Too bad they're $249,-, which makes them a bit expensive for only 4 gb of drivespace, compared to the 15gb version (but those are a lot bigger). When you compare them to other players in the same price range using Flash memory (Rio Chiba), they become a lot more competitive.

mini iPod and iPod specs compared.

Arstechnica has an indepth review of servicepack 2 for Windows XP, due out this summer. They seem to like it, I know I do .

And according to CRN the first Office 2003 servicepack is scheduled for release in May.

I think this is a great film and cannot understand, why this hasn't been released here, in the Netherlands.

Read more about Lost in Translation at imdb. Better yet, read the review at CHUD.

Although I hate new years resolutions, I'm gonna try and keep this one; blog more regularly (after I'm done with my exams, around January 23th).

Pathping.exe

Usage: pathping [-g host-list] [-h maximum_hops] [-i address] [-n]
                [-p period] [-q num_queries] [-w timeout]
                [-4] [-6] target_name

Options:
    -g host-list     Loose source route along host-list.
    -h maximum_hops  Maximum number of hops to search for target.
    -i address       Use the specified source address.
    -n               Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
    -p period        Wait period milliseconds between pings.
    -q num_queries   Number of queries per hop.
    -w timeout       Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply.
    -4               Force using IPv4.
    -6               Force using IPv6.

Currently only the English version is available, but other versions should appear soon. Biggest improvement would be support for Windows 2003 server, Exchange 2003 and Office 2003; combined with SBS 2003, CRM seems a very powerfull and affordable solution.

MSDN subscriber downloads

EricGu has an interesting post about method overloading and type-conversions, highly recommended.

Register here for the launch webcast of SQL Reporting services, which is a great product for automagically creating and distributing all your managment pr0n.

source: jim blizzard

Udi Dahan is a big fan of paper prototyping with the client/user, which in my opinion can be a great starting point for design and certainly should be used to verify the design before the actual development starts.

Fabrice has a cool code sample, but I doubt I'll ever see something like it in production code.