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Digital SLR cameras and Sensor Dust: A Quick Summary
27 Sep 2007, 01:50:17 PM
What's the issue? Digital SLR cameras allow many advantages over less sophisticated cameras--they allow different lenses to be used, they are much faster, work much better in low light, and offer much more control over the details of photography. H ...
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Amusing Outlook 2007 Message
27 Sep 2007, 12:06:31 PM
I got this message the other day when trying to dismiss an Outlook calendar reminder: I'm not sure quite what I find funny about this, but here are some reasons: The four sentences are very short and staccato. It has an almost desperate quality-- ...
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Recurring meeting maintenance issue in Outlook 2007 and workaround
27 Sep 2007, 11:35:52 AM
As part of my job, I schedule and maintain a lot of recurring meetings. For example, my team meets every morning to have a 10-minute daily standup to ensure that the team knows what's going on and what it needs to do. In Outlook 2007, I find I can u ...
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Comparing the performance of various ways of getting an integer back from SQL Server
27 Sep 2007, 10:26:34 AM
Recently, I was talking with a developer who had structured their code in an unusual way; he had used SQL Server output parameters in a stored procedure to return row counts. The T-SQL code was a bit like this: create proc CountTallies @ItemId int, ...
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