Asus GeForce EN8800GTX first for Vista and Dx10

Vista Media Center first impressions

I have been interested in Windows Media centre for some time but have been dissapointed by it being nearly there, not quite as intuative as it should be and restrictions on releases to the UK.

Hopefully Vista Media Centre will address some of these and this link is a good first impression

VS2005 tools for Office 2007 and SPS 3.0

Tools from Microsoft for Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office 2007 SE and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Using the CLR message object to assist with parsing XML Dom

Running Microsoft Money 2005 UK under Windows Vista

Microsoft Money UK doesnt work out of the box with Windows Vista - here is a useful article basically saying that Money doesnt work with Vista's User Account Control

Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Technical Guidance

Vista is changing the way it work for volume licensing using a new KMS license service.

Scott Forsyth's Mastering IIS FTP

An essentual and invaluable resource for the minefield of using FTP with IIS

Serv-U Windows FTP Server

After fighting with IIS6 and FTP publishing I found a link to this alternative which certainly is a lot less complex that IIS FTP publishing

Serv-U now has support for Windows User NT-SAM/Active Directory that makes administering large servers easier and more efficient. Take a look at the Serv-U highlights below and the rest of the features found in Serv-U.

Debug XML Web services in VS.NET - Program - Windows - Builder AU

Re: UK Datetime parameter problem SQL 2005 RS - MSDN Forums
Whilst this seems to answer the question - the suggestion for the language change doesnt work.
The issue seems to be a bug resolved in SQL2005 SP1

Interesting and recommended fast track learning for Exchange 2003

LAB 18 - How To Design, Install & Manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 in a Windows Server 2003 Environment!

Reading and Writing XML Documents: "stream, TextReader or XmlReader. LoadXml method loads XML document from a specified string. Another useful method of this class is Save. Using Save method you can write XML data to a string, stream, TextWriter or XmlWriter."

Using Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter Tutorial

dotNet Archive Manager for IMFManage spam with the IMF archive manager

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 Technical Preview Download

Buying differnt TV's means reprogamming the Sky controller, here is a link to a usefull reference

Sky Digibox remote control codes for your television
BTW, can anyone confirm what the following setup keys do?

Press and hold SELECT+YELLOW (2 flashes) then:
0 SELECT (2 flashes) - Sets the remote to a standard Sky RMC?
1 SELECT (2 flashes) - Sets the remote back to Sky+?

Press and hold SELECT+BLUE (2 flashes) then:
0, 1, 2 or 3 and SELECT - I've no idea what any of these settings are for!

1. Press TV
2. Press Select + 0 - wait for double flash
3. Entered code 0186 (This is a Sony code i got from the site mentioned earlier in this thread)
4. Got a double flash to confirm code.
5. Hit Sky to get it back to normal sky control
6. Press TV
7 Using the page up / down keys controls my amp - so i think it's now in "amp mode control".
8 Press Select +1 ... nothing happens.


Sky+ remote to work with their AV amp.
Make Code
Inkel 0055
Kenwood 0055
Aiwa 0186
Sony 0186
Arcam 0297
Audiolab 0297
Bat 0297
Bush 0297
Goldmund 0297
Grundig 0297
Linn 0297
Marantz 0297
Mark 0297
Meridian 0297
Micromega 0297
Myryad 0297
Naim 0297
Philips 0297
Pioneer 0297
Quad 0297
Revox 0297
Thorens 0297
Universum 0297
Panasonic 0336
Kenwood 0341
Kenwood 0342
Mafui 0342
Pace 0828
Amstrad 0830
Goodmans 1081
Schneider 1081

Miscellaneous addons for ISA Server


ISA Server Configurations Reporting Tool 2002 [Listing updated: October 7, 2002]
ISACRT (ISA Server Configurations Reporting Tool) is a configurations report utility for Microsoft ISA Server that enables you to document maximum information of your ISA Servers in your organization. ISACRT generates configurations report in HTML format, PDF format, RTF format and Word Document format for all ISA Server objects. Besides, ISACRT also provides feature to export ISA Server's configurations to XML for backup purpose or clone a new ISA Server. As a bonus, ISACRT generates ISA Server's XML Schema and XSLT files. The XSLT files help developer to understand how to transform the ISA Server's XML schema and export file into a well-formatted HTML report. Full documentation about ISA Server's XML Schema and XSLT files are also provided.

:: Company :: ISACRT.COM
:: URL :: www.isacrt.com
:: Email :: support@isacrt.com
:: Screenshot :: click here
:: Price :: varies
:: Users' Rating :: 4.68 [63 votes] - Vote
:: Comments :: 0 comments - Post




IM Sentry [Listing updated: August 12, 2002]
IM Sentry is an application built using Microsoft's ISA designed to monitor and manage instant messaging traffic. IM Sentry captures and stores inbound and outbound messages across Yahoo, AOL, ICQ and MS Messenger. IM Sentry includes tools specifically designed to assist bank and corporate compliance officers by allowing keyword alerts, invalid buddy login names and unauthorized usage. IM Sentry archives all orginal session content with indexing for future reporting.

:: Company :: e-Vantage Solutions
:: URL :: www.evgl.com
:: Email :: info@evgl.com
:: Price :: Varies with size of enterprise
:: Users' Rating :: 4 [13 votes] - Vote
:: Comments :: 0 comments - Post




ISAExportImport [Listing updated: November 18, 2003]
Essentially, ISAExportImport is a tool that can automatically export/import configuration of every object in an ISA Server. One of the biggest advantages of ISAExportImport is to export all ISA Server configurations to XML file with an XML schema. The XML schema describes all elements in the XML file and also represents the object schema of ISA Server. Furthermore, another exciting feature is that ISAExportImport provides XSL to guide developers to transform the XML file into HTML report.

:: Company :: EmiTools.com
:: URL :: www.emitools.com
:: Email :: support@emitools.com
:: Screenshot :: click here
:: Price :: $36
:: Users' Rating :: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
:: Comments :: 0 comments - Post

OLAP Indispensable Calculated Members
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Blogging and Collaboration tools.

A new blogging server called DasBlog is based on .NET : http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/
Written by the same person is FlexWiki : http://www.flexwiki.com/
And a cool tool for uploading Blogs can be found at Blog Jet http://blogjet.com/

Avalon: "Avalon
'Avalon' is the code name for the presentation subsystem in 'Longhorn.' Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences in Longhorn, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer. The functionality extends to the support for Tablet and other forms of input, a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.


PDC Talks: Avalon"