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  • Windows Services for Unix 3.5 are for free now

    Microsoft  Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 (SFU 3.5), formerly retailing for $99.95 US, is now a free download.

    Version 3.5 of the software promises greatly improved cross-platform interoperability, as well as beefed up administrative and managerial functionality.

    On top of the cross-platform bells and whistles, SFU 3.5 also allows UNIX applications to be made accessible through .NET Web services.

  • IIS 5 Isolation mode

    A couple of weeks ago I had some trouble with windows 2003/IIS 6. Finally I got my asp.net application which uses a COM component to work under windows 2003. I tried everything, I even gave my Network Service account administrator rights and even that didn't work. Until I found the IIS 5 Isolation mode option in the IIS manager. So if you're having problems getting a asp.net application to work under IIS 6 and getting desperate, try the IIS 5 Isolation mode. You can find it this way:  Right click on Websites in the IIS Manager, choose Service and check the IIS 5 Isolation mode checkbox.

    From: Jonne Kats
    Via: Tech Guru

  • Sandbar

    SandBar is a powerful toolbar and menu library for Windows Forms on the .NET framework. It boasts a comprehensive range of features that you would come to expect from a modern UI library and is designed to make your application look and feel like either Office XP or Office 2003 without writing a single line of code.

  • Bindows

    Bindows™ is a Graphical User Interface Toolkit for writing rich client side web applications with the look, feel and behavior of modern Windows™ applications. Bindows applications are lightweight applications with zero footprint which means no installation required.

  • Widgets

    Stedy is a site to visit if you search  for some DHTML code.

    They almost simulate a full window application in a web browser

  • My 6th PC

    I just installed my last PC (number 6) in my office and well it's an Apple G5 dual processor with 1 GB Ram.

    My office looks like a kind of mad laboratory with such so many screens ;-)

    But hey it's cool to be a geek. I am going to use the new G5 as a design machine but also to maintain a good bunch of small webistes we have here running on a Solaris server.

    I made the decision few weeks ago when I had to chose something running Unix, well Apache to be exact to test some new projects.

    Between a PC/Linux box and an Apple you know now what I chose.
    So far the G5 is a winner regarding the design, the flat screen (look like a frame you want to have on your wall to replace the huge TV box sitting at home)

  • Your Webness

    Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), will be made a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth. This was announced earlier today by Buckingham Palace as part of the 2004 New Year's Honours list.