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I've always wanted to do this: defrag using C#

Now you can make up your own placement algorithms, implement them in C# and use the above PInvoke to wreck your file system :)

"Ze also gave out missions, such as ... building an "Earth sandwich," which consisted of placing pieces of bread on exact opposite points of the globe." As featured on Slashdot.

From the end of one of his shows (whisky advert):

It is quite liberating to throw out all that stuff one doesn't really need. But choosing to not take the Dyson or the bicycle... tough call. Apart from laptops, those are the two most expensive things I want to take with, but though the Dyson will be a good weapon against the dust, I have to be realistic: the bicycle will get almost no play out in the desert. So 11 boxes it is:

"From the CAT scan developed by South African physicist Allan Cormack (who subsequently won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and the Lodox Statscan (which renders full-body x-rays), to the massive concrete breakwaters (or dolosse) invented by Eric Merrifield, the world’s first heart transplant performed by Dr Chris Barnard, the Hippo Water Roller, the Waterless Toilet and the Kreepy Krauly..."

www.sagoodnews.co.za/sa_teaching

There is reason to be negative, but from the above, there is equal reason to be enthusiastic about the future!

SSRS == SQL Server Reporting Services. Here is something a fellow MCT, Dandy Weyn, told me about in response to a student question: It is possible to add custom renderers to SSRS! For example SoftArtisans allows SSRS to render to Word. More info on MSDN.