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Muzzy Is Great
I’ve heard from somebody that Muzzy, the BBC foreign language program, is great. She bought it for her grandson for German learning. Unfortunately, at the time, there was no Chinese Muzzy program. Due to popular request, Muzzy finally got a Chinese program. I got it 2 weeks ago and it has been great. My son…
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Thoughts on Blog Writing
Ken talks about his experiment on blog writting and posting. I liked the way he shared his experience, the thought process behind it, and how he drew his conclusions. And kudos to Louis’ comments, especially on the personal touch to blogs. It seems that some blogs are like oven-baked bread. The raw materials, in the…
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Some of my book writing experience
Louis wrote his pain in book writing. I can feel his pain:) It reminded me of my experience during the writing of our SSIS book. Fellow co-authors Andy Leonard and Kathi Kellenberger also have some interesting blogs on their experience. Initially, I found 2 things very frustrating. They are all related to screen capturing: 1.…
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Sql Server 2005 Named Instance Stops Default Sql Server 2000 Default Instance
Last night I did some testing and installation of Sql Server 2005 and Sql Server 2000. I installed the RTM version of Sql Server 2000 as the default instance first. I then installed RTM version of Sql Server 2005. Afterwards, I noticed that I couldn’t connect to my Sql Server 2000 instance any more. I…
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Find out uptime of server and MySql database
This site had been unstable for the last couple of weeks, due to my hosting company’s issues with servers. My Apache and MySql database have both been moved to a different server. Hopefully things will be stable from now on. During the troubleshooting time, I used a few commands to find out the uptime of…