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Here is some of my favorite artwork from the StarCraft 2 game that was just released today! I found all of this on the Blizzard site here.

I added a new table to MSSQL via the SQL Server Management Studio tool. Then while still in design view I tried to make another change to the same table. When I hit the save button it says something like “saving changes not permitted because the table needs to be dropped and recreated”.

Looking in the options menu. I found a setting that was causing this problem. To disable this do the following:  Tools > Options > Designers > Tables and Designers > Uncheck the Prevent Saving Changes that require table re-creation option.

That fixes it for me.

This will remove empty directories on any *nix based OS. Of course you have to sudo the command or run it as root depending on how things are configured.

find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

The following code will dump it to a list first, then you can review the list and count the number of lines before deleting the empty dirs.

find -depth -type d -empty > list_for_review
cat list_for_review | wc -l
find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;


If you just want to count the number of empty dirs use the following command.

find -depth -type d -empty | wc -l

Have fun removing dirs. :D

Zanis Waldheims Geometric Abstraction Art, originally uploaded by Yves Jeanson.

amazing works of art

Second, along with the new edition of Office 2008, the team is hard at work on the next version of Office for Mac which will launch in time for the 2010 Holiday season. This next version includes a new application– Outlook for Mac. Outlook for Mac is being built from the ground up as a Mac OS X application using Cocoa. It will have a new database that delivers a reliable, high performance, and integrated experience with Mac OS X.  Users will be able to back-up with Time Machine and search email, calendar and contacts with Spotlight. Additionally, Outlook for Mac and the rest of Office will include Information Rights Management, which helps keep sensitive information for only audiences that you intend.
via (mactopia)

The next big version won’t be ready for a while so assuming that what they said on their blog is true a year from now, it sounds like they will be dropping the name. Until then the new version of Entourage sounds pretty interesting, Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition.

The biggest news here is that they are dropping the WebDAV for a better Web Services type communication with Exchange. This will allow for syncing of notes, tasks and calenders. Something that Outlook has been doing for a long time now. It is interesting they don’t mention contacts, because calenders and contacts are the two big things you would want to sync with exchange.

The iGoogle settings are fairly well hidden. On this page you can do helpful things like:

• Hide or Show the Google Chat widget
• Change from Two or Three column layouts
• Easily see/share/delete what gadget you have installed
• Backup and restore the page
• Export/Import settings to a XML file

I was interested in hiding the Gtalk widget on the iGoogle page because I don’t use it anymore. There are some helpful settings available that anyone who uses iGoogle should know about.

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