I personally find the article by Richard Grimes on the state of .NET technologies very informative. It is comical to note some of the rants against him in the post and in the comments at http://weblogs.asp.net/danielfe/archive/2005/02/22/378343.aspx

Some of it are plain hilarious like:

And really, let's face it, every programming language has a problem. Yes, .Net isn't the best, compared to the others, but it is pretty good, as in easy application development. Still, it's coming up.
For me, I hate Java, and that's my opinion. Unfortunately, it has a lot of technical advantage compared to .Net, so I MUST use it. I dreadful fate.

Some comments on his encrypting the email, and so he not a believable guy! It however never occured to him when he was writing those incredible articles and book on .NET technologies.

I really pity these guys.
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I went to download a script debugger from microsoft site. It told me that I can download it only if I allowed a program to verify that I am running genuine microsoft windows. I naturally allowed, wondering how it could verify it (using activex obviously) through firefox. In the next screen however I was offered an option to skip it and proceed to download directly!

What kind of joke is this?
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I recently faced the problem where my Windows machine would randomly shutdown. No warning, no messages!
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What's up with these mapping software? Even with good old trusted mapquest I used to see that it often comes up with really stupid directions. The example by Dmitri gives a direction for travelling 204 miles when the places are 30 miles apart and with good connectivity!

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I am amazed! Read the article for some reality check on Microsoft. If it can threaten governments where does little companies stand!
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My review on MSN Search elicited the following response from MSN Search's Weblog:

Angsuman Chakraborty thinks that we released the Beta too early. He also questions the veracity of our site descriptions. I want to respond to this by re-iterating that there is no human intervention in our Index; all results are based on our algorithms.

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I was quoted in ComputerWeekly article titled "C# goes head to head with Java" from my article on our .Net experience.

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I was just looking at the IE vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Firefox compiled by Secunia. Before going further you have to understand that IE has been much longer than Firefox and hence have been more extensively looked at for vulnerabilities.
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Contents

• NailGun Introduction
• Rationale for Porting
• Compiler choice: MinGW versus CygWin
• Mini Porting guide from Linux to Windows (networking focussed)
• Testing
• Code & Executable Download
• Suggestions for improving NailGun

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