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November 2004 - Posts

Don't Give Up on that Hard Drive?
Saturday, November 27, 2004 7:27 AM

The other night my wife told me that her hard drive was dead. A quick glance revealed the familiar "Operating System Not Found" error on the screen from an aborted boot.Before giving up on it I thought I'd try a tool from the Windows XP CD, however.

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Adobe Reader 7.0 Available
Monday, November 15, 2004 6:24 AM

On Monday Adobe will be releasing version 7.0 of their Acrobat product. Among other things the new version will let people authoring documents with 7.0 turn on the commenting features which will let people using just the Reader annotate the

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I Don't Podcast and I Feel Guilty About That
Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:46 AM

I haven't gotten into Podcasting yet and I feel like I'm losing what little cool I have. Sure I've got a GMail address and a PDA phone but until I start Podcasting I must be slipping behind the curve.Are any of you podcasting? Use

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Does Dragging a File Move or Copy?
Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:38 AM

Scoble pointed out that Raymond Chen has an interesting post on his blog about whether dragging a file results in a move or a copy in Windows.Don't forget to read the comments to Raymond's post, they are interesting as well.-B-

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Are You On Time?
Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:28 AM

Had an interesting problem at a client's site on Friday -- they have two domain controllers (one Win2000 and one Win2003) and the active directory replication between the two inexplicably stopped working about a month ago. The site is fairly low

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More on the MSN Search vs. Google Battle
Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:22 AM

Here's an interesting article from the Washington Post comparing the two major players in the search engine battle.Consensus seems to be that Google is still the superior product. Competition is good, though, it will only improve both products.-B

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Microsoft's New Search Engine
Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:16 PM

Microsoft has unveiled the beta of their challenger to Google: MSN Search. I've given it a try and so far I have to say that I like it. Maybe not quite as fast as Google but it's still in beta. But for quality of results and presentation

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Windows Media Center starting to gain steam...
Monday, November 08, 2004 7:36 AM

Today I saw the first commercial (well, the first one I've seen) for the new Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition which pointed us to a site (http://www.digitaljoy.com) where we can buy Media Edition equipped PCs.This is the TiVo on steroids...basically

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A Unique View of Your Harddrive
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:42 AM

Neat idea - Sequoia Treeview lets you see a squarified treeview of your entire drive. Helps you quickly find those huge files that are sucking up space.http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/Not sure I could really use this on a regular basis, but it

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