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So guess what that picture is of? It’s of my iPod Video running Linux, skinned to match Vista Media Player 🙂 Not only can I play MP3 and videos, I can play OGG Vorbis and FLAC on my ipod now. … Read More »

Myself and several others are in the process of launching a new site, Xmilk.com Our goal is to build a forum/community around Home Media, including Windows media center, MythTV, MediaTomb, homebrew DVR, Upnp, etc. We’ve also got a few people … Read More »

An amazingly useful little tool to let you export and re-import those custom profile properties across your testing/dev servers.  Makes deployment much easier. And you thought this was another sharepoint tool you’d have to write by hand? http://www.codeplex.com/MOSSProfileReplicate/ Also, for … Read More »

Banners hanging this morning on the Redmond campus, Building 118, marking the launch of the Office Communications Server. Caught a picture on my phone through the rain. Check out the Microsoft Unified Communication site to learn more about this awesome … Read More »

You must URL encode any data you’ll pass on in a query string, such as a form post, or other url parameters. I’m always having to look these up, so this article is as much for my reference as yours. … Read More »

When a user does not have access to a site, they will recieve the default request access page.   This is the page located at:

And physically located at:

If you go open the file from it’s physical path, … Read More »

The Windows RE replaces the recovery console from XP, and is really a pretty slick environment.  The problem is, Microsoft didn’t think we’d use it much, and it doesn’t install automatically onto your machine.  Of course you can use it … Read More »

Had an irritating experience last night when after rebooting, Vista informed me that it could not start due to a missing or corrupt ‘c:windowssystem32driverssptd.sys’ It took me a while to get this solved, so hopefully I can save someone else … Read More »

When installing Performance Point Server CTP4, I kept getting this error towards the end of the configuration process. It seems it is a failure in creating a web application, and it’s relatively easy to get past. Do an IISReset Restart … Read More »

It’s easy to leverage the email server SharePoint is configured with already. This is the mail server used for alerts and notifications within the portal system. You’ll need to add a reference to the Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespace.

Then just use … Read More »