Hebrew XP

For the first time I've seen Windows Xp in Hebrew today.

Now ..I consider myself as a power user ( you know .. about 8 years of being a programmer .. 3 years being a system administrator)

Even I've had a dillema when I pressed the "START" button to log off from the system.

I had to choose between two options.. between "ניתוק" and "התנתקות".

How can a simple home user can understand the difference???

That's what I call dumb UI...

Do you want to open or save this file ?

When you go to url which is a non-html file ( for example - PDF, WMV , AVI ) ,

and the IE just automatically opens the file in the appropriate application - it's great !

BUT .. sometimes you would like it to ask you what do you want to do with the file ?

For example - maybe you don't want to watch the WMV right now , but rather download it , and watch it later.

Well .. I wanted the IE to ask me about WMV's - but it just automatically opens it with the Media Player .

Why ?

Since once when I opened a wmv file - IE asked me the following :

And I choosed "Open" and removed the "V" from the "Always ask before opening this type of file".

Now the question is how do you get back to this to mark that checkbox ..?

Well .. here you go :

Explorer ( Windows file explorer ... not IE ) ->

Tools->

Folder Options->

File Types ->

->

Advanced ->

Mark the "Confirm Open after download"

I just wonder .. shouldn't it be much simpler ? And why it's not in IE !?!?!

Do you want 100% privecy ?

Come to Israel .. we need English teachers !

ASM Language

Just read in IE blog , that IE8 is now available in additional languages .

One of them is "Assamese" - a languge I've never heard about

( well.. I guess it's not the only one )

Anyway - it's code is "ASM" :)

jmpl %r15+4,%r0

addcc %r3,%r5,%r3

Google.. pro-arab ???

Well... as I were using "Google Trends" and "Google Insights for search",

I noticed an interesting fact..

That's from Google Trends :

And that's from  Insights for search:

Can anyone tell the difference ??

Mutiple Language Bars in remote desktop

This bugged me for a long time..
When you log in to a server via remote destop , the taskbar is messed up with multiple language bars . And every time you log in , you get another one .

Well here is the solution from MS :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932039/en-us

( to those of you who transferred to that article on the MS Israel site - you need to choose your location as US at the top of the page , and then this article contains a link to the hotfix .
The Israeli version for some reason does not contain the link to the hotfix )

System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send

Ok.

Thanks to MS for moving it from System.Web.Mail t0 System.Net.Mail (in .NET 2) ,
and improving the API .
And writing the code that replaces CDO.
And giving an option to use embedded resources ( besides attachments)

But WHY !! WHY when I send the mail , there is a delay , or executes only when thread is closed ??

The answer and the solution is here :
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=164793&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0

( On the second page there is the answer from "jptros" . Also look at the post from Damienb about solving CPU problem)

Took about an hour to find the reason . Annoying and stupid .

Also following links are usefull resources :
http://www.systemwebmail.com/
http://systemnetmail.com/
System.Net.Mail and embedded images