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Good bye 2004, welcome 2005

Oh what a year this has been.



  • Smooth elections for two world’s biggest democracies (India & USA), Peace between India & Pakistan;

  • Worsening of Iraq Situation, Rise of Oil Prices;

But the year has ended with a sad note – with the terrible South Asian Tsunami claiming thousands of lives.


If you wish to help for the Tsunami victims you may contribute to Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers Public Relief Fund or India Prime Minister Relief Fund.


Anyways, let us all join in welcoming 2005 with open arms – hoping that will bring peace and prosperity to all.


Happy New Year 2005.

December 31st, 2004 | Category: Miscellanous | Leave a comment

Windows DLL Files – Meaning & Missing

Many times I was left scrambling to figure out, on what a particular DLL file does, its purpose or for god’s sake why does it even exist?. It will be good if we can have a central database of all DLL files (atleast the popular one’s).


And this is precisely what Microsoft’s DLL Help Database does. It is a database of all DLL files released with various products of Microsoft. Give it a search like ‘MSO9.DL’ and it comes back with this result page. Very useful, especially when you are debugging a fault or a bug.


As a related site, there is this 3rd Party site , which has a collection of hundreds of DLL files that you can download. Useful when a file is missing and you are not able to find the original source (CD). Since the site is not recognized by any of the leading software vendors, apply care before use.


 

December 31st, 2004 | Category: Tools | Leave a comment