Monthly Archives: October 2007

SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Cannot Connect to a SQL Server 2008 Server

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Not that this is any big surprise, but if you try to connect to a SQL Server 2008 server from a SQL Server 2005 version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), it will not work. You will get the dialog … Continue reading →

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Battlestar Galactica Season 4

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Glenn Berry

SciFi Channel has released a promo trailer for season 4 of Battlestar Galactica (which starts in January). BSG is my favorite show, but unfortunately, season 4 will be the last season. It is not being canceled due to low ratings … Continue reading →

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Please Put Numbers on your Y-Axis

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Those are the words of Brad Feld, one of NewsGator’s first investors, to prospective entrepreneurs who are pitching their ideas to venture capitalists. Fortunately for us, he overlooked that rule when Greg Reinacker (our founder and CTO) pitched to him … Continue reading →

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Packers Losing to Chicago

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Glenn Berry

My co-worker Nick Harris will be very sad tomorrow, since it looks like the Chicago Bears are going to beat the Green Bay Packers. He is a huge Green Bay fan and Wisconsin native. Of course, we won’t talk about … Continue reading →

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New SQL Server 2008 Home Page on TechNet

Posted on October 6, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has put a new homepage on TechNet for SQL Server 2008. The Product page is here. Microsoft has announced, and publicly confirmed repeatedly that SQL Server 2008 will RTM in the first half of 2008. From what I have seen, … Continue reading →

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Great Firewall of China

Posted on October 6, 2007 by Glenn Berry

I have seen additional reports from various sources claiming that China’s Public Security Bureau (PSB) is attempting to block RSS feeds. Ars Technica has a story about all of this here. According to that story, consumers in China have been … Continue reading →

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China Blocking RSS Feeds

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Both Boing Boing and TechCrunch have stories up this morning about how the mainland Chinese government is now attempting to block all RSS feeds.  This seems like a very short-sighted effort on the part of the Chinese Government. Knowledge is … Continue reading →

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Great Deal On 30GB Microsoft Zune from Woot!

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Gizmodo turned me on to a sweet deal on a refurbished 30GB Black Zune from Woot! for $99.00 (plus $5.00 shipping and no sales tax).  Since Microsoft did the smart thing and will let all of the 2nd generation Zune … Continue reading →

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More Intel Chip News

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Digitimes has a story about more Intel 45nm Quad-Core Xeon processors being added to their two socket server lineup. Intel added the new high-end X5472 with a 1600MHz FSB and the X5450 with a 1333MHz FSB to its 45nm server lineup. Both … Continue reading →

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.NET Framework Source Code to be Released

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Glenn Berry

meraTechPort has news that Microsoft will be releasing a portion (for most of the base class libraries) of the .NET 3.5 Framework with Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has more detail here.  There will be integrated debugging support for … Continue reading →

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