ToDoList 5.9 released

Here I am, once again, for my favourite todolist’s new release, version 5.9 .
Unfortunately it is some_months old, I simply lost it.
New features are:

• Added multi-column sorting
• Added option to recreate recurring task rather than reusing it
• Added preference to colour flagged tasks
• Added ‘Version’ to inheritable attributes
• Added ‘Set Reminder’ button to toolbar
• Preferences requiring admin privileges now show the shield icon in Vista
• Theme defaults to ‘blue’ for first time users
• Right-aligned dates if the option to display ‘Day of Week’ is set
• Made it possible to enter times as 9.45 or 9,45 for quarter to 10
• Fixed reminders to work with recurring tasks
• Improved performance of tasklist navigation. Now 2-3 times faster than 5.8
• Improved performance of date calendar navigation
• When tree/list does not have the focus the selection colour is faded out
• ‘Status’, ‘Version’ and ‘Alloc by’ filter droplists now support multi-selection
• Fixed bug where last open tasklist on USB drive was not being reloaded on starting ToDoList
• Fixed text and backgound colour comments toolbar buttons not updating as the selection changed
• Fixed iCalendar exporter to work with Outlook and Google Calendar
• Fixed various bugs in GanttProject exporter

source: ToDoList Resources

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NewSID … retired :(

On November 3 2009, Sysinternals retired NewSID, a utility that changes a computers machine Security Identifier [...]

The reason that I began considering NewSID for retirement is that, although people generally reported success with it on Windows Vista, I hadn’t fully tested it myself and I got occasional reports that some Windows component would fail after NewSID was used.
[...]

The New Best Practice

It’s a little surprising that the SID duplication issue has gone unquestioned for so long, but everyone has assumed that someone else knew exactly why it was a problem. To my chagrin, NewSID has never really done anything useful and there’s no reason to miss it now that it’s retired. Microsoft’s official policy on SID duplication will also now change and look for Sysprep to be updated in the future to skip SID generation as an option. Note that Sysprep resets other machine-specific state that, if duplicated, can cause problems for certain applications like Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), so Microsoft’s support policy will still require cloned systems to be made unique with Sysprep.

It is Mark Russinovich’s verb.

source: The Machine SID Duplication Myth

MSDN updated: new cover, new versions …

Lately, MSDN site upgraded to a new skin.

I realized that 2 brand new different versions have been pblished for everyone: lightweight, scriptfree.
Here are some sample, the ?? operator:

• CLASSIC interface
• LIGHTWEIGHT interface
• LOBAND (scriptfree) interface

Every interface has a proper menu to switch to others:

• Classic (window’s bottom right) 
  
• Lightweight (window’s bottom right)
  
• Scriptfree (window’s top right) 
  

I have been using lightweight version since this post by Raffaele Rialdi.

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Well, it is … it: Visual Studio 2008 + MSDN Premium

Well, it is … it!!!  :)

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition + MSDN Premium subscription (1 year subscription)
I’m so happy … I hope I will not spend late night minutes still free.

Thanks to: Lorenzo Barbieri, Andrea Boschin, Andrea Dottor, Davide Vernole, and … last but not least … the whole Xedotnet community.
(strictly alpha order )

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Free Book from Microsoft: “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008”

A brand new free ebook by Microsoft: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Peter DeBetta, Greg Low, and Mark Whitehorn (ISBN: 9780735625587).

I’m going do download it asap.
Would you like it too?  click here

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