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November 2006 - Posts

• My Coding Font and Colors

  The subject often resurfaces amongst developers: What does your IDE look like? What font do you use? What color scheme? How do you format your code? Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood started showing how their IDE look like, and I thought I'd join the club. Read More... Posted Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:48 PM by slimcode | 11 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Burnt Windows Proof of License sticker - The conclusion

  Fellow commenter JMC pointed me to this Microsoft article , where they explain what the old and new Windows Certificate of Authenticity stickers should look like. If you click on "More information" under " Preinstalled Windows COAs ", you'll see a pop-up Read More... Posted Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:23 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Dell Laptop burnt sticker - Made like that says Dell!

  If you remember my previous post about the state in which I found my Windows XP Pro sticker on the bottom of my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop, I now have an official answer from Dell. I just called them about it, pointed them to the picture on my blog and Read More... Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:11 PM by slimcode | 5 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Spam using captcha techniques

  I had a funny surprise this morning in my inbox. A spam email, one more, got passed the (very disappointing) Outlook Junk Email Filter. I expect such emails to be common, since I'm not using a serious email filter, but this one caught my attention. It Read More... Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:35 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical