It usually takes ages until I find the page with the format strings on MSDN. So here's a short note, not to forget it.

C or c Currency
D or d Decimal
E or e Scientific (exponential)
F or f Fixed-point
G or g General
N or n Number
P or p Percent
R or r Round-trip
X or x Hexadecimal

[1] msdn.microsoft.com

Sequoia View is still a great software to visualize your harddisks usage and find big files or directories with many small files. The usage of Cushion Treemaps makes this special look and feel. At the homepage choose Tips & Trix to find some information how to enable right-clicking folders to start Sequoia View. Since harddisks became larger, the tool needs amlost 10 minutes to check my 60G system disk the first time. I remember the first time I used the tool on a 2G disk, it just needed a few seconds.

[1] http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

Google Earth [1], is a nice application, using DirectX and Google Maps [2]. So I was looking for Microsoft Research in Cambridge [3], UK.

You can really waste a lot of time, scrolling around and looking all the nice places. Beside this I found the German headquarter of Microsoft Deutschland GmbH [4], too.

[1] http://earth.google.com/products.html
[2] http://maps.google.com/
[3] http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/cambridge/default.aspx
[4] http://www.microsoft.de/

I just found the link to this 80x15 button maker [1] on schrankmonster. And I really like its output:

[1] http://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php

Today I got the hint to take a deeper look into the AD. Surprisingly I found the following entry in the Active Directory Schema [1]:

Sounds like a joke, doesn't it? If you have a look into RFC 1274 [2] search for section 9.3.5. There you will find

9.3.5.  Favourite Drink

   The Favourite Drink attribute type specifies the favourite drink of
   an object (or person).

     favouriteDrink ATTRIBUTE
         WITH ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX
             caseIgnoreStringSyntax
             (SIZE (1 .. ub-favourite-drink))
     ::= {pilotAttributeType 5}

Seems like it is no joke at all...

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_drink.asp
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1274.txt?number=1274

Because I needed this for a demo CD: just some information how to build autorun.inf files [1].

[1] http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm

I was looking for a tool which is able to convert mov into avi. Looks like RADTools [1] can do this.

[1] http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

Sometimes you think: "What the heck... where is this process from?". This list with Windows processes [1] helps to identify processes listet in the Task Manager.

[1] http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

While indexing of network locations works fine with the MSN Desktop Search [1], there is an anoying issue with the index file. The Desktop Search allows you to choose the location where to put its index file.

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I have done so. Because I like to store all my files on a server, I have choosen a folder within my 'My Documents' Folder, which is located on a network share. Right after this, Desktop Search moves its index to the new location. After that it says that something is not ok with the index file. Because of this problem, the dialog above is disabled. Even the button 'Restore Defaults' is disabled. To restore the defaults I had to reinstall the Desktop Search. Which in fact is really anoying.

[1] http://desktop.msn.com/

An elite keyboard [1] for real coders. A MUST have.

[1] http://www.daskeyboard.com/