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Stackoverflow is now live,  very cool.  Getting one of your answers marked best is great. 

The Good Lots of Memory, my regular usage is just over 4GB, so no swapping with 8GB of real RAM.  Most things work with out any issues.  This is much improved over my experience trying 64 bit in beta. Very fast file transfers, between two my two main machines I got up to 50MB a second.  Drive to drive on the new machine I have ...

I got into the beta for stackoverflow.com a couple of weeks ago.  I have been answering a few questions and asking a few over that time.  Even with just shy of 4000 users it is a very effective place to get answers to your programming questions.   I was having trouble figuring out how to read directly from a device in .Net ...

I am working on a small personal project to learn some new things.  One my objectives is to follow the test first methodology. Something I just discovered was using SQLExpress to dynamically create databases on the fly, which makes setting up unit tests really easy. You can provide a connection string to a local database create it and add any ...

Update: I decided to go with Resharper. It is just a bit slicker then TestMatrix, and I decided the refactoring tools are worth more then the profiling tools in TestMatrix.  For some reason if you have the Architects version of Visual Studio you are not allowed to write unit tests with Visual Studio.  I guess Microsoft things that ...

Do I really need:Turbo Assembler 3.0The X Window System Programming and Applications with XTX Window Applications ProgrammingUsing XPC Interruptsand many moreI don't think I have looked at any of them in over 10 years, they are almost books historical record now.  Oh well off to the trash.

Why SQL Server doesn't do this automaticly escapes me.  If you ever restore a database you end up with a bunch of users in your database, and a bunch of users defined on your database server (well only if they were already on the server).  But they are broken half users.  Invaribly I spend half an hour trying to remember the ...

  If you don't read Penny Arcade you may have missing this.  It is pretty cool.  I playing around with it a little.  If you don't want to move your senor bar as he suggests, just multiply things  by -1 to flip things around and use the remote instead.  The default Vista Bluetooth drivers work with the Wii ...

A few years ago I worked on a project that used Subversion for as their source control application.  While it worked ok, the graphical interface to it, Tortoise SVN wasn't up the task and I ended up not liking subversion very much.   On a recent project we switched from Visual Source Safe to Subversion and Tortoise SVN as our ...

If you are building a system with a RAID disk make sure you have control over the serial number that windows uses to verify the install.  My file server with the 1.2TB disk had a bad disk the other day in replacing it I had to rebuild the array, this all went fine. But when logging back into windows I got kicked out with a message saying Windows ...