I found a overview of international system unit prefixes [1]:

Factor  Name  Symbol  Origin               Derivation 
2^10    kibi  Ki      kilobinary: (2^10)^1 kilo:  (10^3)^1
2^20    mebi  Mi      megabinary: (2^10)^2 mega: (10^3)^2
2^30    gibi  Gi      gigabinary: (2^10)^3 giga:  (10^3)^3
2^40    tebi  Ti      terabinary: (2^10)^4 tera:  (10^3)^4
2^50    pebi  Pi      petabinary: (2^10)^5 peta:  (10^3)^5
2^60    exbi  Ei      exabinary:  (2^10)^6 exa:   (10^3)^6 

Examples and comparisons with SI prefixes
one kibibit   1 Kibit = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit
one kilobit   1 kbit  = 10^3 bit = 1000 bit
one mebibyte  1 MiB   = 2^20 B   = 1 048 576 B
one megabyte  1 MB    = 10^6 B   = 1 000 000 B
one gibibyte  1 GiB   = 2^30 B   = 1 073 741 824 B
one gigabyte  1 GB    = 10^9 B   = 1 000 000 000 B

[1]  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Trackbacks explained [1] in a non-technical way...

[1] http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/

Two weeks ago, I have seen a short presentation by a group presenting their work using a Office Research Service for Microsoft Office 2003. Willing to do this by my own, there is the Getting Started... article [1] to do so.

The Office Developer Center [2] may also be a good point to start with.

The Step-By-Step Guide [3] to build own shapes in Visio may helpful in anpther project I have planned.

[1] msdn.microsoft.com/office/...
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/
[3] msdn.microsoft.com/...

R [1] is an interactive, programmable and extendable tool for statistical computing and graphics.

[1] http://www.r-project.org/

Just to remember: Indigo download page [1] (RC1).
And the corresposnding "Longhorn" Devleoper Center [2] Indigo site.
The WinFX SDK [3] provides a lot more information, check out the sections Indigo and Samples.

After installing the Indigo RC1, I found the Digital Identities icon in my control panel. But does not seem to work, yet.

Arun Gupta has already experienced (more or less painful) how the GettingStarted example [4] works.
The updated WinFX (beta RC1) is available as iso image [5]. 

Because I am pretty sure, I will need this soon, here are some information about removing previous versions [6].

Anyway, using this installing order you finally can create Indigo services:

• IIS
• Visual Studio 2005 beta2
• Indigo and Acalon beta RC1
• WinFX SDK beta RC1

[1] microsoft.com/downloads
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/pillars/Indigo/default.aspx
[3] http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/
[4] http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2005/06/indigo_beta1_rc_1.html
[5] download.microsoft.com
[6] http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/

Ups, I've done it. It's fubar [1] now.

However it's possible to send an error report using the errorreport switch: csc *.cs /errorreport:prompt

Actually I found why the compiler screw up. I use a lot of plattform invokes and because I am lazy I use a constant with the library name.

private const string LIB = "MyNativeDll.dll";

[DllImport(LIB)]
//...

While changing the code, I removed the const modifier by accident, which causes the compiler to fail...

[1] dict.tu-chemnitz.de
[2] msdn.microsoft.com

If you write managed code using P/Invoke, sometimes you have to handle structures returnd by the called methodes. These MSDN articles about marshalling structures [1] and the StructLayoutAttribute class [2] should provide enought information to do so.

[1] msdn.microsoft.com
[2] msdn.microsoft.com

This table took me a few minutes, but will save me hours.

I found a blog entry written by the C# Team, about how to to update user interface from a thread that did not create it [1]? This blog about C# questions could be really awesome, but unfortunately the entries are once in a blue moon.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/17/91685.aspx
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/default.aspx

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