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• Questions from the masses

  Jeff, I feel your pain , although I've not had a question list quite lke that one. You're right though, you do feel guilty when the recommended solution is "buy my book". If the solution is too complex to get over in a simple email I tend to try and give Read More... Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:03 AM by dsussman | 1 Comments Filed under: life, books, writing

• God made integers, all the rest is the work of the devil

  So, working with Yukon at the moment and wasn't having a very good week. Finally got some code working , but some of my conversions weren't giving the right values. This is GIS stuff, so I'm dealing with Latitude & Longitude, converting to decimal Read More... Posted Sunday, July 18, 2004 3:04 PM by dsussman | 3 Comments Filed under: .net, life

• Disc/Partition Cloning

  I've been holding off on getting a new laptop, but finally went for it - a Dell Inspiron 510m, excellent screen, big disk and lots of memory. And very nice it is to. Since the disk is big I'm going for 3 boot partitions: a stable one running .net 1.1, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:10 PM by dsussman | 5 Comments Filed under: life

• Graphic design

  My friend Lou has finally joined the throngs of self-employed with her new graphic design service Frog Box . She designed my web site plus business cards, and has come up with some cool stuff for a new Al and Dave design, which we might eventually get Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:19 PM by dsussman | 0 Comments Filed under: life

• Never too old to learn

  I spent 3 days last week on a course at DevTrain , the company I'm going to start doing training for. This was the Web Apps with C# course, aimed at beginners. Now I'm not a beginner but I am going to train this course, so I sat in to see how the current Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:09 PM by dsussman | 0 Comments Filed under: life

• Longhorn WinHEC and VPC

  So, I've just installed the WinHEC build of Longhorn in a VPC image, installed the additions with everything working fine. I then joined the domain, which prompts a reboot. Upon restart the screen displays "Use Ctrl-Alt-Del to login" but it doesn't work. Read More... Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 4:17 PM by dsussman | 0 Comments Filed under: life

• Microsoft and the EU

  Julia links to some satire regarding Microsoft and the EU . I for one, as an EU citizen (a reluctant one at that - I'm English) think this is a bad move for the consumer. There's plenty of talk about home consumers don't want these features supplied as Read More... Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 5:26 PM by dsussman | 0 Comments Filed under: life