Migration issue of MainMenu to MenuStrip
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MenuStrip/ToolStripMenuItem pair is not 100% backwards compatible with MainMenu/MenuItem. One particular thing is how keyboard shortcuts work.

Dual HexaCore Xeon E5649 performance in HP DL380 G7
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First benchmarked using latest Passmark. Then did some tests with latest Aida64. What's interesting here is that both processor and memory speed keeps fluctuating. I have not found a good explanation for this behavior.

Edit XML using Powershell
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Because there is no easy/built-in way to edit XML using Powershell, I wrote a script that can change parts of XML documents. I used it for bulk edit of connections in Remote Desktop Manager, to change some values in RDP session over dozens of servers. You can modify it for your needs - in simple cases you would only need to change `ArrayOfConnection` to your document's root.

.NET Winforms - App loses focus when a window is closed
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I have a main form which is an MDI parent and a modal form, which is a progress dialog. When loading is completed, an MDI child is opened. If it cannot be completed, an error message shows up with user prompt. Problem is if user takes action, and the modal form is closed, the focus is switched to the application, which was active before my application was started.

Mushkin SSD in an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server
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HP ProLiant DL380 G7 -- Mushkin Enhanced Chronos SSD - 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC (MKNSSDCR240GB) -- (RAID1) 2 x Seagate Savvio 10K.5 hard drive -- 300 GB 2.5" 6Gb/s SAS 10000 rpm 64 MB Buffer (ST9300605SS)

Corsair RMA experience in Canada - Memory replacement
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After installing the memory kit, I noticed weird blue screens and sudden application crashes on a fairly new workstation. They happened 1-2 times a day. Tried many things to remedy, but then decided to check memory with Memtest. During the first 15% of it I got over 100K errors in one specific region of the 16GB range, so I estimated 1 stick is faulty.

Many packages did not load correctly in Visual Studio 2010
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So I have my VS 2010 and also just installed VS 2012. After that my main project started showing this error -- The β€˜VSTS for Database Professionals Sql Server Data-tier Application’ package did not load correctly.

PowerShell - Convert Array To HashTable
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There are many ways to do this, depending on what you need. In this article I'm going to highlight 2 of them. (1) Function-style conversion (2) Filter-style conversion.