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Ziggo: New speed

538414979[1] Finally I have received today the new Eurodocsis 3.0 modem from our ISP: Ziggo. My connection speed was upgraded for free. My new download speed is upgraded from 20Mb to 50Mb and my new upload speed from 3Mb to 5Mb. In the nearby future they will upgrade the speed to 80Mb and later on over the 100Mb.

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Posted by Mark on 12-08-2009 and Filed under: Ziggo
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Windows Vista: Run as different user

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A colleague was asking me how to run a program under a different account. My answer was to right-click on the shortcut and select the Run As . option in the context menu but unfortunately this behavior is only available on the Windows XP version and not under Windows Vista.

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Posted by Mark on 11-08-2009 and Filed under: Windows
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Outlook, Windows: Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

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I'm running Windows 7 x64 RC and Outlook 2007 but suddenly without any warning by starting Outlook i'm getting the following strange error message: "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outook window."

 

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Posted by Mark on 01-08-2009 and Filed under: Outlook, Windows
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BizTalk: Custom functoid in mapping return incorrect decimal

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I have encountered a very strange problem by using a custom functoid in a mapping which converts a float to decimal where the returned value is not a decimal at all. 

As value I was given the -4.9E-5 but when checking the returned value was -4.9E05 and not -0,000049 what i was expected. Why this happen i don't know but I found a solution.

 

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Posted by Mark on 29-07-2009 and Filed under: BizTalk
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.NET, Tools: Framework Configuration Tool (mscorcfg.msc)

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Microsoft has removed the .NET Framework Configuration Tool from the standard framework installations. They have decided to remove this tool from the control panel because the average end-user don't need this tool. But me as Developer this tool is a must have.

If you want to use this tool Microsoft has decided to make it part of the SDK version.

Because I'm not happy to install the whole SDK version only for this tool I have found a workaround with an setup.

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Posted by Mark on 29-07-2009 and Filed under: .NET, Tools
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