VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.

Our main product is the cross-platform VLC media player.

It is a free cross-platform media player
It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, …)

Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information — from videos to presentations — and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

The question of the day is, with Visual Studio 2008 already happening and SQL Server 2008 maybe not happening for real for at least another six months, just how many “heroes” will be “happening here” at the Windows Server 2008 launch gala?
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and … Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}

Build 2957 of Clarion.NET introduced some significant changes to the Clarion# language, including the removal of automatic class instantiation and a switch to zero-based arrays. Dave Harms looks at the reasons behind the changes and the impact on Clarion# code.
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Why can’t we have Update procedures linked to the context of the record in the browse, not the browse (or the file for the browse) itself?
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I was offline this two days. Now I’ve returned and I have a news

The ability to automate administrative tasks is vital in almost any SQL Server database environment. In the SQL Server world, this scheduling of work is known as a “Job.” It allows you to perform such tasks as database maintenance, invoke executables, ActiveX script, Integration Services packages, and business transactions.

I’ll show you how to develop a SQL Server Job from scratch to monitor the size of the database files on your server.

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Dunnington would be Intel’s first monolithic design since its original Core 2 Duo chips released in 2006. The presentation indicates that Dunnington has six 45-nanometer Penryn-class cores integrated onto a single die. Each pair of Penryn cores shares 3MBs of Level 2 cache, and each of the six cores can access 16MBs of Level 3 cache. That’s a ton of space to store frequently used instructions, which could be a help for the chip in avoiding the front-side bus bottleneck to the main memory that’s still apparently in the works for Dunnington.
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A Microsoft executive on Friday sent workers an upbeat email outlining a vision of how the software giant expects to take over Yahoo and merge the companies’ cultures and resources.

In a message to employees, Microsoft platform and services division president Kevin Johnson shared “a perspective of the process going forward.”
“We look forward to a constructive dialogue with Yahoo’s board, management, shareholders, and employees on the value of this combination and its strategic and financial merits,” Johnson wrote.

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To celebrate the release of our new website I’m running a “Double your money” competition from today until the end of March. More info is
available on the new homepage at www.strategyonline.co.za.

FullRecord is a professional audit trail system.
Now fully automatic in FullRecord 2.x!!
The full record of everything that is changed in the system allows you to know exactly who, how, when and what happened at any time with each record of all your files, and among other things you can recover lost information, analyze operation sequences to optimize the system work, find operational errors and educate the user to improve the use of the system. No more blame on YOU for lost information!

What’s new:
New: Procedure Name now can be recorded in “source” type procedures.
Fix: ABC Template: was not compatible with Clarion 6.1 and before.
Fix: Procedure Name generation moved to first priority on Init code section.
Fix: Read buffer was incorrectly saved when a change operation was taken place right after an insert.

It seems that a good news does not come along alone these days

I am VERY pleased to announce that this morning both my applications (La Suite Comptable CGF) and Data Management Center were officially approved by Microsoft as certified for Windows 2008 Server !

I have fougth to try and acheive this for the past two years for Suite Comptable and again since one month for DMC

A fight? yes because originally it was impossible to have any Clarion app certified becuase of too old and deprecated API’s being used in the RTL.

Clarion not moving a millimeter in this respect did not help at all so it is exclusively because of a change in Microsoft’s way of testing that this was
possible…

It is true that the brand new Server 2008 OS is a fantastic one : imagine installing on a very “out of common” machine (dual dual core core hand build machine supermicro motherboard ATI video card ARECA sata controller etc etc) a new Microsoft OS and not having a single issue - drivers all found within the OS installer (excepet the sata controller and video) - no more blue screens - no more hanging up in the middle of installation … Bravo M$

I think this is an acheivement for all the Clarion community at the same time because now we know we can go out there and be “present” like other big boys.

Maybe with more figthing like this, we will soon (NOT trademarked this one) be able to wave off the “what is Clarion” question when offering our work or services…..

Thanks again to all who supported and helped all this to become true and Friedrich with Setup Builder is the leader

Data Management Center
A tool to help you Transfer - Import - Export your data so easily ….

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I’d like to be the first Clarionite to wish Clarion 7 Alpha it’s very first HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (cheers arise from the audience)

Yes folks, after almost 3 years of development, the nascent Alpha was announced on February 23rd 2007 to the thankful Clarion masses, who just happenned to be eagerly awaiting C7 Gold that most thought would be out in the 1st Quarter. Alpha was released in Phase I of IV, and just recently it appears to have made it *all the way up* to Phase II. WAY TO GO GUYS!
Congratulations and cigars to all that worked so long and hard in reaching that monumental plateau. It’s wonderful to see such progress, and I’m sure we will all be wishing gool ol’ Alpha Happy Birthday for years to come.

ABonds

ps
We all drank vodka in Russia in honor of this day

I have begun recoding my existing Clarion 63 classes to Clarion#.Net and plan to release them all as public domain over the coming months…

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