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Amazon has done it's thing and you can now order Windows based machinery based on
EC2. That's great news for us since we're definitly planning to make our software
also available on EC2.

Amazon has done it's thing and you can now order Windows based machinery based on

EC2. That's great news for us since we're definitly planning to make our software

also available on EC2.

In my case it's just partly do-it-yourself: Michael and Peter did the cable soldering
and I wrote the software that controls the serial interface to the PMR
sender/receiver.

My gateway is on PMR channel 5 with no CTCSS configured in the Campus area of the
TU-Ilmenau. A gateway is only just a PMR radio connected to a PC which is logged into
a Teamspeak server which is connected to several other gateways (citizen radio / PMR
/ ...)

So if you talk within the range of my gateway you'll be heard in more than 24 areas
across germany over PMR and citizen radio.

In my case it's just partly do-it-yourself: Michael and Peter did the cable soldering

and I wrote the software that controls the serial interface to the PMR

sender/receiver.

My gateway is on PMR channel 5 with no CTCSS configured in the Campus area of the

TU-Ilmenau. A gateway is only just a PMR radio connected to a PC which is logged into

a Teamspeak server which is connected to several other gateways (citizen radio / PMR

/ ...)

So if you talk within the range of my gateway you'll be heard in more than 24 areas

across germany over PMR and citizen radio.

In May 2005 I wrote about a wish I had for years:

"As usual I've got a very strange wish what nobody else seems to have on this

the machines to the speakers. And please loss-less and low latency!"

I happen to have this ginormous archive from a local newsserver - more than 14 gigabytes
of text and more than 8 years of history. Now this archive is a dump from the INN
NNTP server that was previously used. It's one folder per newsgroup and one file per
article.

So I now want to integrate that archive into my own new newsserver - so what I am
going to do is: Writing a small client application that can push all the articles
from the folders to the new newsserver via nntp procotol.

Since the NNTP protocol is trivial to code and to explain I won't reimplement it once
again - instead I am going to use Randy
Charles Morins nice article about accessing NNTP servers with C#:

I happen to have this ginormous archive from a local newsserver - more than 14 gigabytes

of text and more than 8 years of history. Now this archive is a dump from the INN

NNTP server that was previously used. It's one folder per newsgroup and one file per

article.

So I now want to integrate that archive into my own new newsserver - so what I am

going to do is: Writing a small client application that can push all the articles

from the folders to the new newsserver via nntp procotol.

Apparently someone had some time to kill:

"The other day I had this idea, what if I were to take all the concepts I write,

speak, and consult about and turn them into a

. That might help me explain how things like messaging, unit of work,

Or so I thought.

I started out with a blank piece of paper, and this is what happened:"

Apparently someone had some time to kill:

"The other day I had this idea, what if I were to take all the concepts I write,
speak, and consult about and turn them into a concept
map. That might help me explain how things like messaging, unit of work,
and exception management work together and why. It also shouldn’t be too much work.
Or so I thought.

Some days ago I wrote about a 10 minute hack of a tool I always wanted to have - now

I was using it quite often so I decided to upgrade it a bit - besides of the usual

bugfixing I added these features:

Some days ago I wrote about a 10 minute hack of a tool I always wanted to have - now
I was using it quite often so I decided to upgrade it a bit - besides of the usual
bugfixing I added these features:

I often have to share files with people - files which most of the time can be publically

accessible - the problem is though that it's far to much copy-n-paste involved to

get the file uploaded and the URL of the file put together. I just made my life a

bit easier and invested some minutes to write a small "DropBox" application that uses

a custom webservice hosted on one of my machines to upload, list and delete files

and to allow users that have the correct URL to download files.

I often have to share files with people - files which most of the time can be publically
accessible - the problem is though that it's far to much copy-n-paste involved to
get the file uploaded and the URL of the file put together. I just made my life a
bit easier and invested some minutes to write a small "DropBox" application that uses
a custom webservice hosted on one of my machines to upload, list and delete files
and to allow users that have the correct URL to download files.

Servicepack 1 for the .NET Framework 3.5 is coming out so there are many new features
and improvements... like this list of WCF Improvements:

If you're frequently debugging web traffic (http/https) you may want to take a look
at Fiddler:

"Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your
computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set
breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful
event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more."