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e-Record is a free tool offered by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to help small businesses keep records needed for tax reporting. It uses FileNet Desktop eForms application (now belongs to IBM), and it is terribly out of date (just like Windows XP). So what happens when you install it on Windows Vista or Windows [...]

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Like many others, I maintain a server that runs 24/7 and it’s connected to the internet. Yesterday I came home to a most unusual sight on my server’s status LEDs – unexplained network activity. It’s unusual because for me, my server is almost always idle. It doesn’t serve web pages, and in fact it doesn’t [...]

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The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a programming competition for students in higher education that involves solving a number of interesting problems (roughly 10) within 5 hours using C/C++ and/or Java. To enter, you must form a team of 3 people, and find a coach. If you ask around your computer engineering or [...]

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It’s been a while since I revisited the Google Wave sandbox after I first got access. At that time, it didn’t even render correctly in IE8, no matter which rendering mode I use (IE8, IE8 compatibility, IE7). It’s good to remember that Wave is not officially supported in IE8, just like how Silverlight is not [...]

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Just got this email announcing discontinuation of Popfly: I’m writing to thank you for registering and using Microsoft Popfly. I’ve been fortunate enough to see all the innovative mashups, Web pages, and games created by the Popfly community since we launched Popfly two years ago. It has truly been a pleasure to watch the spirit [...]

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