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I find that I keep forgetting what I have, so I thought I would keep a post up here with a list. Off, Galaxy W-2 Speed: 9, Control: 7, Ply: 7+2 FH: Dawei Inspirit Quattro , Max BH: 729 Focus 3 , Max AR+, Dawei Genote Quattro Limba FH: 729 FX , Max BH: Globe 999 Chinese Topsheet Def, Dawei Whizz (with...

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This is an example I saw today on Simple Talk : CREATE TABLE "╚╦╩╗" ( "└┬┴┐" nvarchar ( 10 )) DECLARE @ nvarchar ( 10 ) set @ = '═' INSERT INTO "╚╦╩╗" ( "└┬┴┐" ) SELECT replicate ( @ , 5 ) SELECT * FROM "╚╦╩╗"...

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Because it seemed effective last year, I am going to put my wants and desires online for all to see, I also going to try to break things up into context. Golf I have taken the sport of Golf pretty seriously over the past year or two and lets just say that I am not good enough to have my ball survive...

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I commonly have the situation in my Silverlight 3 Line-of-business (LOB) applications of having a screen with the left side being a EditableRootList (such as CustomerList) and the right side being the EditableRoot (such as Customer) that is being edited. As a note, you may want to use the “stretch”...

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I just came across this site: http://www.faqs.org/patents/inv/205753 and found it pretty cool that there is a list of my patents (my as in one of the inventors, not as in ownership).

There is a new report going around about Apple iPods going up in flames. The CPSC has received 35 confirmed reports of this happening. Some news stations are going to run 'special reports' on this information. I have a new proposed rule. Next to every statistic, you need to report your chance of being...

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Tell me this is not the best error message ever! ZombieCheck! System. InvalidOperationException Message: This SqlTransaction has completed; it is no longer usable. Stack Trace: at System.Data.SqlClient. SqlTransaction.ZombieCheck() at System.Data.SqlClient. SqlTransaction.Rollback() at MobilePro.Data...

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Ok, I am seeing this all the time and finding the solution in Google is next to impossible, so I am hoping this gets indexed high so others can find it in the future. If you try to change the property settings in the .TestRunConfig file in your project and you have any of the following product types...

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So I had this issue today where all emails that I wrote would be sent to the 'Drafts' folder instead of sending. I was also unable to recieve new emails as well. At first I thought this would be some kind of 'back pressure' issue and ignored it, but when it kept happening and the server still had 50GB...

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I saw this qoute online today at the Chicago Tribune : "Most people don't understand how hard it is to run 26.2 miles," said DePaul head track and cross-country coach Patrick Savage. I can personally tell you, running a marathon is not that hard. If you can run 3-4 miles straight, then you...

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