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On this site (in french) a good tip to test that a web page exist before calling the page (C#)

I found this article useful to setup .Net 1.1 and IIS6

New service pack for MSXML 4 and if you want to know more, there you will find the release notes.

Thanks to Sijin Joseph  to provide this info about Safari. I think it's a very good idea.

Just want to add that it's sad that O'Reilly don't provide a real free trial registration. You must give your credit card number before having access to the 14 day trial period.

I would like to know more about this service, by trying it. I still like real books, but I think this is a good online reference and accessible when you don't have the book in your hand. How many times I have to carry my books all along !

I'll be glad to see if the books pages are a little bit longer onscreen than the preview version seems to show.

Victor Garcia Aprea has a great detail about the new validation request feature from Microsoft.

Australia's The Advertiser newspaper has reported that a Scarborough, Perth man was lucky to escape unharmed after he attempted to recharge his mobile phone - in a microwave phone.

I was this afternoon at the launch of Windows 2003 and VS Net 2003 in Dublin.

My feedback on this:

I like the venue (unfortunately I didn't won an Xbox or a PocketPC !), but I found the format of the presentations a bit messy.

To explain a little bit more, I would say that as usual, Microsoft said we are the best, we made mistakes in the past, but now believe us, nothing can't be better.
Better than what? The next release maybe Windows 2005 or Windows 2010.

I think this kind of approach start for me to be outdated. I am in this business since 1979, and guys, believe me, I was at so many company meetings, where the
speaker said we have the best product, nothing can be better than this.
And few months after, again the same speech.

The focus was mainly on security aspect of Windows 2003, and after that session, if you don't know that Windows 2003 is hyper secure, you must be deaf!

The Microsoft speaker (I don't remember his name) tried to convince everybody that Windows 2003 has really 600 new features. Yes ok, but why spending so much time on a long and quite boring enumeration of all of them, every time back to a kind of comparison table with the previous version?

Something new for me is they have videos about some companies in Ireland, having already setup Windows 2003 Server, and all in the same coice saying that Microsoft did a very good job on all aspect, and of course security.

Quite surprising, when you know the product is suppose to be new with not really a huge base and some missing service packs.

How can they be so sure about windows 2003 without any experience on it? I have usually some doubts on this kind of testimony,

We are all carrying most a time a very useful thing, I mean a watch. So a german company Laks has just launched
a watch with a plus, memory !!

From 32 Mb to 128 Mb connected by USB. Cool ;-)