If you are seeing a message in Windows Vista saying "Your Windows license will expire in X days," it might be because you have a pre-release version of Vista SP1.

This is happening to people running activated copies of Windows Vista with a beta or release candidate version of Service Pack 1.  Uninstalling SP1 seems [...]

Joe Homnick has a great post explaining how he is using USB Flash drives for Virtual PCs in the classroom.  The flash memory in typical USB flash drives are fast for reading but notoriously slow for writing. Joe puts the virtual hard drive (VHD file) on the flash drive and puts the virtual machine configuration (VMC [...]

Peter Kellner has a post showing how to use LINQ to parse XML data exposed by your Tivo: http://peterkellner.net/2008/01/18/tivospaceviewerwithlinq/ As a recent Tivo convert, this is just too cool.

I was getting too much comment spam from KnowledgebasePublisher (aka KBPublisher) and decided to enable visual confirmation codes (captchas).  I run KnowledgebasePublisher on a Windows server with FastCGI. The captcha images were not appearing after I enabled the feature.  What I had to do was enable the GD2 extension in PHP.INI and restart IIS.

Hope that [...]

Mohammad Akif at Microsoft is running a webcast series for developers and IT pros interested in becoming architects.  Here are the upcoming events: June 16th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Introduction to the aspiring architect Web Cast series http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380836 June 17th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Services Oriented Architecture [...]