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A blog reaction (Feb 01 2005 01:02 GMT) - Why did the Win64 team choose the LLP64 model? Raymond Chin read a thread on channel9 and one line caused him to blog; I got a good chuckle out of that and made a note to write up an entry on the Win64 data model. The Win64 team selected the LLP64 data model, in which all integral types remain 32-bit values and only pointers expand to 64-bit values. |
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SQL Server not found (Feb 01 2005 01:02 GMT) - When I use the DNS of a server in a connection string I get a "SQL Server not found" error, but when I use the IP address I am able to access the server. Note that this error is encountered in ASP.NE... |
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Can Microsoft take a page from open source? (Feb 01 2005 01:02 GMT) - While Microsoft will not actually deliver any new bits at the VSLive Conference in San Francisco next week, the company will share the status of some of its key tools and discuss release targets. Sources said Microsoft plans to announce that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005; Beta 3 of SQL Server 2005; and the much-anticipated first CTP of Indigo, the new communications subsystem for the upcoming version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, all will be released on March 31. |
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Microsoft's answer to Linux (Feb 01 2005 01:02 GMT) - Linux gets a good share of the headlines, but Windows server software is grabbing a good share of the dough. In reporting its second-quarter financial results Thursday, Microsoft said revenue at its Server and Tools division, which caters to business customers, grew 18 percent year over year. Licenses sales of Windows server, which competes head-to-head with open-source software Linux and other server operating systems, grew 17 percent year over year. |
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[Gaylive.be] Spongebob is geen homo of hetero (Feb 01 2005 01:01 GMT) - Spongebob Squarepants is a-seksueel. Met deze uitspraak ontkent bedenker Stephen Hillenburg dat zijn sponsachtig tekenfilmfiguurtje homo is. De tekenfilmmaker reageert hiermee op beschuldigingen van een aantal Amerikaanse conservatieve christelijke groeperingen die vorige week beweerden dat zijn gele sponsheld 'homo' zou zijn. |
Outside The Beltway
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?All I Ate Was A Little Soup? (Feb 01 2005 01:00 GMT) - The leading contender for the 2008 Democratic nomination collapsed today just before she was to give an address on health care. That'll teach her to accept dinner invitations from Massachusetts senators. |
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Missive 1107218737 (Feb 01 2005 01:00 GMT) - nyu has a nice win95 download page including the now-old but still useful cosmo vrml plugin. |
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Strange world (Feb 01 2005 01:00 GMT) - Pro-anorexia websites and Israeli neo-Nazis : the world is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine. |
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Mink Media new launch (Feb 01 2005 01:00 GMT) - We unveiled a new site today. Rising Slowly a blog for people affected by Britain's weather. That'd be a lot of us, then.... |
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Son (Feb 01 2005 01:00 GMT) - Son now has a blog here. He's not writing (at three weeks, why should he), I am.... |
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