Just a quick link to some of the things that can be done to customise Firefox (if you still don’t know). I just had to put this here as I recommended this link to 5 people who did not know about it, so I assumed that there are many more out there who would not know it either.

OK, my blogging activities goes down again as I am at Microsoft Sydney these days and I hardly get any time to browse through the blog in the day time and don’t have heavy Internet access in the evening time. I am also catching up with lot of people here. So will be back blogging once I am back.

Finally there is a blog for Windows Server products and it can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsserver .

Microsoft is offering complimentary 60 day trial copy of Microsoft Digital Suite. Register here to get your complimentary trial copy now.

By the way has anybody used this tool before and has anything to share on it?

What’s new in Firefox 1.0.1?

Improved stability
International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode. (To show International Domain Names in Unicode, set the “network.IDN_show_punycode” preference to false.)
Several security fixes.

Download it here.

OK, this is a joke for those who knows who Laloo Prasad Yadav is in India. This is more funny joke when you know Laloo 🙂

Laloo Prasad sent his Bio Data – to apply for a post in Microsoft Corporation, USA. A few days later he got this reply:

Dear Mr. Laloo Prasad,
We are sorry to intimate you that you do not meet our requirements.
Please do not send any further correspondence. No phone call shall be entertained.
Thanks

Laloo Prasad jumped with joy on receiving this reply. He arranged a party and when all the guests had come, he said: “Bhaiyon aur Behno, aap ko jaan kar khushi hogee ki hum Amreeca mein naukri paa gava hoon.”

Everyone was delighted.

Laloo Prasad continued…… “Ab main aap sab ko apnaa appointment letter padkar sunaongaa – par letter angreeze main hai – isliyen saath-saath Hindi main roopanter bhee karoonga.

Dear Mr. Laloo Prasad ….. Pyare Laloo Prasad bhaiyya
We are sorry …… humse galti ho gayee
to intimate you that ……… aapko yeh batana hai ki
You do not meet ……… aap to miltay hee naheen ho !
our requirement ……… humko to zaroorat hai
Please do not send any further correspondence ………ab Letterwa vetterva bhej ne ka kaouno
zaroorat nahee.
No phone call ……… phoonwa ka bhee zaroorat nahee hai
shall be entertained ……… bahut khaatir kee jayegi.
Thanks ……… aapkaa bahut bahut dhanyawaad

I am late in posting this, but I am still feeling the exhaustion from yesterday. Driving to the city for the summit was interesting. The Microsoft Security summit was kind of OK for me. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I found that some of the sessions did not really have to do much with Security nor with Security summit. Although I did enjoy most of the sessions.

Now meeting people at the summit was even more fun. Although not a developer, I hanged out in MSDN Loungue with other developers and exchanged my views on some of the topics they were discussing. The first known stranger I met was Thomas Williams. Thomas do you think I talk a lot? Interesting man Thomas is. The other one was William Luu. This was my first Geek dinner ever attended. I was just curious how it will turn out to be and as found out by me and many, it was a fantastic evening. Matt was the one who was taking all the moments captured in his new baby! Great job Matt. Matt has the list of all people there at the Geek Dinner. Spoke a lot to Peter Stanski (oops, Dr. Pete ). Based on the talks seems that Peter is all rounder. He has a consultancy firm at www.stanski.com.

Yes Matthew, I get flattered when people say that they read my blogs. It’s just a good feeling to know how many people I am connecting to. The interesting thing was I met two other Indian guys, Mayur and Vinit( without this even I don’t see how would have we met ) who work for Lancom Technologies. Good to see more Indian faces in such geek Dinners. Nice talking to you Andrew Coates, Jeff Alexander ,Greg Low and Michael Kleef. Looking forward to getting more involved into IT Pro Newsgroups in Melbourne. All in all, a great night out. A wonderful experience. Did I mention, Microsoft paid for it too!

Hoping to have a event like this organised soon in the future and hoping that more Geeks join up the team.

Ryan ODwyer Of Microsoft SBS Usergroups Melbourne linked to a interesting little article on how we can view additional user info in Active Directory Users and Computer console. It’s interestingly simple and I never thought that we could obtain all this extra useful information without buying a third party tool.

Are you one of those who thinks Firefox is faster than IE or Opera? Do you want to have something even faster than that, than try optimsed version of Firefox for different type of processors. I see a lot of good reviews about the optimised version. Have’nt tried it myself, but going to try after I finish writing this post. Ofcourse I am not one of the mainstream Firefox users yet! Still hanging on with Internet Explorer.

Has anybody has any good or bad reviews about these Optimised version of Firefox?

Update:- I think it is fast. Not sure if this is a mental factor, but I find it faster. I did not have to install anything either. Try out and see what you feel for it.

Tommorrow we have Microsoft Security Summit and also geek dinner after the summit. I am looking forward to both of them. So if you guys read this before the geek dinner, try your best to join us. It will be great to catch up with people I only know through blogs and references. See you all tommorrow.