I found this nice command line tool of Microsoft's that will make a patch file by comparing two files which can be used with their command line patching tool to create the 2nd file.  This works great for patching an executable that is large.

The patcher works on Windows XP without the SDK installed.  But the SDK must be installed to get the command line tools you need.

The command line tools you will need from the SDK are called mpatch and apatch and are in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform\SDK\Samples\SysMgmt\Msi\Patching.

Here is the download:  Platform SDK


I found this by reading this blog entry.

I tracked down where the nightly builds are.  At one point I was downloading the source code and compiling it myself... but there's no need:

http://dasblog.info/dbftp/

This is a Visual Studio 2003 error that i have received.

To fix this...

1. In the Internet Explorer, select the "Tools" Menu, then select "Internet Options".

2. Select the "Security" Tab in the new window.

3. Select the "Internet" globe icon.

4. Click the "Custom Level..." button at the bottom.

5. Locate the "User Authentication" section (it is at the bottom in IE7).

6. Select "Automatic logon with current username and password".

7. Click "Ok" twice to complete.

Yahoo recently debuted it's thrid social bookmarking service... Yahoo Bookmarks

They already have My Web, Del.icio.us and the new Bookmarks beta will supercede thei standard Yahoo Bookmarks.

I'm not sure what Yahoo has up their sleeves for these three but it appears that the New Bookmarks has quite a bit of overlap with both My Web and Del.icio.us.

I had to turn off the trackback service in my blog today.  I am just getting too much trackback spam.