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Even if the deal goes through, I don’t see them overtaking Google. The Microsoftization of popular Web 2.0 properties such as Flickr and Delicious might even cause a mass exodus to Google’s corresponding services, such as Picasaweb.

Update: Yahoo rejected the offer. A collective sigh of relief was felt across the Internet.

Microsoft just invested $240 million in Facebook for rights to be the sole advertiser on the social networking site. Microsoft’s 1.6 percent stake would put Facebook’s valuation at $15 billion, ignoring Microsoft’s expected profits from advertising, which I am sure must have been really high, or such a huge investment would not have been approved.

Via Business Week

Facebook is visiting Columbia tomorrow!

Update: And now they have my pizza-stained resume.

Short names were originally implemented to maintain compatibility with programs that could only handle filenames in 8.3 format, meaning 8 characters, a dot, and a 3 character extension. This short name compatibility really bogs down the NTFS file system.

To disable the generation of short names, go to regedit and set

HKEYLOCALMACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/FileSystem/NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation

to 1.

This and similar registry keys are found in Windows XP, Vista, 2003, and perhaps other versions of Windows that use NTFS.

Setting the key doesn’t eliminate existing short names, but it does stop new ones from being created.

You’ll have to reboot for the changes to take effect.

In every DOS executable, there are the initials MZ. Mark Zbikowski - one of my Operating Systems teachers.

What does the NT stand for?
Officially(?): New Technology
Unofficially: No Tabs

Since the devs were all using different text editors, tabs in the source code were not interpreted identically. What would look like cleanly aligned code to one programmer might look like an exploded spaghetti bomb to another.

Therefore, tabs were forbidden in source code, hence the name, “No Tabs.”