DOS Special Characters

DDB: DOS Characters: "A Short Discussion of DOS Symbols"

MrDee buys Google

MrDeeoogle

Useful resource - Impossible to find on MSDN

Windows Environment Variables
DOS Commands A-M
DOS Commands N-Z

Warning: the GUI is for the seriously art challenged! Orange text on black - seriously ugly.

SQL 2005 Performance

Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005

Awesome database resource from Barry Williams

450+ free Kick-Start Databases

80's geek humour

ThinkGeek :: Kitt is a Cylon

Others are afraid to say it but we know the truth. If it's got a sweeping red eye, it's not to be trusted.

Cloning Ron Jacobs

ARCast NZ #1

"How to convince management that letting a Developer become an Architect is a good idea".

great to hear a kiwi accent on a global issue.

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List of fictitious company names used by Microsoft

1,000,000,000,000 is a big number

Chip can do a trillion calculations a second

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, has created a test processor capable of performing a trillion calculations a second, billing the thumbnail-sized chip as the first of its kind.

Ten years ago, the same task would have required 10,000 processors in a 186 sq m computer room, said Intel chief technical officer Justin Rattner.

The device, which isn't for sale, would help Intel test new technologies destined for its mainstream processors in the next five years, Rattner said.

The new chip featured 20 times the processors built into current production models, the type of leap needed to speed technological improvements.

The chip might help Intel play a part in developing products such as cars that know when there's a pedestrian in the road and stop automatically, Rattner said. The test chip has 80 cores.

Code Warning - SQL 2005 mail

-- Create a Database Mail account

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_account_sp
@account_name = 'Infinity Public Account',
@description = 'Mail account for use by all database users.',
@email_address = 'db_users@Infinity.co.nz',
@replyto_address = 'Andrew.Dixon@Infinity.co.nz',
@display_name = 'Infinity Automated Mailer',
@mailserver_name = 'SMTP.Infinity.Co.NZ' ;

-- Create a Database Mail profile

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profile_sp
@profile_name = 'Infinity Public Profile',
@description = 'Profile used for administrative mail.' ;

-- Add the account to the profile

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp
@profile_name = 'Infinity Public Profile',
@account_name = 'Infinity Public Account',
@sequence_number = 1 ;

-- Grant access to the profile to all users in the msdb database

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_principalprofile_sp
@profile_name = 'Infinity Public Profile',
@principal_name = 'public',
@is_default = 1 ;

-- Send the mail

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'Infinity Public Profile'
, @recipients = 'Andrew.Dixon@Infinity.co.nz'
, @body = 'The stored procedure finished successfully.'
, @subject = 'Automated Success Message'
, @Query = "SELECT * FROM Customers"
, @attach_query_result_as_file = 1
, @query_attachment_filename = 'Customers.txt'
;

-- Check the mail

select * from sysmail_faileditems
select * from sysmail_sentitems
select * from sysmail_unsentitems

NoCowboys

Have you ever needed a builder, plumber or mechanic and not known where to look?

Sooner or later everyone needs assistance from a skilled tradesperson. But how do you find the right person? You could search the phone book, a newspaper or the internet, but there's really no way of knowing who you can trust. If you're like most you'll call the folks with the nicest-looking advertisement, cross your fingers and hope for the best. Will they show up on time? Will they do a good job? Will they be honest with you? Will they charge fairly?

The truth is, you have no way of knowing. Unless you have a personal recommendation, it's impossible to tell how reliable, honest or fair any tradesperson might be.

Music shop staff will like this.

Search with your Voice

Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone.

Vista Pros and Cons

10 reasons you should upgrade to Vista (and 10 reasons you shouldn't):

Vista Upgrade Checklist

10 things you should do before installing Windows Vista on a computer:

I would like to thank the Academy

The Winner of the 355ml Visio diagram competition!

is.... ME!!

Cooking for Engineers

Cooking for Engineers

Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!

Visibone does it again

Visibone Country Chart

The world's first map of internet country codes.
Phone codes too, alphabetic and numeric lists.

There is a space on my desk for this.

The Device

Myriad uses, limitless configuration potential. Monitor any or all of the following - and more!

Radioactive Decay Rates • Electrotherapeutic Shock Intensity
Ebay Auction Status • Stock and Bond Values • Seismic Activity
CPU Usage • Audio VU Meter Levels • Counter Strike Frags
Daily Commute Time • National Security Threat Level
Network Traffic or Website Hit Counts • The Current GDP of Uzbekistan
3D Render Progress • Cooking Time for your Thanksgiving Turkey
Days (or Hours!) until your Secret Plans come to Fruition

I knew Thunderbirds was forward thinking...

New tech knocks out digital cameras

The technology they've devised detects the presence of a digital camera up to 33 feet away and can then shoot a targeted beam of light at the lens

Love someone? tell them your password.

Taking passwords to the grave

Attorneys advising clients on estate planning should ask them to determine who they want to have access to their computers when they die, Rotenberg said.

Airline security gone mad.

When is a rock not a rock?

When you pass through airport security. Then it becomes a potential weapon, one capable of bringing an airplane down.

Are you there Eliza? My e-mail is broken.

Got A Question? Microsoft's Newly Acquired Software May Have The Answers

Colloquis' technology lets Web users type free-form questions into a text box, and receive conversational answers via artificial intelligence technology known as natural language processing. The technique parses typed-in sentences to identify their subjects and other parts of speech, then assigns levels of importance to certain words. "The best example I can give is if sometime types in, 'My E-mail sucks', the natural language processing agent is able to understand that," says Clinton Dickey, a group product manager at Microsoft who worked on the deal. "It's about replicating live agents."

New Look Blog

I have moved over the the Blogger Beta.
cleaner design
fewer widgets - some of these might reappear.
watch this space.

IYKWIM

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