Date: 10/22/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

x-posted to my own journal, and another Windows community. If you guys have *any* idea what may have caused this, just so I can let my wife know and have a better idea myself... it would be appreciated. I'm primarily a Linux OS guy, and often going beyond basics and advanced stuff in Windows is a bit beyond me. Even one of my MS engineer friends was a bit stumped as to *what* caused this.

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How's this for insane? We had decided that my 512 RAM chip (same models, everything across the board as my wife's box, which always had worked, responded, even sounded flawless) should go to her to give her a full gig of RAM. The machine boots, but with no video, at all. Odd. Try swapping back the old 256 chip instead (the old PCs have only two slots on the board). Video, but... Windows failed to load because it can't find:

c:\windows\system32\config\system

Huh? WTF? We have no Windows media (or much anything right now) due to being technically in-move from one location to another so after getting blank CDs at Target, we get a Recovery Disk burned from an .iso found online. Sure enough, I can get in. But... her user is gone. The computer name is gone. Profiles, gone, and the entire system appears defaulted back to the OEM Windows installation. The main logon is passwordless and named "Owner" now, rather than my wife's name. The PC name is reset. All network settings, and all her personal data all still there in the folders for the user profile, however.

Gets better: the machine is "wobbly" now, in the words of our Microsoft engineer friend, who was utterly dumbfounded by what happened as I talked to him about it and worked on the system. Two vaguely plausible long shots: power surge as I powered down or up to install the new RAM, or "shite bad luck". He's very British. Any and all response to... anything on the system is very clippy and choppy now, regardless of what RAM is installed. Wife is in the process of backing up all her data to CD right now (1/2 way done so far).

Sunday I'm reinstalling Windows clean on her machine most likely.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/48421.html

Date: 10/23/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: microsoft

Hi ,
Sorry for double post ( cpp community) .
if anybody worked with wininet - you probably know what to do .
Help me, please !

I try to connect to the some server and to reseive some data .
All what I do - is standart windows HTTP commands (wininet .dll ):
1) internetOpen()
2)InternetConnect()
3)HttpOpenRequest()
4)HttpSendRequest()

HttpSendRequest function returns error "internet name not resolved" .
In is happens in case I connect to the internet InternetConnect() , and host name parametr
looks like name and not IP .
In case internet adress has look and feel of IP adress - HttpSendRequest ()
executes with NO error .

What can I do with that ? I MUST work with names !
Is it any way to convert the name to IP ?
HELP me , please.

P.S.
I work under
Microsoft eMbeded Visual c++

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/csharp/38961.html

Date: 10/25/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

The company is losing Microsoft Office development director Don Gagne, and MSN manager Hadi Partovi.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Key+executives+resign+from+Microsoft/2100-9588_22-5913543.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/26/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: microsoft

With VS 2005 coming out and the .Net 2.0 framework coming with it, I was wondering if anyone knows whether or not I'll be able to have VS 2003/1.1 and VS 2005/2.0 running on the same machine and not have to worry about compilation/compatibility issues. Basically I work at a MS shop that runs 1.1 framework stuff, and I wanted to do some experimenting/conversions to 2.0, but I don't want to if the multiple frameworks will cause problems with the IDEs and compiling. Has Microsoft commented on this or is it the "better to be safe (only 1 framework) than sorry" approach? Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/45719.html

Date: 10/27/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

A flurry of new products will ship in the coming months, some more than five years in the making. That's too long, Microsoft concedes.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft%27s+%27big+bang%27+could+be+its+last/2100-9593_22-5915900.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/28/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is implicitly agreeing with us that a certain set of freedoms allows creators and users of code to collaborate more closely to produce higher quality software.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=480&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/28/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

I wanted to manipulate dates in Microsoft Excel - the result is a sum of date, a fixed number of days and a variable no of day(s) from a second column. I couldn't find much documentation in Microsoft Excel to help me. So I thought this maybe useful to some of you. I essence I was trying [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/date-manipulation-in-microsoft-excel/

Date: 10/31/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

With Microsoft facing preliminary verdict of more than $500 million for alleged patent infringement, proceedings now continue before federal district judge.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Supreme+Court+won%27t+review+Microsoft+patent+appeal/2100-9588_22-5923978.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/31/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: sql, microsoft

Microsoft just released Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for MSDN subscribers to Download (universal ones at least)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/45932.html

Date: 10/31/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: software, microsoft

With rival Microsoft in mind, the search giant will hire people to work on the open-source software suite.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Google+throws+bodies+at+OpenOffice/2100-9593_22-5920762.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 11/01/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web, microsoft

Does anyone here use Textwrangler for making websites? Is there a way to download one for a PC (because I think this program is for Mac)? I am trying to finish an assignment at home, but I don't have Textwrangler. All I need are the tags which Textwrangler gives you when you create a new document. These tags are html beginning and end tags, head tags, as well as meta and something else, I think. I need these tags for my website to be validated by http://validator.w3.org

Whenever I try to use Notepad or Microsoft Frontpage to make a website, it never validates. There is always something wrong with the meta tags or encoding tags--things like that.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/2186005.html

Date: 11/02/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is moving toward a business model first pioneered in the mid-1990s by America Online.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=484&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog