Decent quick high level view of Plasma TVs vs LCD. Not sure how long this page will live on the VOOM site, but here it is anyway...

VOOM : HD Resource Center : Beyond HDTV Newsletters : Which is better, plasma or LCD?

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Thanks to buddy Marchello for showing me this site. Oh...but I'm not doing Win32 programming any longer - it's all .NET baby !! :)

SmidgeonSoft - Home Of Quality Utilities That Are Free!

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Pretty cool script (I think using WMI query syntax) to enumerate processes.

For Each Process in
GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//rogue").ExecQuery
("select * from Win32_Process where Name='notepad.exe' ")
Process.Shutdown (0)
Next

Google Groups : microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support



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Look through here for some decent hacks...

how-to: ‘usb battery’ v2 - hack a day - www.hackaday.com

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Some early info on XBox 2 from Game Developers Conference (GDC)

GDC goodness


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Chris Sells shows us how to add custom project items to the "Add New Item" dialog.

keywords: wizard vswizard CSharpProjectItems IDTWizard

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Thanks to Miles and DanCo at work for these pointers.

DVD Shrink

Some discussion of the Arccos copy protection scheme from Sony, including list of known DVDs using this, along with DVD95Copy info which gets around the issue.



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Shows number of lines in use for countries in the world, graphical display.

Also, bandwidth simulator, showing how a page would load through a given connection speed.

ICTP Digital Divide Simulator


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