October 2003 - Posts

Office 2003 rocks

Published Fri, Oct 31 2003 5:12 | girishb

Office 2003, particularly Outlook 2003 rocks. They finally understood that people have 1600x1200 monitors where it would be nice to read the whole email. The marriage between Messenger and Outlook is nice. Cool stuff..

Longhorn SDK

Published Tue, Oct 28 2003 2:24 | girishb

Longhorn SDK is here . woohoo..

C# 2.0 Specs are now open

Published Fri, Oct 24 2003 9:10 | girishb

C# 2.0 specs are now available. Read it now. Awesome features, Generics, anonymous methods, iterators. Cant wait for Whidbey to come out..

WMI and .NET

Published Fri, Oct 24 2003 4:06 | girishb

I think there are many setup information questions that can be answered by poking around the Win32_XXXX stuff from WMI. There are several articles regarding this. I am thinking of writing a simple application which can be used to lookup some of this stuff...

Coolest .NET blog ever

Published Thu, Oct 23 2003 5:28 | girishb

Chris Brumme is a prolific writer. You should read this to know the innards of .NET platform. Cool stuff!!!!

Pretty neat HRESULT discussion

Published Wed, Oct 22 2003 11:34 | girishb

How many times have you been staring -2147024877 from a JScript code? Well, fear no more. Here Eric Lippert shows how to figure out what it really means. http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericli/PermaLink.aspx/685ded4f-caa1-4807-9865-edf532dc8912

DNS servers

Published Wed, Oct 22 2003 8:33 | girishb

I saw this question about finding out the name of the "nameserver" on a given box. One way to do that would be to use the Registry classes and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters and look at the NameServer...

How to distribute work

Published Wed, Oct 22 2003 3:09 | girishb

I am currently working on an effort to change the way we bring data into our application. A new member is joining us. Yesterday has been basically about initiating that guy to start off. I am thinking that I should offload some of my work. But, then,...

Internet at last

Published Mon, Oct 20 2003 15:20 | girishb

Aaah.. At last I got internet from verizon at home. Man, that was painful week.. without the internet. Now I can breath easy and so can my wife. What .. You dont have this feeling? Anyway, considering I am blogging at this time rather than watching something...

iTunes for windows

Published Mon, Oct 20 2003 7:32 | girishb

I have an iPod (10 Gb) for windows. Pretty cool toy to own. I am thrilled with the new iTunes that apple has come out it with. But, for some reason I am just not able to import the MP3s I have on the machine. I need to figure out why this is so.. I wonder...

Travails of a DSL customer to-be

Published Mon, Oct 20 2003 3:28 | girishb

I am getting DSL from Verizon for my new house that I bought at Westford, MA. My wife really needs her dose of internet in the morning or she starts showing withdrawal symptoms. Its been more than a week and those guys in Verizon have still not activated...

Musings #1

Published Fri, Oct 17 2003 9:16 | girishb

Hi, How are you? Thank you for visiting this blog by me. I am surprised that somebody is actually bored enough to read this. But, then again, I read " Bubba Ho-tep" review carefully. hehe Anyway.. This will be my SOAP box.. :) unrelated to Don Box or...