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Gender-relevant search? On Saturday a Bloomberg news item reported that Microsoft Research is working on enabling search technologies to determine the gender of the person doing a search... Mitch Tulloch

Score 1 for iTunes AAC! Here’s a happy surprise: When you burn an iTunes podcast file to CD, iTunes converts the chapters into CD tracks. Plus—a simple AppleScript that lets you jump to the exact second you want to hear in a long audio file. David Battino

Managing File Servers Windows Server 2003 "R2" has some terrific enhancements for deploying and managing file servers in the enterprise... Mitch Tulloch

Dot Net Rock TV The Dot Net Rocks team goes one step further and enters the Video Podcasting arena. Frank La Vigne, Frank La Vigne

Windows Has Fewer Security Holes than Linux The conventional wisdom holds that Windows is a security sieve, while Linux is locked down tight. Then why does Linux have three times the number of security holes as Windows? Preston Gralla

Two more bugs found in WMF So "cocoruder" finds two more bugs in Microsoft's WMF engine and publishes info about it on XFocus... Mitch Tulloch

On buying a laptop Advice for my niece on buying a laptop for college Jonathan Gennick

No AOL for MS I was relieved when I heard that Google beat out Microsoft in acquiring AOL from Time Warner... Mitch Tulloch

Wanna Join the Collective? Is working for Microsoft really like becoming part of the Borg collective? Mitch Tulloch

Ohio SMS Users Group Winter Quarterly Meeting - February 1st, 9:30am - 4:00pm The Ohio SMS (Systems Management Server) Users Group Winter Quarterly Meeting February 1st 2005 in Columbus, Ohio. Greg Ramsey

Vista Gets Real I've just installed the latest Vista build, and I'm pleased to report that it's finally real. Builds up until now have been flaky, and to a great extent not particularly functional. But this one is the real McCoy. Preston Gralla

"Windows Live!, as..."? I a recent post to his personal blog Dare Obasanjo took the liberty to add a '!' to the end of Windows Live. In checking the Windows Live site to make sure I was correct in my assumption... there is no '!' at the end of the Windows Live logo... at least not yet. This is pure speculation and meant only in fun... I have no insider information nor am I stating with absolute certainty that my conclusion are an absolute. This is just meant in fun... If it turns out to be true, it will have been by total accident. That said... here's my interpretation of what COULD be one of MANY possibilities... M. David Peterson

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IPSec management tools are not particularly intuitive in XP. But things are going to be better in Vista. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, takes a look at IPSec support in Vista, and clues you in on what you can expect.

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Today's web application is customizable in ways that could only have been dreamed of five years ago, partially because of Web Parts. Jesse Liberty shows how they work by guiding you through building a simple application in ASP.NET. Jesse is the author of Programming ASP.NET, Third Edition.

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Unit testing is one of the tasks that every programmer worth their salt needs to do. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use the new Unit Testing feature of Visual Studio 2005 Team System to auto-generate the code needed to test your application.

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One of Jesse Liberty's clients has a problem: she has a database with 2 million records and wants to display these records in a data grid, but does not want to load them all into memory from the database. She wants them loaded "just in time." Jesse shows how to use the new DataGridView to neatly solve the problem.

In Part 1 of this series, Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, showed you how to identify which basic server services are essential, and which can be turned off. In this second part, he shows you additional services for servers configured with specific roles.

Virtualization lets you have multiple "virtual machines," each with its own operating system running in a sandbox, shielded from each other, all in one physical machine. But why would you want to do this? Wei-Meng Lee explains, and takes you on a tour of some of the most popular virtualization software available: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, VMware Workstation 5.0, and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.

An important part of hardening Windows servers against attack is disabling any unnecessary services on your machines. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, shows you how to identify which services are essential, and which can be turned off.

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