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Today I ordered Apple 15″ Macbook Pro which costed me ~2100$ as I went ahead with Apple Employee Purchase Program (EPP), which gave me extra 15% off of the original price. Last week I brought Dell Lattitude D820 and it arrived in 3 days and noticed few things are not working out of box, so I have to return it back immediately and opted for a Mac. As this is my first ever Mac movement; and need to figure out a way to explore all of the features that Mac offers.

For sure I need to either use BootCamp or Parallels to have my Windows Vista running on the mac, so that I can run Visual Studio from Vista. Also, am bit surprised to see that MacBook pro 15″ is not offering 7200 RPM disk instead am getting only 5600 RPM; and only 17″ one does offer 100GB disk which has 7200 RPM; thats a bad deal;

When I got the order tracking information, noticed that the Mac is actually shipped from SHANGHAI, China instead of from USA….hhh…

From today 23rd April to 26th April, I will be attending MySQL 2007 users conference and expo in Santa clara. Mainly focussing on MySQL 5.x and HA related topics and to meet old MySQL fellow employees.

For some reason since few months; I never been successful in establishing a remote connection to Windows Vista Ultimate using ‘Remote Desktop’. Whenever I try to connect, it actually connets to Vista by logging in; but once I press any key afterwards; the connection closes with a error message “the remote session was disconnected due to another user has connected to the session”. And nobody else is connected to the system other than me as am sitting infront of that system.

But I never had this issue with Windows XP as I always used to take over the session either remotely or connected to the console on that system.

I downloaded and installed the new ‘Remote desktop client‘ on my XP; and still no luck with similar error.

After a while; I thought I will create a new dummy user in my Vista, so that I can use that user instead of the user who uses over the console. So, I created a new user and used that user to connect from remote desktop client; and this time it worked out well, even though I might be using a different user and profile; but it forced to connect by disconnecting the console user…something that works for time being. Need to see how to force the same user to connect as I did in case of XP

Today, I tried to use my gmail after a long time to store some of my important old mails. I attached a zip file of size ~120MB which has all documents. Initially I forgot the total mail size allowed by gmail, and found later that it only allows a max of 10 MB as the message size including any attachments.

So, atleast I was expecting a nice user friendly error like Mail size exceeded, reduce the size; instead it gave an annoy error message with error code 008 and asked to try again as shown below:

Which ofcourse does not have any meaning to end user nor it is telling what needs to be done; instead asking user to try again; and up on retry; you get the same error…..and never ending

I am trying to test how I can link videos to my site as I am unsuccessful from Yahoo! Video due to various reasons. Lets see if it works, so that I can share some files.

Today, I just had a chance to preview the new Beta Yahoo! web messenger, which is yet to release to public. At first glance, no doubt it will rock in coming days as this is the next generation application; Kudos to the team who is working hard on this.

The major positive points of this new web based messenger is:

• Web interface, and its portable. You can use it any where in the world as long as there is a internet with a decent browser.
• Slick design
• Support for both Yahoo! and Windows Live contacts
• Online history of all the conversations
• Complete contact view that you see in your regular messenger based on groups, sorting on top of it either by name. You can also view only online contacts.
• Search capabilities on Contacts and History, which is a great handy feature for people who needs to dig something back in the history.

These are the features that I wish to have:

• Support of multiple themes
• Customization to allow different font size, type and color
• Support for conference or group chat
• Contact aliasing and alias chat
• Wap or mobile browsers support
• Easy file transfer mechanism
• Highlighting a message based on filtering
• Option to save conversation or history to local file
• Options to enable or disable notifications (regular message or audio) for a new message or based on a filter on a perticular word (like irc/mirc does)
• E-mail, Calender etc notification

Here is the few screen shots:

Welcome Signin Screen:	Intro Screen:
Logged In Screen:	History: