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Well, I am reading Programing Windows with MFC, and I came across Unicode and ASCII code characters. I understood the point of using Unicode over ASCII, but what I do not get is how and why is it important to use 8bit/16bit/32bit character? What good does it do to the system? How does the processing…
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I created several documents in MS Office Publisher 2007 when I was using Windows Vista 32 bit version. I've recently upgraded to the 64 bit version of Vista and am now having trouble opening the files created on the previous Windows setup.
When I try to open my documents, I get this warning:
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I have 60 Gb of RAM on server. Windows 2008, 32bit with PAE.
One Sql Server 2008 Express Instance can use 1 Gb of RAM.
So if I install 60 instances, each can use 1 Gb of RAM, right?
And the second question, what will be if I install 64bit system and use many Express instances?
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I have 60 Gb of RAM on server. Windows 2008, 32bit with PAE.
One Sql Server 2008 Express Instance can use 1 Gb of RAM.
So if I install 60 instances, each can use 1 Gb of RAM, right?
And the second question, what will be if I install 64bit system and use many Express instances?
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I have an old NPAPI plugin for OS X that I'm trying to refit for use with Snow Leopard's version of Safari. My problem is that when I switch Safari to 64-bit mode, it changes the plugin environment to out of process mode (where plugins are hosted by a 32-bit WebKitPluginHost process). And now my toolbar…
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The goal of this blog post is to give you a brief introduction to Meteor which is a framework for building Single Page Apps. In this blog entry, I provide a walkthrough of building a simple Movie database app.
What is special about Meteor? Meteor has two jaw-dropping features:
Live HTML – If you make…
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A few days ago, I gave a talk on building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. In that talk, I recommended that people use Knockout, Sammy, and RequireJS to build their presentation layer and use the ASP.NET Web API to expose data from their server.
After I gave the talk, several people contacted…
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Hello,
First time posting here, but an avid reader.
I am experiancing slow query times on my database (all tested locally thus far) and not sure how to go about it. The database itself has 44 tables and some of them tables have over 1 Million records (mainly the movies, actresses and actors tables)…
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This blog post will show you step by step to refactoring some code to be more readable (at least what I think). Patrik Löwnedahl gave me some of the ideas when we where talking about making code much cleaner. The following is an simple application that will have a list of movies (Normal and Transfer)…
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The Star Wars film franchise has had an enormous impact on the world of film, gaming, and special effects. Check out this interesting infographic to see how Star Wars has impacted the world.
Created by Michelle Devereau, the “How Star Wars Changed the World” infographic is a massive…
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If you like your movie posters to look a little more like Pac-Man and a little less like polished photography then this roundup of 8-bit movie posters is for you. 
