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Entries from August 2008

Canucks go to Round 2!

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Roberto Luongo, Trevor Linden and the rest of the Canucks put in an outstanding 2nd and 3rd period to squeak out a 4-1 win against the Dallas Stars. This was really a 2-1 game as Pyatt and Smolinski potted a couple of empty net goals with about 90 seconds to go.
The Canucks finally found [...]

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Tags: Canucks · Hockey

Visual Studio 2005 on Vista Requires Admin Rights

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup.  The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:

To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS.  Though it is possible to [...]

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Tags: Development · Microsoft · Security

Lets Get Virtual!

April 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Several months ago I picked up a new machine, a MacBook, from which the bast majority of these blog posts have flowed. I absolutely love my MacBook and I can see myself becoming a regular Mac user with future computer purchases. That said, for about the past 15 years, I’ve been a devout Windows user. [...]

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Tags: Admin Tools · MacBook · Technology · Utilities · Virtualization

Apple Delays Leopard until October

April 12th, 2007 · No Comments

In a somewhat expected move, Apple announced today that their much anticipated next-generation OS will be delayed past the promised “Spring 2007” ship date. Speculation was that the new version of Mac OS X codenamed “Leopard” would be released during Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference in June. Ironically, this message is also the [...]

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Tags: Tech News · Technology

Want a Jersey? GoCanucks.ca

April 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Some crazy Canucks fans have put up a website to give away a Canucks’ Jersey for every Canucks’ win in the Playoffs.  The tradeoff?  A few product-centric emails from their sponsors.
Since all the emails should be coming from the guys that run the site (in this case a “friend of a friend”) I feel reasonably [...]

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Tags: Canucks · Hockey

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