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Windows 7 Release Candidate Available For Download

Get it, while it’s hot! A fun sidenote, though: The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly … Continue reading

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PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again!

Windows Scripting used to be horrible. You got a lousy language to write in – Visual Basic (especially coming from C-like languages) – and it just didn’t seem all that powerfull. Any action you wanted done, required quite a few … Continue reading

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AVG Screws Up, Accidentally Deletes user32.dll System Library

Users who recently updated their AVG to the latest Virus Definitions, could find themselves in real trouble when rebooting their PC. Apparently, the latest definition automatically quarantines and deletes the file user32.dll, a Windows system library needed to successfully start … Continue reading

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Widgets, Gadgets, … You Can Keep’m!

Around the same time when “Web 2.0″ became (in)famous, there was also the uprising of widgets and gadgets. Meaningless clutter on your desktop/homepage, supposedly to give you “at-a-glance” information about subjects you like (the weather in a country thousands of … Continue reading

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Reading A .FLV File From Flash – Not Working Because Of Missing MIME Type

By default, reading a .FLV file from another flash-file doesn’t work because the MIME-type of the .FLV file is missing. You need to explicitly define this (ie: in IIS) to allow these files to be interpreted as flash-files. You can … Continue reading

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