Capture Sequel...

While I am pleased to report that Movie Maker and Windows XP Media Center 2005 have been responding within specified parameters, I am displeased to find that the most of host of 3rd party media capture products I've tried since have not lived up to expectations...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:25 PM

My recent trials and travails with Windows Media-based Home Video scenarios

While catching up on some time off this month, I decided to sit down the other day and digitize several hours of old and recent home video, but despite having what I thought were likely to be all the right tools for the job, this turned out to be much
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