I despise both the corner peeling ad (it seriously lags FireFox on this PC at least, although I will look into that NoFlash someone mentioned) and the double-underline things in...

Thanks for the tip, I never used the "Disconnected Edit" before.

Bah, these things always become clear a few minutes after posting for help...

Apparently, using a table variable in a stored procedure screws with DTS's ability to execute said stored procedure...

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it sounds like one of those wasteful "lets play with new technology" things to me. unless they are losing forklifts or can't determine how many trucks they have i...

a bit of an old thread but I came across this:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001814

MicroSoft is giving up on Private Folder 1.0 because people complained.

I misread that, sorry. He said "key escrow capability", meaning the local admin could set it up (I thought he was asking for MicroSoft to leave a backdoor by...

key escrow is the devil. ask bruce schneier:

"Key escrow also makes it harder for the good guys to secure the important stuff. All key-escrow systems require the existence of a...

If I were to die tomorrow I would regret having gone to work today

I feel that one should live their life in such...

I have a related question:

In a stored procedure, is it better to create and later drop a "normal" table, instead of using a temp table?

"Content" in reference to XML is defined as the elements and character data between an opening and closing tag. Comments and processing instructions are not included in this.

I'm not trying...

The <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> is not an element, it is a processing instruction which declares the file as XML of a certain version and encoding. Neither this nor any...

Wow now that is some bizarre behavior. I imagine they had their reasons...

if you read a bit of bruce schneier's website, you'll see that the problem is not the government's lack of enough data, but rather that they have too much data...

"Arrggggh! So we averted a religious war only to start a political one?"

sorry.

"I just want us to really think before posting such things about how GWB/Kerry/Clinton/Cheney/Google/Alito/CurrentPoliticalTarget is worse than...