EC2 just launched Windows support and announced pricing. Summary: Windows instances add 25% to the instance-hours component.

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Standard Instances Linux/UNIX Windows
Small (Default) $0.10 per hour $0.125 per hour
Large $0.40 per hour $0.50 per hour
Extra Large $0.80 per hour $1.00 per hour

Quoted: What’s the big deal - there are already ways to synchronize stuff on the net. Foxmarks is a good example: you install it in Firefox on several computers, and your bookmarks sync seamlessly. Live Mesh, however, is a single platform that will make it easier for 3rd party app developers to do this. If Microsoft does this right, you’ll get used to using the Live Mesh for syncing all your devices, files as well as most or all of your applications.

This is probably a good thing to download and install on your Windows machines before they remove it.

Quoted: The Giveaway of the Day web site is offering the normally $90 Data Recovery Wizard Professional software as a free download today only. If you've accidentally deleted important files or documents, chances are the Data Recovery Wizard Professional edition can recover them (if another process didn't overwrite the disk space with new data).

This is the easiest way I've found...

Quoted: To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep:
net stop beep

click to play

Would you invest in this company?

Quoted: The commercial of Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer telling about all the features of the OS

Cool, these steps worked. Thanks Lee!

Quoted: How can I disable / enable the internal speaker?
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If you're running Microsoft Windows you can disable the Internal speaker or PC speaker by following the below steps.

While Emacs is my primary editor, I use this editor to search and manipulate very large files. The only downside is that the text mode is much slower than the hex mode. What I typically do for a large text file is open it in hex mode, locate the relevant section (you can search for text even in this mode), and copy/paste it into a smaller text mode buffer.

Quoted: EditPad Lite: A fine text editor with all the necessary basic features. Free for non-commercial use. An ideal replacement for Notepad.

I just noticed the default power setting on my Vista dev box is "Balanced" -- meaning it goes to sleep after awhile. I wonder if this is why cannot connect to remote desktop from home.

Quoted: The default "off" state is now the new Sleep power state. Just press the power button on the Start menu or on your PC, and your PC will automatically save your current session to memory, and then quickly enter into a very low power state. It will also save your session to the hard drive, so you can access it even if the memory loses power. Then, when you want to resume your computer use, just press the power button on your PC. Your PC will turn on in seconds, and be just how you left it last time.