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Google Spam
Is Google an infallible power?
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Is rebooting a cure all?
I hate rebooting. Most people do. All too often though, it's the only way to get running again. Think it's a problem only to Microsoft Windows? Imagine having to do 130 reboots before you could get working again. That’s what NASA’s Mars rover Spirit had to do when it ran out of memory on January 21, 2003.
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Programming Directory Services with Microsoft .NET and XML
As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming. When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000” into the title of the book, as it would seem obsolete when the next version of the Windows Server came out.
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History of keyboard access in Windows
This is a response to a posting on the Windows Off-Topic Tech mailing list concerning keyboard access to the taskbar...
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More taskbar/tray keyboard access
Apparently, the shell team at Microsoft threw in another keyboard shortcut to get focus to the tray notification area. This is the section of the taskbar that contains the clock and various status icons. For example, if updates are available on Windows Update, the Volume control (if enabled), and network status.