November 2003 - Posts

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The Universe as a Hologram by Tim Marman

The Universe as a Hologram - Fascinating read, figured I'd pass it along. Found via Hackthematrix .
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Political correctness gone awry... by Tim Marman

This is ridiculous. Obviously, the master/slave naming convention is quite popular in the computer industry, so I thought you guys might appreciate this. Excerpted from here . Eugene also has some commentary and a further discussion on some of the legal...
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A response to comments on my previous post by Tim Marman

Just wanted to respond to some of the comments by Stephane on my previous post. I was going to do this in the comments, but it was getting a little long, as you can see, so I decided to make them a post of their own. 24 years, and yet you don't seem to...
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Innovation, Longhorn, and close-minded zealots by Tim Marman

It amazes me how irrational some people can be. Mikey has a nice rebuttal , so read that. In my limited 24 years of experience life, one thing I have learned to be very skeptical of those close-minded zealots. It seems some people hate certain things...
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Synchronizing Outlook 2003 PST between two machines by Tim Marman

Has anyone found an effective way to do this? I'm exploring the idea of installing Exchange Server 2003, but I'd prefer not to have to do that. Ideally, I'm looking for something like ActiveSync between machines. I've looked at a few tools but haven't...
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Odd inline JScript behavior in Internet Explorer by Tim Marman

It seems something has changed, because I'm sure this worked before. I'm trying to track down the specific changes and I'll update this post when I get more details. I'm able to reproduce this on my work machine as well as my Tablet PC. The version of...
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MS Matrix Parody by Tim Marman

Just passed along by a friend: Bill Gates stars in Matrix spoof Everything that has a beginning has an end — and sometimes an unexpected parody. In one unlikely riff on The Matrix , Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates stars as the enigmatic...
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Software architecture and simple grammar by Tim Marman

Ironically, for different reasons, solutions that are over-engineered and under-engineered share a similar problem: they tend to be inflexible. Even well-designed object hierarchies - what we'll call the over-engineered solution - are weak here because...
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.Text Web Services by Tim Marman

Update: I have resolved the problem, so I figured I'd update this with the answer in case anyone else is seeing the same thing. I was having a problem adding the reference to the .Text services. When invoking anything, I would get the following message...
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OneNote tips by Tim Marman

You can partially scratch one of the items on my OneNote wishlist . If you disable the “Use pen pressure sensitivity” item in the Handwriting options, the pen becomes very thin (one of my big complaints). It's not adjustable per se, but at...
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