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Microsoft issues 10 security bulletins, seven critical
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U.S. seeks to stop a brazen spyware operation
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Microsoft's instant messaging service down briefly
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The differences between CONVERT and CAST in SQL Server
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A common XML message-passing architecture to tie systems together
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IIS 101
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The Missing Link: This is my son @ and my grandson @ Jr.
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Microsoft issues 10 security bulletins, seven critical
[SearchWindowsSecurity.com]
Windows shops have 10 Microsoft security updates to sift through for October, covering fixes for a wide range of products.
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U.S. seeks to stop a brazen spyware operation
[Associated Press]
In what the U.S. Federal Trade Commission called the ultimate in "online chutzpah," a group selling antispyware under the Spy Wiper and Spy Deleter labels actually loaded spyware onto unsuspecting users' computers. The FTC has gone to court to try to halt the group's activities.
Microsoft's instant messaging service down briefly
[Reuters]
A glitch during a scheduled maintenance period brought down Microsoft's MSN Messenger Service for a brief period earlier this week, the software maker said. The IM service has 187 million users, including enterprise users.
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The differences between CONVERT and CAST in SQL Server
SQL Server programmers can choose between two functions in SQL Server 7 and 2000 for converting expressions from one type to another. In many cases there will be a need within a stored procedure or other routine to convert data from, say, a datetime type to a varchar type; CONVERT and CAST are used for such things.
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This is my son @ and my grandson @ Jr.
[Ananova]
This makes that whole Prince thing look alarmingly normal. According to the Beijing Morning Post, a man in central China wanted to name his newborn son "@." Not "#" or "&" or even "/" but "@." Not exactly your standard Chinese character. The man said that the @ symbol is so common thanks to e-mail that it would make an uncommonly good name for his newborn. But province officials named the @ppellation unacceptable, and
claimed that Chinese law requires that all names be translatable into Mandarin. So for now, you can just call the kid "The boy formerly known as @."
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