The very best of Dilbert
1.Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
2.If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
3.Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
4.Eat one live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
5.If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
6.I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
7.Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
8.Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.
9.Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing him again.
10,I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.
11.You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter
12.Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
13.A pat on the back is only a few centimetres from a kick in the butt.
14.Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
15.If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
16.To err is human, to forgive is not our policy.
17.Following the rules will not get the job done. Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules
18.Only the mediocre are at their best all the time
19.There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
20.When everything is coming your way......you're in the wrong lane.

Cute animal pics
www.speedysigns.com/decals/ CARTOONS_Animals.asp

www.french.about.com

"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code." - Dan Salomon

"You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem." - Edwards' Law

"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work

"Theory and Practice are the same... in Theory" - Unknown (but taken from Scott Daniels of OGI)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams

"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity." - W.A. Wulf

"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(got totally lost when i read that )

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
-- Edward de Bono

"Leadership requires great courage. It is tough to leave the gravitational pull of the crowd around us. It is tough to take the road less traveled when everyone urges you to be like everyone else. It is tough to create your life on your own terms when others are telling you how your life should be created. But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than laying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams."
Robin Sharma

Browser war story, but with more hostoric details
http://news.com.com/2009-1032-995681.html?tag=toc

MICROSOFT
Today, Microsoft continues to dominate the PC software industry, holding more than $52 billion in cash and short-term investments despite the stagnation in high-tech spending. This, analysts say, points to the Redmond, Wash., giant's ultimate success--the preservation of its leadership status and a formidable war chest to fend off any threat to the Windows empire, whether it be Web browsers, Java, Linux or any other technology

.NET - Java done right

"Programming is the manipulation of complex abstractions"

MSDN
Who says MSDN is for geeks only ... find how to read the balance sheet of a company here

Hack
Jon Johansen the hacker who made DeCSS for DVD has released a hack to bypass Apples iTunes DRM (Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format)

Debian Linux site was also hacked... but nothing hit the papers .. even the statment the CEO made stinks !!

DirectX
Links to DX and MDX
http://www.dotnetforums.net/t75901.html

DirectX tutorials
http://staff.develop.com/candera/weblog2/articleview.aspx/DirectX

http://www.kuhnstall.de/tutorials.html

MyMSEvents.com
Good site for PDC and Technet related stuff

PDC 2003
Collection of all the PDC 2003 documents
Awesome collection of ppts and discussions

Some interesting facts of COBOL
* 75% of all business data is processed in COBOL. - Gartner Group
* There are between 180 billion and 200 billion lines of COBOL code in use worldwide. - Gartner Group
* 15% of all new applications (5 billion lines) through 2005 will be in COBOL. - Gartner Group
* CICS transaction volume (such as COBOL-based ATM transactions) grew from 20 billion per day in 1998 to 30 billion per day in 2002. - The Cobol Report
* There are over 90,000 COBOL programmers in North America in 2002. Over the next four years there will be a 13% decrease in their number due to retirement and death. - Gartner Group
* The most highly paid programmers in the next ten years are going to be COBOL programmers who know the Internet. - GIGA Group

MS
Here Comes Virtual PC 2004; There Goes Linux Support
Next week, Microsoft will finalize the code for Microsoft Virtual
PC 2004, the most recent version of the virtual machine (VM)
technology the company purchased from Connectix earlier this year.
I've been a Virtual PC customer for years, and although I was happy to
see Microsoft select what I feel is the superior VM technology, I'm
now distressed to see how the company is changing the program.
Previously, Virtual PC was an excellent platform for testing
alternative OSs such as Linux. But Microsoft has killed support for
Linux and other non-Microsoft systems, although the company curiously
still supports OS/2. The reason? Microsoft is positioning Virtual PC
as a way to run legacy Windows NT and Windows 9x applications in VM
environments on modern Windows versions

Linux vs MS
Germany Installs 11,000 New PCs. Windows PCs. Running Office 2003.
We've been hearing a lot about Germany installing Linux PCs this
year--even though most of them will run Windows applications inside a
VMWare VM environment--but this week, Microsoft revealed that it
continues to grab the lion's share of software installations in a
country that the mainstream press would have you believe is "going
Linux." Microsoft will install Office 2003 on 110,000 PCs in North
Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the largest and most populated state in
Germany. NRW said that it chose Office 2003 largely for its XML
capabilities.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Carnegie
Mellon University, all the complaints about Microsoft having security
problems are bunk. In fact, a report from the two organizations
specifically calls for all the finger-pointing to stop because all
technology is inherently vulnerable, and simply blaming Microsoft for
everything obscures a bigger problem: Microsoft doesn't own or control
the Internet infrastructure, which is extremely vulnerable to attack.
Furthermore, the report says, more than 90 percent of all
Microsoft-related attacks--including the two most infamous recent
attacks, MSBlaster and SoBig.F--involved vulnerabilities that the
company had already fixed.

Red Hat CEO: Use Windows--It's Better
You just can't make up this stuff. Matthew Szulik, CEO of Linux
maker Red Hat Linux, said this week that Windows is a better choice on
the desktop than--yes--Linux. "I would say that for the consumer
marketplace, Windows probably continues to be the right product line,"
Szulik said

CyberInsecurity
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released document
http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf

MS patterns site
Been searching for this ... better blogg it for later reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/type/Architectures/default.asp

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
-Shakespeare

Good article about Obfuscation
http://www.preemptive.com/dotfuscator/DotfuscatorFAQ.html

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
-Stephen Hawking

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
-Stephen Hawking

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
-Joshua J. Marine

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
-Richard L. Evans

"Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by."
-John Sales

"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
-Dudley Field Malone

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
-Sydney Harris

"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
-Andrew Brown

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-Robert Frost

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - )

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"

IT
Computer-services firms such as IBM and Accenture are expected to post improved earnings for the latest quarter, amid signs of stabilization in the technology-consulting market

Cyber crime
Hackers stole the source code of the highly anticipated computer game "Half-Life 2" and circulated it on the Internet. It is one of the highest profile cases of cybercrime yet to hit the $10 billion videogame industry

Dell
Dell to enter home entertainment and home electronic segment.
dell is opening a music download portal.

CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly
The lead author of the controversial report about Microsoft
security risks, "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly," found himself
sans job yesterday when his employer, @stake, discovered he promoted
his company credentials when he wrote and publicized the report.
According to @stake, Daniel Greer, the company's former chief
technology officer (CTO), "is no longer associated" with the company;
@stake also noted that "the values and opinions of the report are not
in line with [@stake's] views." Conspiracy theorists will ignore the
fact that both Microsoft and @stake said the software giant had
nothing to do with Greer's firing, but bigger concerns are at stake
than just one man's job. Because Microsoft's largest competitors
sponsored the report, how valuable or accurate the report can
therefore be is unclear. Sponsoring a report that touts the
competitive advantages of your own product is one thing, but pushing
competitors' opinions on governments that are in a position to
dramatically alter the competitive landscape is another thing
entirely. In the meantime, the accusations are going to fly.

"The more opinions you have, the less you see."
-Wim Wenders

ATM + Windows
According to a study that Celent Communications published last
week, most ATMs in the United States will be running a Windows OS by
2005, a scary proposition for anyone who's seen the Blue Screen of
Death or other crashes while doing such innocuous things as copying a
file or printing. But, hey, I'm sure Windows is up to the task of
accurately dispensing money and properly debiting my checking account.
Apparently, the banking industry is finally getting ready to dump the
aging and rarely updated IBM OS/2, which is the most common ATM OS
these days, and move to Windows, which is more compatible with the
networks that banks now use

Cold reading
http://skepdic.com/coldread.html
http://www.andypryke.com/pub/ColdReading

Linux Security
Linux still suffers from far more security bugs and other vulnerabilities than Windows does. Researchers at mi2g Intelligence Unit, which has been tracking and verifying computer-based vulnerabilities since 1995, say that in August 67 percent of all successful and verifiable attacks against servers targeted Linux, compared with just 23.2 percent that targeted Windows--and August was the month during which SoBig.F and MSBlaster hit. Furthermore, 12,892 e-business sites running Linux were
successfully breached during that month, compared with just 4626 sites running Windows. Windows vulnerabilities get more press because more people run Windows on the desktop, so any Windows-based worms or viruses will generally affect a far larger group of individuals. But anyone who thinks that jumping to Linux is a cure-all should think again.

SUN
Bill Joy leaves Sun today

Microsoft Promotes WMV as Industry Standard
Microsoft announced yesterday that it will offer its Windows Media
Video (WMV) 9 video-compression technologies as an industry standard
to provide third parties with its superior video format at a lower
cost. The company says that yesterday it presented WMV 9, which
launched in January, to the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers (SMPTE), an international standards body, for review. If
adopted as a standard, WMV 9 would be more accessible to third parties
because its specifications would be open.

Linux
The governments of China, Japan, and South Korea are banding
together to create an open-source OS (likely to be based on Linux)

The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/microsoft.html

Microsoft Signs OS Deal with Motorola
Microsoft has reportedly signed an important deal with Motorola to
supply the cell-phone maker with a version of Windows Mobile OS for
smart cell phones. Motorola, the world's second-largest cell-phone
maker, only recently--and not coincidentally--sold its stake in
Symbian, Microsoft's largest competitor in the smart cell-phone
market. Motorola had previously said it would look to Linux for its
future designs

TSQL
sp_passsword -> Changes password for a specific login name.
e.g. EXEC sp_password ‘oldpass’, ‘newpass’, ‘username’
sp_tables -> Shows all the tables in the current database.
e.g. EXEC sp_tables
xp_cmdshell -> Runs arbitary command on the machine with administrator privileges. (most imp)
xp_msver -> Shows the MS SQL server version including the all info about the OS.
e.g. master..xp_msver
xp_regdeletekey -> Deletes a registry key.
xp_regdeletevalue ->Delets a registry value
xp_regread -> Reads a registry value
xp_regwrite -> Writes a registry key.
xp_terminate_process -> Stops a process

Good site
Great hack-resource site http://neworder.box.sk/
Good sql server security site http://sqlsecurity.com/

Quake II
Quake II source code is now available for Managed C++ using Visual Studio .NET 2003, with speeds comparable to the orginal one which was mostly written in C. The .NET version even adds new features like a "Quake radar" .. transparancy etc.
check out http://www.vertigosoftware.com/quake2.htm

.NET
Windows Automotive, the hot s/w for automobilies
now enlist clients like BMW and Toyota

AI
Great resource for AI i found
http://www.windowsforms.net/default.aspx?tabIndex=6&tabId=42 -- Terraruim
http://ai-depot.com
http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/Downloads/ada6_3/CreatingCode6_3.pdf
http://www.generation5.org/
http://www.aboutai.net/
(http://www.aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=10&category=12&categoryTitle=General+Resources)

Good FAQ list
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/faqs/ai/top.html

Good seminar video
Great articles at http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/default.aspx

DirectX SDKdownloads here

Good article on Designing Data Tier Components and Passing Data Through Tiers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/downloads/samples/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/boagag.asp

Architecture
The MS architecture pattern is really amazing once you get a hang of it.
Good patter that is really plug and play type.

Dear blog nice to be back.
Shifting companies isnt as easy as it used to be.

VS.NET
The next major releases of VS.NET are code named
1.Whidbey which will ship with Yukon
2.Orcas
The new VS.NET will take advantage of Longhorn technologies
GO .NET !!!

Salary survey
http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/research/2003ITSalarySurvey.asp?i=20

IIS Data Compression
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/qos_utilbandwdth.asp?frame=true

IIS
Port80 conducted another survey this month and again concluded that IIS dominates the Fortune 1000 market. The new survey's results indicate that IIS has 53.7 percent of the market share. The next closest competitors are Netscape and Apache Web servers, with 18.6 percent and 16 percent of the market, respectively. Netscape continues to decline as a Web server choice for Fortune 1000 companies, losing 2.4 percent in the July survey. The survey data also indicates a general shift from Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 running on Windows NT 4.0 systems to Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS) running on Windows 2000. IIS 6.0

Fact from MS from annual financial analysts meeting
- Microsoft is increasing its research and development funding in fiscal year 2004 by 8 percent.
- Microsoft has shipped 130 million Windows XP licenses; 70 percent are XP Professional Edition.
- PC sales grew 3 percent in the past year, but Microsoft's client business grew 11 percent; overall, Microsoft grew 13 percent year-over-year, thanks largely to Licensing 6.0 and users migrating to XP Pro.
- Microsoft said 350 million PCs still run Windows NT or Windows 9x.
- Windows and Linux are the only server platforms that will grow market share over the next year. Currently, Windows Server owns 53.1 percent of the server market, compared with 16.7 percent for Linux. Next year, the mix will be roughly 53.7 percent to 19.2 percent in Windows' favor. Windows Server sales grew 7.7 percent in fiscal year 2003, compared with 19.2 percent for Linux.
- Today, 37 percent of developers use Microsoft .NET, compared with 34 percent for Java (a year ago the ratio was 25:30). More than 2.5 million developers use .NET technologies.
- Microsoft has sold more than 150 million Microsoft Exchange Server seats worldwide.
- 25 million unique users visit Microsoft Office Online each month. Microsoft has shipped 9.4 million Xboxes; each customer buys an average of 5 software titles for the device, and Xbox Live has more than 500,000 paid subscribers.Microsoft Office System products that aren't part of the core Office suite earn the company more than $1 billion each year. Microsoft Project alone generated $500 million in revenue in the past year. - Microsoft applied for 1500 patents in fiscal year 2003.
- Almost half of the email that goes through Hotmail's servers or 2.4 billion messages every day--is spam; in 2001, it was only 8 percent.
- MSN Messenger is the largest free Instant Messaging (IM) service on the planet, and more than 9 million people are using the service concurrently at any given time.

AOL
AOL looses 1 million subscribers ...Not to another ISP but because of faulty count of users.AOL has 25.4 million subscribers in the United States, down from a high of 26.7 million users in late 2002.

O/S wars
CERT Coordination Center's (CERT/CC's) 2002 OS advisories, Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Red Hat Linux both garnered 12 advisories, whereas Microsoft received 5 across all Windows versions. Linux vulnerabilities were growing 21 percent faster than those from Microsoft, with the open-source solution suffering 485 vulnerabilities in 2002 compared with 202 for Microsoft.

Microsoft
Microsoft's $53.5 billion in bonds, cash, and stock investments has
performed pretty well for the company, according to chief financial
officer (CFO) John Connors. In the last fiscal year, Microsoft's
investments earned 7.5 percent, and the company now has $49 billion in
cash and short-term investments. Not too shabby.

Longhorn
CEO Steve Ballmer's comments . "There needs to be periodic big
bangs," he said. "That's how we think about Longhorn."

MS news
In its first 90 days of availability, Windows Server 2003 has
outsold Windows 2000 three to one compared with Win2K's first 90 days

MS + AOL
After settling to use IE on AOL. now AOL plans to use MS products Interactive Program Guide (IPG) and Microsoft TV Foundation
Edition software for cable set-top boxes.
One day AOL is gonna regret this ;)

MS Shopping List
List of companies that MS bought over the years

Intel
Intel turns 35 this week ... powering 98% of all desktops

XPE
http://www.embedded-forecast.com
States that Embedded system manufacturers on average take 76 percent longer and spend over 300 percent more to develop and bring to market embedded systems using Embedded Linux as compared to Microsoft Windows Embedded.

SQL Server
Yukon Hits General Beta ... great now u can write sprocs in any .NET lang

Linux to power Munichs windows application
This is a screwed up case ....
Gartner has released a report where in there are details that all the 14,000 Linux PCs will be used to run VMWare to run windows application

MS
The company reported revenues of $7.25 billion, an 11 percent gain year over year.

RIP Netscape
Finally...finally Netscape is netscrape.. AOL retires NS.
Guess the mozilla guys arent too happy about that .. AOL to donate 2M towards mozilla
But the war is already won in the MS stables.
Great now i dont have to make cross browser application :^)

Ur Name
Find out the meaning of ur name here

People
People who influenced the future of computing

Women
For the uninitiated how to detect a woman ;)

Codenames
How the windows products got its code names :)

SQL Server Application Roles
Read more here

Microsoft System Architecture 2.0
MSA 2.0 just released read more here

010101010
Incas wrote in binary language !!! read it

My blog feed http://feeds.blogstreet.com/12667.rss

Remoting
Good remoting article here
Good article using remoting and com+ here

No Touch Deployment
Didnt realize that i was totally out of touch with winform development till i read this

found what my name means here

This is what can happen if u try to download the internet

waybackmachine
Check out how sites looked years back via this waybackmachine

waybackmachine

Googlemania
in google.com type "weapons of mass destruction" with the quotes and click "Am i feeling lucky" button

ADO.NET
Good article on in memory data manuplation (like using INNER JOIN on DataSet)

Software lives at the boundary between objective and subjective reality
- Don Box

Data Access using .net
Good article (PDF) here

Getting out is defanitely more difficult than getting in ... i know now ... 3rd day of anguish & torment

.NET Data Access Architecture Guide
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/daag.asp

Word Spy
didnt know what paraskevidekatriaphobia meant till i got to this site
Nice place to learn some new phrases

SCO Shares Linux Code
more here

if yahoo mail is blocked then use the WAP interface for accessing mail ;)
http://wap.oa.yahoo.com

.NET CLR
Good article on CLR and memory management under .NET

SOAP
SOAP 1.2 becomes a standard read more here

Nanotechnology
Spending on research and development in nanotechnology is expected to surpass $3 billion in 2003, as nations and
companies compete for leadership in the growing field, according to report.

.NET Application Blocks
The application blocks for .net are on the increase ... just 3 weeks back there were olnly 2 and now there are 8 !!
Personal note - keep an eye on this space

Avanade
MS + Accenture = Avanade

Microsoft Lands Large Army Software Contract
MS clinched the largest single-deal contract ever for the world's No. 1 software maker, a $471 million pact to provide software for 494,000 personal computers to the U.S. Army.

Just an indication of the security freatures and measures MS is putting into its s/w

Tough times for Microsoft’s competitors
Now instead going after MS they turn on each other: Sun vs. IBM, SCO Group (unix) vs. IBM (linux), Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
Sun tries to contact IBM customers and convince them to use Sun products ... business and friendship never works out ;)

"Call me opportunistic, but this is a huge opening for Sun, so we are moving quickly and aggressively to capitalize on it," Scott McNealy

Microsoft plans Palladium release
This October, at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft plans to release a preliminary software development kit for its NGSCB (Next-Generation Secure Computing Base) security technology, also known as Palladium

Man on the moon
Looks like India and China are entering the race to put man on the moon.
India says its gonna be around 2015

Belated Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
20 years ago on Jun 21 DNS was created by Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris at University of Southern California
The DNS we use today is more or less the same implementation as 20 years back !!

Apples to apples ??!!
Apples claims that the Power Mac G5 can outperform a P4 or even a Xeon
But to compare the tests they have used benchmarks that target the Macs specifically
and disable all the hyperthreading in the PCs ... going to an extent of using an
unreleased version of OS X in the test .. comeon guys ??!!

Dear blog
Been really busy with all kinds of stuff ... it was like being caught in a warp zone !!
Guess im back to blogging now :)

Microsoft Falls to Third Place in Market Value
Microsoft is no longer the second-largest company on earth; the
company fell to third place this week, thanks to strong gains by drug
maker Pfizer. Microsoft didn't actually lose any value--the company is
still valued at $279 billion--but Pfizer has seen its stock soar
recently because the company has been buying rivals and releasing
popular new products. Pfizer is now worth about $285 billion. Both
companies, however, trail General Electric (GE), which is valued at
$307 billion.

OLAP
Found a good tutorial on MS OLAP
Site has some great info on other database realated stuff on MS Sql server
And so far http://search.internet.com has been my best friend for OLAP results

Whitepapers
Some great whitepapers on OLAP

Business Intellegence
A useful review of BI platforms/products
Another article that says "Business intelligence tops 2003 tech ROI potential" ..boy am i lucky

Design patterns.....
The true test of a successful design is when the only contest between "is a" and "has a" is whether the architecture "is a-trocious" or is actually "has-a-rdous" to an outsider.

Parsing Work-Speak
Had a good laugh after reading this . After reading it im sure ud become a lot smarter
Found another hilarious one here

"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace." ... best advice ive heard all day !!!

XMLHTTP
Something I will always need to refer

.NET
Boosting the Performance of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Most expensive cities
Glad to know that im not living in one of these cities

AI
Heres an interesting project trying to teach computers common sence(which is actually uncommon)
Found some time to contribute to the cause

Winamp
Justin Frankel the guy who created the famous WinAmp is quitting NullSoft says he cant stand AOL poking into all activities after NullSoft became a part of AOL. Particularly after Waste was totally wasted (no pun intended) by AOL.

Good Links
Found another site .. The Premier Publication for Business Intelligence and Analytics
If BI was so hot .... what was i doing all this time

Microsoft vs Apple
To add to Apples woes MS is going to pull the plug on IE development for Macs.
Considering that Apple has developed Safari browser guess the mac guys wont be hit badly but then again with more and more sites developed with IE in mind web pages will begin to look like a jungle safari to 3% of computer users in the world ... hmmm...

SCO vs IBM
Its getting hot in this space ... its looking +ve in the SCO camp !
If SCO has its way all AIX customers will have to stop using AIX immediately !! .... Linux could be next
..talking about Linux makes you wonder how Linux grew so quickly out of voluntary development by guys working their a$$ of in their companies and coming home tired just to contribute to the community..am i missing the point here !!??

Companies to Watch 2003
Annual list of 60 strategic IT solution providers leading the transformation of business organizations into intelligent enterprises

Google+Microsoft
Search Microsoft-related sites using Google

Microsoft Solutions
Guys out there must be thinking ive got no other business but blogging out here ...but my search for "Business Intelligence" gets me to all kinds of sites ;)
Came across another page that offered great information on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Came across some great presentations that are a *Must See*
Even if you are from a non MS technology background just substitute the technologies with your prefered technologies
See presentations on
* microsoft solutions for internet business
* Microsoft solutions for Business Intelligence

MS SQL server gets loads of accolades

QNX
Found a nice article on the current status of QNX and its founders here

Best of E3 Awards Go To Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 was the big winner in 2003's Best of E3 Awards, given by an independent panel of game critics from around the industry. Valve's upcoming FPS sequel walked away with four awards, the most of any title, including the Best of Show accolade
and Halo 2 winning the best console game ... xbox anyone ...

View the Source in IE
Havent found a real application for this but if you want to see the source code of a page type the following in the address bar
view-source:http://

eg
view-source:http://melvinl.blogspot.com

C# Chronicles
A good article on C#

MS applications and blogging
MS doent want to miss this bandwagon. They are putting blogging capability in all their apps starting from Media player to Front page 2003
Find out more here

Sun and Java in movie business
Sun signs a deal with HBO read more here

Vanity and Microsoft files
Ever wondered what the MZ ment in the DOS/Windows files (every binary file in the had MZ as the first 2 characters)
MZ=Mark Zbikowski a distinguished engineer at MS who wrote a lot of code for DOS executable formats
now that we have moved on to .NET vanity problems still exists ;)
all .NET assemblies have the 4 characters BSJB
BSJB=Bryan harry, Susan radke-sproull,Jason Zander, Bill Evans

Fact on .NET
.NET was called various names in its history.
Oginally called project 42 then called COR (COM object runtime) and then
COM+ 2.0 then NGWS(Next Generation Windows Services) and just before PDC july 2000 it was Named .NET

Microsoft and the alphabet soup
You head of C#, J#, X# and now comes the all new F# :)

Found an interesting site for techie stuff

Google that !!
Ive been wondering who founded Google
My search finally here

Cooool icons
Some great XP stype icons you can use in your sites/apps

Nice blogs for guys wanting to to MBA
http://mbawire.blogspot.com/

O/S Chronicles
Questions Arise About SCO's Possible GPL Violations
Novell out of the fight on Unix rights .. IBM in deep blue s&*t ...even Apple computers get caught in the Unix avalanche
If your powered by windows..no sweat..continue fragging !!!

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