November 2004 - Posts
I will be attending this and going to represent in MS Community Pavillion. This will be my first attendance to a mobile technology event after I got my Pocket PC 
Brief :
Microsoft MDC-India 2004 is the premier developer event for building and bringing to market mobile and embedded solutions - devices, platforms, applications, content and services - for the Windows Mobile and Embedded platforms. A must attend event for developers, IT professionals, architects, business and technical decision makers seeking knowledge about the latest platform advances for mobile and embedded technologies, including Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones, .NET Compact Framework, Windows CE 5.0, Windows XP Embedded, SQL Server CE, ASP.NET and other Microsoft mobile and embedded technologies.
Technologies to be Discussed
- Device and PC Platform Futures
- .NET Technologies
- Server Technologies
- Development Tools
Speakers
Sanjay Parthasarathy (Corporate VP, .NET Platform Strategy) - Keynote Presentation
Douglas Boling (Principal, Boling Consulting) - .NET CF & Win CE Presentations and Hands-on-Lab
Kevin Collins (Senior Director, Developer Tools) - SQL CE Presentations and Hands-on-Lab
Kevin Lisota (Product Manager, Mobile & Embedded Devices Group) - Win Mobile Presentations
Ed Kaim (Entrepreneur) - .NET Compact Framework Presentations and Lab
Good news from Soma on ZBB Hit for Visual Studio 2005.
Namaste VS 2005 ! 
I don't know how MS builds it's massive knowledge base (KB), but I found some technical glitches here...
This was probably written or narrated by some technical writers but not a true techinician.
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;821778&spid=2988&sid=118
"The ICodeGenerator interface is used to generate code in a particular language dynamically."
in the above statement, how an interface can be used to generate code ? 
It can be implemented to do anything internally
except the signatures of the methods...
"To create the code in C#, call the CreateGenerator method of CSharpCodeProvider, and then assign this to the object of ICodeGenerator."
how to assign it to an object of ICodeGenerator? Object of the type ICodeGenerator? or Object of a collection called ICodeGenerator (ignore coding standards 
)
This article looks like a narration to code given by experts with out having knowledge on technology. I hope KB Team will enhance thier quality of productivity very soon.
from INETA India Newsletter
Hyderabad Explores, Bangalore Dates
Academic activities continue to be the highlight in the community activities. Last month saw 2 very successive events conducted by Student chapters of .NET UGs- .NET Explorer # in Hyderabad on 10th October & Date with .NET V2.0 in Bangalore on 5th & 6th November.
Hyderabad: .NET Explored # was organized by DNUGHS, the student Chapter of Microsoft User group Hyderabad (MUGH). The day long event attracted 2000+ students. The students got an opportunity to meet industry leaders during the keynote. Mr.Srini Kopulu, Managing Director, Microsoft India spoke to his experiences with COM and the future with trustworthy computing. Mr.J.A.Chowdary, CEO Portal Player and Mr.Rohit Kumar, V.P, Wipro Technologies were the chief guests for the event. This was followed by a overview talk on .NET by Mr. Janakiram , Academic Evangelist, Microsoft India. Paper presentations, debates & quiz gave the students a platform to innovate and flaunt their skills. All attendees took away beta copies of VS 2005 and Academic resource kits. The event concluded with a enthralling rock show by “Sledge”.
Bangalore: Date with .NET V2.0 was second such event in 2004 by BDOTNETStudent, the student chapter of Bangalore .NET User Group. The 2 event attracted 1000 attendees from 25 colleges from various cities including Bangalore, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Vijaywada and even Kottayam(Kerala). Mr.Deepak Gulati, Mr.Gaurav Khanna and Mr.Kevin DSouza delivered sessions on Microsoft – Past, Present and Future, Garbage Collection in .NET and Windows Embedded respectively. ThoughtWorks gave a talk on Webservices and Service Oriented Architecture. INETA helped BDOTNETStudent to announce the beginning of a library of .NET books for members of the usergroup. The event blended technical & cultural events. Software demonstrations, paper presentations, painting & collage competitions, dance competitions enthralled the audience & participants thrived for the top spot. All attendees took away beta copies of VS 2005 and Academic resource kits. Sunil Jagadish, one of the event co-ordinators described the event as "romantic date!”
I will starting blogging on Fables oriented issues on life very soon on my The Seven Colors of Life blog.
Thanks to anil to get this addiction on to me via my Pocket PC, and thanks to Microsoft Reader, I am loving it :-)
Fables :- Very similiar to Indian Panchatantra and Jataka Tales (ancient to Fables), fables are Nearly as old as the Olympics, bigger than Dinosaur, older than the Titanic, more complex than Pokemon and more of them than Beanie Babies are Aesop's Fables. Every day hundreds of entire classrooms of kids from all over the world stop by to read, learn and enhance their living experience.
My source for fables : http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
Security researchers are calling attention to what they called a "fairly significant" vulnerability in Sun Microsystems Java virtual machine that gives crackers access to a user's files.
According to iDefense, the vulnerability targets the internal packages within Sun's JVM on certain versions of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.2 running on the Unix and Windows platform with Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla and Firefox. The JVM allows Java code to run on any platform, regardless of the operating system. With the JVM breached, the attacker has access to the user's network and gives them privileges to access, download, upload or execute files within the user's PC or workstation.
More here...
I did'nt noticed it
Gmail is officially on POP access...(from Gmail 'Help')
Thanks...Gmail team.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, has news for Internet users who are sick of being bombarded with spam mail.
At a two-day Microsoft-sponsored Asia Leadership Forum in Singapore, Ballmer revealed that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates receives 4 million e-mails every day, which probably makes him the most 'spammed' person in the world, reported The Australian on Thursday.
However, unlike lesser mortals, the world's richest man has an entire department to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, said the newspaper.
"There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world," Mr Ballmer said referring to Mr Gates and himself. Bill Gates (is number one) because he is Bill Gates. Bill literally receives four million pieces of email per day, most of it spam," Ballmer said at the conference.
Ballmer said he was also one of the most spammed people in the world because he gave out his e-mail address -- stevebmicrosoft.com -- at all his public speeches.
Source : Rediff News.
Got this information from Geetesh, my fellow MVP...Thanks MS :-)
The Windows Update Services Evaluation site went live on www.microsoft.com/wus last night at 1:00am Pacific Standard Time on November 16th, 2004.
This beta is a key milestone for Windows Update Services. You can sign up and download the bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wus/trial.mspx
Prerequisite for WUS
Background Intelligent Transfer Services (BITS) 2.0 beta must be installed prior to installing WUS. BITS enables the download of updates in the background
using available network bandwidth. BITS 2.0 beta is compatible with servers running Windows 2000 Server SP4 and above, or Windows Server 2003.
The Newsgroup information for the open evaluation beta can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wus/newsgroup.mspx
Microsoft has also started a Windows Update Services "Wiki" to try and build a substantial amount of product expertise, best practices,
support information, application ideas, and basic FAQ's and how to's.
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