This is exactly what I've been trying to find a good way to do for the past few days! I run XBMC on my Xbox, but it can't handle HD, so I've been researching HTPC's and wanted a small, cheap setup to stream videos from my main desktop... this should work perfectly.

Anyone have experience on how well WHS gets along with Truecrypt partition-based or file-based containers? #windowshomeserver

@mig000: for-profit software development =/= non-educational

@mike_311: Hey, if you want to "advance computing as a science and a profession" (as the ACM puts it), welcome aboard. If you're interested in any of the technical fields the ACM covers, enjoy your stay.

I'm a software developer. I majored in Computer Science in my undergrad days. I hate, hate, hate people joining our professional organizations (like this) or flooding launch events (posing as developers) like this: [arstechnica.com]

@JohnnySaber: Depends on your school. At my university, even though alumni keep their .edu email addresses, the faculty purge their associated MSDNAA credentials.

If you're still in school, see if your university has an MSDN Academic Alliance partnership with Microsoft. Usually offers operating systems (XP, Vista, 7), Office, and developer tools (Visual Studio, Visio, SourceSafe) for free.

@Phoshi: Locks only keep out honest people.

@jimmyrizzo: Direct via Google-cache:

@Red_Flag: ... or not. Clicking "Download" just comes back with "The requested page could not be found."

... I have been wanting something exactly like this for removing some unneeded junk that shows up in my Explorer context menu. Going to try it out now.

Does Astra store your individual messenger passwords in the cloud like Digsby?

@Paul McCall: Have you been sleeping 4 hours a night for this past week? Cause as defensive as you sound concerning other people's lives, you don't seem happy.

I recently started using CueCard. Portable, imports/exports to CSV, supports Unicode. The best of what I've tried so far. (No web or iPhone integration though).

@Nuthouse: But only buy it if you have a Mac, because they choose not to port their software for the masses: "At this point, usually the only people who aren’t buying are the ones who don’t own Macs. To them, we say: we’re sorry. For the rest of you... enjoy."

A killer feature I'm looking for is the ability to keep track of loaned items. Not quite library level, but I'd like to note somewhere that even though I own that book it's currently being borrowed by a friend so I shouldn't freak out when I can't find it...

@anudeglory: Oooooo, shiny. Trying this out...

I hated, hated, hated using regular expressions. Mostly because it was a bear testing them without running the application I was developing and generating a bunch of dummy data.

I really like PDF XChange's UI and most of its features. One thing missing that I can only get from Sumatra — if I open up a PDF that uses Chinese or Japanese characters and try to copy and paste them, XChange copies garbage, Sumatra copies the characters flawlessly.

They offer a PDF with fill-in forms and an Excel version for people (like me) who wouldn't want this stuff to be lying around in deadtree format.