Summary: Does a solution written for Microsoft .NET have to be 100% .NET? Scott Hanselman looks at how hybrid managed-unmanaged solutions are really the norm. Read More . . .
No, I don't like the idea of sticking to one technology for everything. Try different things to get the best out of least.
MSDN Article via Scott Hanselman.

We just added some new features to Khyal Gallery:
1. Noticeboard in which you can stick what you want like any notice board by contacting Khyal.
2. Artlinks where you can find a massive updating list of links to art sites.
Also we have 3 new artists: Haideh Zarrinbal, Kourosh Khataeizade and Shirin Doroudian.

DBDesigner 4 is an interesting (open source and totally FREE) tool for designing your database. It's a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment. It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way to handle your databases. Read More . . .

Microsoft's dominance of the desktop operating system market isn't a threat to U.S. national security, according to a new study finding that a worm or other malicious attack on Windows is unlikely to produce a catastrophic failure of the Internet. Read More . . .

Tehran - The governor of mountainous Qazvin province and at least five other people were killed on Saturday as their helicopter crashed during an inspection of an earthquake-hit zone north of Tehran, Iranian media said. The state news agency IRNA said the governor, Massud Emami, and the provincial police chief, an aide to the governor, the pilot and two other passengers all died. According to the student news agency ISNA, two journalists on the flight were also killed. The helicopter was headed for Alamout to inspect the damage from Friday's killer quake, state television said. There was no immediate word on the cause of the air crash. At least 25 people were killed and 400 injured when the quake jolted a wide mountainous area north of Tehran, according to state media. Hundreds more people were left injured or homeless in a string of villages in the Alborz mountain range in Qazvin and the neighbouring province of Mazandaran. Via News24.

According to Shargh Newspaper, at least 60 as died in yesterday's N. Iran earthquake.

According to ISNA, Iran Student's News Agency, 21 has died in Mazandaran and 15 in Ghazvin.

I will try to get more information and post here during today. Stay tuned...

QAZVIN, Iran (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck the Alborz mountain chain in northern Iran, killing at least 20 people and damaging scores of villages, officials said. The quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey said measured 6.2 on the Richter scale, also shook the capital Tehran on Friday, sending some startled residents running into the streets. Some windows were broken. Details on casualties and damage were thin, but officials in the quake-prone Islamic Republic played down fears of a heavy death toll in the lush region on the Caspian Sea coast that is famed for its exports of caviar. Qazvin province governor Massoud Emami said about 80 villages in his area suffered damage of 20 to 100 percent in the quake, which occurred five months after more than 20,000 people were killed by a quake that hit the southeastern city of Bam.

According to a report, 80 percent of Ghazvin villages are destroyed.

Is there any need so we reactivate http://www.iranemdad.com/ ? If you think so, please leave me a comment.

According to Mehr News, Tehran residents are outside their hourse in parks and enjoying their time! It is 4:22AM.

Not a major issue looks like in Tehran because of earthquake and everyone is fine. Just people have terrified in memory of what happened in Bam. Reuters reports:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An earthquake has rattled Iran's lush Caspian Sea area, killing at least seven people and sending terrified residents running into the streets in the capital Tehran 70 km (45 miles) inland.

Tehran University is now 70 years old. Happy birthday!

Lockergnome: "Microsoft Corp. will soon release technology that takes search functions far beyond the Internet, allowing users to pour through e-mails, personal computers and even big databases to find the information they want, a top executive said."

Thanks to Steve Hebert for keeping me informed of .Math. It is out and can be reached on GotDotNet Workspace. Also there is a web page that you can use to evaluate some limited expressions.

Jose Mourinho, the man with the Midas touch, got his hands on the most precious metal of all as his Porto side overwhelmed Monaco to secure the European Cup. Read More . . .

The Web Service Enhancements (WSE) v2.0 for .NET is now out! Via Robert.

Ward, inventor of the Wiki, says he's learned 100 programming languages, so we wondered if he feels particularly strongly about one of them over the others? What's your favorite language? Did it teach you anything today? Watch the Video. Via Channel9.

I am going to write in IT Buzzer's Blog in Persian language. Thanks to Saeed.

I assume that Windows is build as a collection of components (kernel, middleware, graphical system, ...). My question is: why do we have to reboot the whole system after installing a patch or a new program? Isn't it possible to stop that service/component, patch it and restart it without having to reboot the whole os? Read More . . .

I have recently started looking at Whidbey, you might find this article which I got it today in my 123aspx.com's newsletter interesting:
Learn about the Master Pages feature in ASP.NET Whidbey and the new level of productivity it brings to development.

Saeed is now writing in an English blog as well has his Farsi blog, called "IT Buzzer's Corner".

Babak discussing Google's next service and predicting it as Google Messenger. Find out more about his predictions here.

With conversation threading, slick usability, and a gigabyte of storage, this groundbreaking service ushers in a new era of free mail. Read More . . .

Nice post, actually some facts, by Jason Olson, specially for programmers who are spending all their day in front of their computer coding. I am not like that, since I have some other jobs than coding! I prefer reading most of my day rather than coding.

Check these URLs and conclude yourself!
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2004/05-20CEOSummit.asp
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1596168,00.asp
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5210903
And finally: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=8121#8121

Help us improve Windows Server by providing us with your suggestions and ideas. All feedback submitted will be sent to the Windows Server Development Team for review and analysis. Your ideas can impact Windows Server in many ways, and might even be incorporated into new Service Packs, Feature Packs, or the next Windows Server release.

I just reinstalled our English to Persian dictionary on IRTechies. http://dictionary.irtechies.com/. Feel free to use its Web Service for own dictionary.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Demonstrators angry about the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq have hurled petrol bombs, firecrackers and stones at the British embassy in Iran, witnesses say. Two petrol bombs landed harmlessly outside the high embassy compound walls, but one cleared the wall and landed inside, a Reuters witness at the scene on Wednesday said. The crowd of about 200 demonstrators broke some windows in an administrative building belonging to the embassy, a British diplomat said.

I published the news before Netcraft!
In a sign of continued expansion for the dedicated server market, The Planet has leased additional data center space and is hiring staff. The Planet has signed a 10-year lease for a 21,000 square foot data center in Dallas, where it already operates a 60,000 square foot facility. Read More . . .

This is my 1000th post in Tech Guru blog. Couldn't imagine a day reaching this.

Aaron Swartz reports that his Gmail account showing 1TB of space. "You are currently using 437 MB (0%) of your 1000000 MB.".
But mine still showing 1GB!

BBC News Online wants you to send in your pictures of the Middle East. We are asking anyone with a camera to send in their digital pictures to turn into a picture gallery every week - just send to the email address below. The images can be from news events but also from your everyday life - your favourite view, your friends and family or your holiday snaps from around the Middle East. The best photos sent to us will be put into a weekly photo gallery, so please send us your name, where you live and some brief details about the picture you took. E-mail them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk

Steve Hebert has created a math compiler called dotMath which he has written it entirely in C#. Read more on his blog about it. I am interested to test it!

Here you can find a mathematical proof that girls are evil. Just kidding ;) Via Scripting News.

According to a Russian security site, 800 MB of data was stolen from Cisco Networks and around 2.5 MB of code snippet were made available on IRC Networks, more details can be found from Arstechnica. Via Tejas Patel.

Babak Farrokhi: "I hate to see those people who claim they are Linux SysAdmins while they can't even format a floppy disk from command line, or does not understand inode concept, and even worse, instead of Reading The Friendly Manual (RTFM)..."

Mikhail Arkhipov, is talking about: "Why VS 2003 keeps changing your HTML and what you can (and cannot) do to it."

Leicester did their best to poop the party but Arsenal survived a first-half scare to emerge 2-1 winners at Highbury and complete a historic unbeaten Premiership season. Paul Dickov's opener stunned the champions but second-half goals from Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira assured the Gunners of their place in the record books.

The Planet / ServerMatrix Announces the launch of another new datacenter. The new datacenter is located at 400 S. Akard in Downtown Dallas. This datacenter is 22,000 square feet and will house 12,000 to 15,000 servers. This is a Tier 1 facility with raised floor, 12 - 30 tons Data Aire HVACS, Dry Pipe Fire Suppression System, VESDA, 500KVA UPS Units, and a 1.5 Megawatt diesel generator. The datacenter is located on the 3rd floor of Carrier Center Dallas (old Federal Reserve Building). We brought in our own OC192 SONET Ring and the bandwidth will be exactly like our current network. It will house ServerMatrix and Total Control only. It will be staffed onsite with over 50 employees. Dell is the server of choice in the new facility. We will have webcams and pics up on Monday. This datacenter went live today with the first few customers with the "official launch" on Monday the 17th.

Not a major update, but 3 new artists are added to our web site, Khyal Gallery. Reza Nosrati, Esmaeil Mohamadi and Alireza Vataniman. Enjoy your time.

PC World's Techlog, News, opinion, and links from Editor in Chief Harry McCracken. Powered By MT. Via Anil Dash's Daily Links.

Now, this makes me laugh:
"the mail server microsoft uses to send out email confirmations when mail adresses of passport users are change is blacklisted. the server is profile.microsoft.com [207.46.248.71], and it is listed on bl.spamcop.net."
BTW, we were blacklisted AGAIN by Yahoo!, and after refilling their abuse form and sending, they asked me several questions, around 25, and they again returned me back to Inbox rather than Bulk folder.

MS Watch: Microsoft's Shared Source team has released the source code for its Windows Template Library as open source on SourceForge.

I am wondering if there is anything out there with Google? I am getting 502 Server Error every now and then on google.com/adsense. Googlers, are you out there making changes?!

When a console application is started either from the File Manager, the Program Manager, Windows NT Explorer, or by typing start progname from the command prompt, it executes in its own console. This console disappears as soon as the application terminates, and therefore the user can't read anything written to the screen between the last pause and program exit. There are two approaches to keep the console window from disappearing. Read More . . . Via Lockergnome.

Take a look at winners here.

I just got this email from Google AdSense Team:
Now, in addition to text ads, you can choose to show highly-targeted image ads on your web pages. Unlike traditional banner ads, Google's image ads are contextually targeted to the content of your page, providing your users with a high impact, high value advertisement - and providing you with the opportunity to earn more revenue. For the full details about image ads, please read our What's New page at https://www.google.com/adsense/new.

BBC: "An Islamic militant website has shown a video apparently showing the beheading of an American in Iraq. The video showed five men in headscarves and ski masks cutting off the man's head with a knife. Moments earlier the victim, bound and dressed in an orange jumpsuit, said he was an American from Philadelphia."





This can't be the way.... can't be....

Googlers blogging Google!

Jay Glynn and Roy Osherove are discussing eXtreme Programming (XP). Recommended readings.

It is a nice discussion, you might trace it using its RSS feed.

Debugging an ASP.NET script doesn't have to entail embedding lots of print statements. Just use the handy trace functions to easily debug your code. Read More . . .

“Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Open TASKMGR.EXE from the Run command or by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory where the undeletable file is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete [the path to the file]. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.” Via Lockergnome.

Stefano has introduced two tools to decode ViewState values of any ASP.NET page.

A new international airport in Tehran has been closed on security grounds, shortly after it opened with the landing of the first foreign plane. Iran's armed forces permitted only one flight from Dubai to land at the Imam Khomeini airport (IKIA), the official Irna news agency reported. Airport officials were accused of ignoring a ban on "foreign groups" at the airport, south-west of the capital. The airport was built and was expected to be run by a Turkish-Austrian firm. It is designed to replace the city's congested Mehrabad airport. Read More . . .

Jay is talking about a fact, .NET 1.x although is not dead, but it will die soon. MSDN Magazine, June 2004: ASP.NET 2.0 Revealed.

PC Magazine reviews Sony Ericsson Z600. Looks nice, but PC Magazine recommends Motorola V series phones.

BBC has spoken to Darius Ashuri, a Persian language expert who I wonder how he can give comments on software producers on 'net!
"Software producers have not been highly professional, although the Persian fonts that have been created have been very good."
You see how funny? What do you want from Persian language the software producers have not given you? This makes us tired...

Reuters news and television is now available through the Reuters RSS service. With Reuters RSS you can take Reuters world class news and television headlines, free of charge, and incorporate them into your preferred newsreaders and web logs. We hope you enjoy this new service from Reuters.com.

Novell is proud to introduce the first Beta release of Mono, an open source implementation the .NET framework for use on Linux, Unix and Windows System. It includes a C# compiler, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure and two stacks of APIs: a Unix, Linux, GNOME, Mono stack for APIs that takes the most advantage of your Unix server and desktop and a set of APIs compatible with the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 that provides support for ASP.NET (web services and web forms), ADO.NET and many other components. Read More . . .

I managed lastly to add more to Khyal Gallery web site this week. All major Tehran galleries now got their own URL on Khyal using www.khyalgallery.com/galleries/galleryname which you can find a list of them and more details of each gallery using http://www.khyalgallery.com/Galleries.aspx which you might notice the home pages of galleries are coded using HttpHandlers. Also there is a new thing called Events which can be reached on http://www.khyalgallery.com/Events.aspx. You can view today Tehran gallery events, the ones finished, the ones just started and the coming ones using this page. Also each gallery's events can be viewed on their own page. Feel free to leave me a comment with your ideas and suggestions, will appreciate them.
BTW, forgot the big news! Our artworks are added to Froogle in a long procedure which you can find them here.

I wanted to check some friends' results for their MS exam today on sanjesh.org which was said to announce the results today but as usual, their web site is down when it shouldn't. Haven't they been able to get $100 monthly yet to supply a good server at least for 2, 3 months a year when there is a need of them?

Are you passionate about food? Do you love everything that embodies the art of cuisine--the aromas, the flavors, the presentation? Do you then desire to share your knowledge and experiences that you have gained with other food lovers, but have never found the right medium to do it...Stop looking, and join the sensational team of food lovers on FoodBloggers.com
Via Scott.

“Abuse is a simple program which will help people fight back spam. It will ‘read’ any e-mail header you indicate, go on-line and check the various NICs, open relay DBs… to discover who you should write to in order for your voice to be heard.” The change notes say, “If you’re not interested in testing, please download 1.0.2.15 instead.” Via Lockergnome.

This is a database of exceptions, errors and their solutions that have been discussed by developers in newsgroups. We don't include all newsgroup messages. Our crawler browses newsgroups and tries to collect only threads that have a description of an error/exception and solution to the problem. Please visit Microsoft newsgroups for the complete list of newsgroups.

Here it comes!
From Microsoft Watch: While most of the focus in Microsoft Service-Pack land has been on the forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft also pushing full-steam-ahead with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. A new interim beta build of SP1 went to private testers earlier this week.

Babak has become a bit disappointed of visitors. Babak your blog just rocks, continue the great job!

Scott has posted some pictures from his trip to Africa.

Ahmad saying: "Big News is Out: Google is Going IPO".

Now you can subscribe Second News RSS Feed and read your news in your own aggregator. Enjoy!

It is time to do some development on Second News, it will be working while we are developing it, but you might experience some issues, sorry for the inconvenience you might be experiencing.

Tomorrow is Tech Guru's birthday! Happy birthday Tech Guru!