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MSN Video Download  apparently went live today with a choice of two membership types  Premium and Basic.  Premium is $19.95 a year and has more content than the free Basic membership.  Not wanting to commit myself to a membership yet I signed up for the Basic membership, thinking I could load some videos on to the miniSD card in my smartphone....

Sign up was easy, I used my passport account, agreed to the terms and installed the download software.  The download status page showed content was downloading from Fox Sports.  In order to sync content to my phone I needed a smart playlist so I followed the instructions to download one.  This was the first problem, the instructions used Windows Media Player 9 and I'm using Windows Media Player 10, a little strange, but not a huge problem.  With the smart playlist in place I thought I'd be good to go...

That wasn't going to be the case though.  I started by trying to play a video in Media Player directly and got prompted for a username and password which was being requested by 'admin.theplatform.com' not 'msnvideodownloads.com'.  I tried my Passport email address and password which might not have been a great idea, but it didn't work anyway.  Meanwhile I could see that Activesync had been trying to sync the content to my phone so I checked the Sync page in WMP.  Nothing had been synced, instead  there was an error message 'Windows Media Player can not synchronize the protected file.  Protected files can not be converted to the required quality level or format'.

Now I have almost half a gigabyte of content (and it's still getting downloaded) and I can't watch any of it.  If anyone gets this working I'd love to know how.

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Upgrading to Mandrake 10

Last night I decided to upgrade my home Linux box, which was running Mandrake 9.2, to the newly-released Mandrake 10.

I run Mandrake at home, and until recently, on my work machine, too.  Now at work I run Red Hat 9, but only because we use ClearCase (don't get me started) as our version control software, and it patches into the kernel, and only supports Red Hat.  So I was forced (kicking and screaming) to switch to Red Hat at work.

Now, this is just my personal opinion, and I'm sure I'll get flak for it, but Mandrake beats Red Hat for ease-of-installation and use.  Not by a whole lot, but enough that I perfer Mandrake.  My upgrade to Mandrake 10 is a good example of what I'm talking about.

Mandrake has not yet released the ISO files of the 'official' version of Mandrake 10, as they want their preferred (read that, paying) customers to be able to get it first.  But you can get 'official' Mandrake 10 if you are willing to follow a few simple steps.

• First, find a Mandrake mirror site.  I used raven.cslab.vt.edu. 
• Using any modern browser that lets you access an ftp site, go to the directory containing the official Mandrake 10 release, which on that site was '/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586'.  Then go into the 'images' subdirectory.
• Download 'boot.iso', and burn it to a CD.
• Using your existing Mandrake 9.2 installation, write down the following information: system name, system domain, system IP address, DNS IP address, gateway IP address (if you use a gateway to access the internet)
• Insert the CD you just burned, and reboot your system so that it boots from the CD
• A Mandrake 10 special boot loader will come up.  It will ask you for the info I had you write down, including the location of the ftp site and the directory for the Mandrake 10 source.  Use the raven site from above.
• If you have broadband, it will spend almost 3 hours downloading Mandrake 10.  If you are on a dial-up, this may take all night.  Fire up your Windoze game machine and play 'Splinter Cell' for a while.
• Once the download is done, the installer will walk you through the normal installation steps.  Tell it you are upgrading an existing system.  It will recognize all of your current drives, partitions, setting, everything.
• Done.  You now have a Mandrake 10 system.

Once Mandrake does the wide release of Mandrake 10, installation will be even easier.  Find a site hosting the ISO files, download them using Bittorrent, burn the CDs, reboot from CD1, and off you go.  But the fact that I can do a full upgrade over the Internet using only the steps I gave above, with no problems what so ever... well, bravo to Mandrake.

Oh, and Mandrake 10 comes with Python 2.3.3.

Dave Korn announced GCC 3.4.6:

"This release is a minor release, containing fixes for regressions relative to earlier releases, but no new features. It is the final release from the 3.4.x series and the branch is now closed. It is thus also the final release from GCC series 3 overall."

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 3.4.6 from a gcc.gnu.org mirror.

O'Reilly has published Computer Science & Perl Programming - Best of The Perl Journal. This is a compilation of articles originally published in The Perl Journal. Chapter 57, 'Spidering an FTP Site', is an article I wrote for The Perl Journal which describes how to recursively upload/download files and directories to/from an FTP site.

MSN Remote Record is live and out of beta.  In simplest terms it's a way of browsing the same TV guide as your Media Center PC uses and then remotely instructing your Media Center PC to record something.  Pretty clever stuff.  There's a small download for your Media Center PC and then it looks pretty easy to use.

Try it and let me know what you think.

Thanks for all the nice feedback on the stories about the Business Leadership Forum in Rome. There are two final links that may be of interest. Chris Barger at IBM has posted the audio for the podcast about the demos, Internet technology, and healthcare. You can play it from here. Also, if you like the printed word, there is a single pdf that contains all the stories in one 23 page printable document. You can find it here.

Intro to Roman Rendezvous Stories
Index to Roman Rendezvous stories
Podcast
Transcript of podcast

April 8, 2006

IBM had some demonstrations set up in the breakout areas at the Auditorium Parco della staffed by researchers and experts in various areas. There was a lot of interest during coffee breaks. After lunch before the final session of the forum got started I had interview with Chris Barger from IBM to talk about the demonstrations and also a few thoughts on the future of healthcare and the Internet. Here is the transcript and here is the podcast.

Intro to Roman Rendezvous Stories
Index to Roman Rendezvous stories
Podcast
Transcript of podcast

Have you ever printed a web page only to find that the right-hand edge is missing? This is for you. First, this download page will install the control. After installation, close the browser window and reopen a new one. You should have a new printer icon with a small 'W' next to it on the toolbar. Press this to bring up a print dialog which will then print the page fitted to the width of your paper. Alternatively, hold down the Control key while pressing the button and you will get a print preview instead.

Developer Productivity Study: Comparing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 to SAP XI for Integrating Heterogeneous Systems (Download)

Today’s business applications not only run on a number of different platforms, they are often implemented in a variety of programming languages, running on multiple operating systems. To meet these demands, enterprise developers are progressively merging systems and infrastructure into comprehensive integration suites by relying on service-oriented architectures (SOA) that make integration possible at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Microsoft engaged Crimson Consulting Company, a leading provider of consulting services to the high technology industry, to conduct a comparative study of developer productivity with integration servers Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 and SAP XI 3.0, using mySAP™ ERP in heterogeneous environments. The study was conducted in collaboration with Intelligroup, one of the leading SAP integrators.

This paper explains Crimson's methodology and results of their study.

BizTalk Server 2006 Labs (Download)

These labs demonstrate Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 capabilities by integrating various heterogeneous applications and systems in a business-to-business (B2B) environment.

The package contains the following documents with supporting code:

• Lab Prerequisites.doc
• Lab Scenario 1 - Send Messages from BTS 2006 to SAP System.doc
• Lab Scenario 2 - Receive Messages from SAP System to BTS 2006.doc
• Lab Scenario 3 - Send and Receive Messages from BTS 2006 to SAP System Synchronously.doc

Robotics has been one of those things that I find interesting but didn’t know a whole lot about. But ran across this great site on MSDN with a download for the Robotics CTP. It also has some great getting started materials and tutorials. Very cool stuff!

AutoStich is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, AutoStitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications.

The content keeps coming!!
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3294ddaf-9f67-409f-a92d-2f6070dc0d1a&displaylang=en

Today we are announcing the release of our documentation refresh for BizTalk Server 2006. This bag of goodies (.chm format) contains everything in the RTM version and the following:

• Complete documentation for all BizTalk Server Line of Business Adapters, including new tutorials, one for each adapter. See the section 'Using Adapters.'
• Troubleshooting guidance for each of the native BizTalk adapters. See the section 'Troubleshooting Adapters.'
• Troubleshooting Instructions for how to capture a memory dump. See the section 'How to Capture a Memory Dump of a BizTalk Process.'
• Disaster recovery instructions for backing up and restoring your BizTalk Server and databases. See the section 'Backing Up and Restoring BizTalk Server'
• Updated Tutorials. See the section, 'BizTalk Server 2006 Tutorials'
• Information for improving fault tolerance. See the section 'Planning and Architecture'
• Updated Developer's Reference that now includes the BAM namespaces that were not included in the RTM documentation. See the section 'Developer's Reference'

In addition there are numerous fixes based heavily on YOUR feedback that was gathered through our documentation feedback mechanism. Keep sending that feedback!

Note: This content will be available through MSDN shortly, but is all yours in .chm format right now!

Enjoy!