Tag: Misc

Mar 26, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’ve solved the problem with the printer shared via USB on a Windows XP box! I can now print to it from my Vista box. I found the solution at TechArena. You can find it here. Basically, you need …

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More Vista problems

Mar 25, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m trying to get Vista (on my laptop) to recognize a printer shared from my Windows XP desktop box. Unfortunately, it squacks… Telling me that I don’t have enough memory. Now, I …

Misc

Running .NET on WebSphere J2EE Servers

Mar 25, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m generally involved in the .NET space, but often work with companies that have both .NET and J2EE running in their enterprise. Because of our focus on Team Foundation Server (TFS) and VSTS …

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Outlook 2007 with Vista

Mar 24, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

During my recent upgrade, I moved to Vista and Outlook 2007. I have to say, I LOVE the Outlook 2007 UI. I’m much more productive, and it introduces some very, very nice features, like …

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Vista talking to our Windows Server 2003 VERY slow

Mar 24, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I recently “upgraded” to Vista on my laptop. Immediately, I noticed a few things that were very annoying… Primarily, it was the file transfer speed between my Vista box and our …

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Another good Google hack!

Mar 15, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

For some time, I’ve been sharing a neat hack that I came up with for finding files using Google. Here’s how it works: Assume you are looking for a specific file, such as northwind.mdb. If …

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Agile Tool - 3x5 Cards that both shuffle and stick

Mar 14, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a great tool for agile development that was mentioned in a blog post below. Go get a stack of these! Shuffle them, pass them around, put your use stories on them, and slap them …

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Microsoft recognizes Firefox browser in MSDN

Jan 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Wow! As I was downloading a file from MSDN that requires Genuine Windows, I was prompted to download the required tool. What was interesting was the prompt! They noticed I was using Firefox and even …

Misc Microsoft

Widgets Page Recommendations

Dec 14, 2006 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

We’re about to redo the Team System Widgets page, and are looking for any suggestions on improvements. Some things we’d like to add are comments on each widget, and an icon designating …

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