So guess what that picture is of? It's of my iPod Video running Linux, skinned to match Vista Media Player :)

Not only can I play MP3 and videos, I can play OGG Vorbis and FLAC on my ipod now.

Rockbox is a SUPER easy install on a huge variety of media players. It's best supported on this iPod video, but also works on other ipods, sansa devices, archos, etc.

http://www.rockbox.org/

What does this have to do with Sharepoint? Well, at least when clients ask why I'm carrying an iPod instead of a Zune, I can show that I'm not really supporting Apple either :)

Today I was having a terrible time with SQL reporting services default values for a multi-value parameter on my report.

I haven't been able to track down the root cause, but it seems a little tweaking to the query that selects the options will usually fix it.

For instance, try adding a rtrim or ltrim around the field when selected in the query.

Before:

select distinct option from options

And After:

select distinct rtrim(option) as option  from options

This seems to help in most cases.  If it doesn't, try performing a lower/upper on the string, or a replace on whitespaces.

I'll be interested to hear peoples feedback on this!

Myself and several others are in the process of launching a new site, Xmilk.com

Our goal is to build a forum/community around Home Media, including Windows media center, MythTV, MediaTomb, homebrew DVR, Upnp, etc.

We've also got a few people that are blogging here on these subjects.

Please take a look, check out the forums, the blogs, and help us build this community!  If your interested in blogging on a Home Media subject there, let me know and we'll get you setup.

http://xmilk.com

An amazingly useful little tool to let you export and re-import those custom profile properties across your testing/dev servers.  Makes deployment much easier.

And you thought this was another sharepoint tool you'd have to write by hand?

http://www.codeplex.com/MOSSProfileReplicate/

Also, for managed and crawled properties, check here:

http://www.keirgordon.com/2007/01/export-import-managed-and-crawled.html

Banners hanging this morning on the Redmond campus, Building 118, marking the launch of the Office Communications Server. Caught a picture on my phone through the rain.


Check out the Microsoft Unified Communication site to learn more about this awesome technology.

http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx