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Ever see those MAC vs PC commercials that talk about how Apple Mac is always on and never has bugs, etc? Interesting enough, MAC users are furious that their MAC laptops are rebooting. Check this out: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016295,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL91506EOAD

Upcoming Meeting: September 20th The next .NET Valley meeting will be held on Wednesday September 20th at Luzerne County Community College , Nanticoke PA. A map of the campus can be found here . We will meet in building 7, room 703 . The event will begi…

Virtual PC 2004 has something within its build that prevents the Vista RC1 from being setup. When the setup begins, you’ll receive an error message about a corrupt install.wim file following the entry of your installation code. To get around this issue, download the free version of Virtual Server 2005 RC2. Setup Vista using that. Then, if you’d prefer a smoother interface, you can disconnect your machine and connect to the vmc file using Virtual PC. You’ll receive a hardware warning message since you’re using a newer vmc, but it will let you load the vmc. Hope that helps!

Scott Guthrie has just announced the Microsoft “Atlas” road map and name on his blog. Be sure to read the full details here. Besides the name, the best thing to get out of his post is that the Microsoft AJAX Library will be released for version 1.0 sometime before Christmas. How cool is that?

Many of the Windows Live products including Live.com and Live Search are now out of Beta mode and are considered “Live” products. Check out the updated Ideas site at http://ideas.live.com.

By now, many of you have come to realize that Microsoft has changed the way we send email from ASP.NET 1.1. In this article, I’ll examine the various aspects involved with sending emails in ASP.NET 2.0. You can read the article by visiting: http://aspalliance.com/962.

The beta for the XNA Game Studio Express was released yesterday. You can now download it and use it with VS 2005. You will also need to have a graphics card that supports DirectX 9.0 and Shader 2.0. The final version of XNA will be ready for the holiday…

ASPAlliance has released a content management system called SimpleCMS. It’s a pretty basic way to create, publish, edit, and remove pages from your website. To find out more about SimpleCMS, visit the website found at http://aspalliance.com/simplecms/.

Someone should tell Wally that if he wants to sell some copies of his book, he should crop himself out of the picture. ;) http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2006/08/24/I-have-some-copies-of-_2200Beginning-Ajax-with-ASP.NET_2200.aspx Apparently, Wally…

Subscribe Download ASP.NET Podcast URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/08/23/506.aspx Show Notes: Report from TechEd Australia. Jorke Odolphi. Note: Paul does a great job between all his commitments at TechEd. If you…