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A number of noteworthy items related to women in the .NET development community crossed my radar this week and I thought I would set them down in one place. (Read more…)
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Susan Lennon picks me up in her BMW Z4 to speak at WeProgram.NET in Virginia Beach! Zoooom! (read more…)
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When someone told me that the AGP interface for plug in cards for my PC was “like pci but better” I made the assumption that it would plug into my PCI port. Dumb me. After 20+ years with computers, I should know better.
AGP is different from the ground up and requires it’s own interface on the motherboard.
PCIe (PCI Express) is also different and is even newer than AGP.
These two are mostly for the high intensity graphics that are used in gaming.
PCI-X is not another way of saying “PCI Express”. It’s totally different and was an enhancement to PCI.
My Dell 170LN does not take AGP or PCIe. I was lucky to find a dual DVI card that can plug into my PCI slot. It took me a long time to find it because when I saw pictures of this one, I passed it by. It only has one port to plug a cable into. However, it is designed to sort out sending signals to multi-monitors. You only need a special Y cable to plug the two in.
So if you are stuck with “Conventional PCI” but want to use dual digital monitors the thing to get is an NVIDIA Quadro4 VNS 280 PCI card. This is made by PNY and also HP. You also need a separate Y cable. Be careful because you can get Y cables that have one VGA and one DVI or one that has two VGAs or one that has 2 DVIs.
I did an experiment a few months ago by putting some google ads on my blog. I was just curious what would happen. I replaced one of them after Katrina with a more worthy cause than my own, but left the others there. I have basically forgotten about them until I had a nice email from DonXML with some suggestions about how I could make the ads more effective.
This reminded me to go check my earnings. Here’s where they stand:
You can’t collect on this until you reach a certain amount (is it $50? I forget). Maybe sometime next year, I’ll collect the $50 and donate it to a local Vermont charity. I get free hosting from Alentus (thanks Alentus) so I have no real need for the adsense anyway.
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Congrats to Scott Hansleman and his wife Mo on the birth of their new baby boy, Zenzo.
And to Keith Pleas for gettin’ hitched! This was one guy who had “bachelor” stamped on his forehead. Yay Jenny!
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MSN Virtual Earth will be renamed Windows Live Local. I guess that it won’t be confused with Google Earth’s name that way ;-). There have also been some enhancements as reported by the Kelsey Group by way of Dare – better driving directions, Birds Eye imagery and user pushpins are among these.
Hmmm no word about ink though…nobody from Microsoft has ever asked me how I did it.
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Vermont Technical College is looking for a full-time tenured track position in the Information Services and Technology department. We also have several part-time teaching positions at the Blair Park campus in Williston and at the Randolph campus. Please contact Brent Sargent, Dean of Williston Campus & Northwest Region, VTC, 201 Lawrence Place, Williston, VT 05495. Phone 879-2321, email bsargent@vtc.edu.
Note from Julie: Vermont Tech is an incredibly fast growing school and is where Vermont.NET currently has it’s meetings. It’s also right across from a Starbuck’s ;-)!
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Matt Cassell will be interviewing me for his new Academic .NET Radio podcasts and we’ll be doing it over Skype. Ok, I guess it’s time for me to take the VOIP plunge! [Read more…]
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I’m very excited to be speaking at WeProgram.NET tomorrow night in Virginia Beach. It will be my first presentation as an INETA speaker! Thanks to u.g. leader Darrell Norton and Hampton Rds SQL Server group leader Susan Lennon for bringing me down.
I’ll be trimming down my now very long "what’s new in ado.net 2.0" presentation and focusing on ADO.NET 2.0 Integration with SQL Server 2005. Inspired by Pablo Castro’s teched session (which I used in Africa), I have added some new touches to it. I learned how to work with XML Data types and some of the CLR integration in SQL Server. So I’ll get to show some of that as well.
I’m already in Virginia Beach as this allowed me to visit my brother and his family for the first time since they moved here. It was nice to have a beautiful walk on the beach yesterday. That has been one of the things that has bummed me out each time I have been in L.A. and San Diego over the last few years. No chance to get to the ocean.
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