Word rapidly spread through the office that the local Microcenter was having a huge book sale blowout, selling such great titles as ASP.Net in a nutshell and C# in a nutshell for 4.99. So, after work, I trooped down there and took a look. Unfortunately, my impatience got the best of me on this particular evening, so I only saw one table to discount books. I ended up with the following list:
Plus, they had a switch that was free after rebates, so I picked it up; now to remember to send the rebate form in. Some friends and I get together semi-regularly (and once Dave finishes up his training, more regularly) to play ages of empires II on my lan. I usually disconnect my router upstairs and bring it down for us (one of the laptops doesn't have a wireless card, so we can't rely on that), and I can't seem to find my old router. Now, though, I can just plug this switch in and all the machine will be hard-wired. Plus, if I plug a hub into one of the ports, it will detect it and make that port an uplink, so I can expand on the crazy off chance that I end up with a bunch of people over at my house playing.
I've started reading the Troubleshooting SQL, and it seems okay, so far. Here's my favorite line, so far:
“No one in their right mind will let you experiment on a production database server in this fashion. First, crashing the server, a realistic possibility while troubleshooting, is not popular among those who need to provide data on a 24x7 basis.”