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I'm sure everyone has seen a miter joint that has opened up similar to the one in this image. I'd like to explain why this type of miter joint shrinkage happens so that you can try to avoid this unsightly problem.To understand this problem you first need to take a minute to understand how wood is "structured". It's easiest to think of wood being composed of lots of very small tubes all tightly pac

RSS has been a buzz-word for some time, but to many people it still remains just that - a word. This article explains what RSS is, what it can do for you, and its pitfalls and its advantages. More: continued here

We had technical difficulties today with our internet connection. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but there were workmen from the city digging large trenches in the yard where the cables are buried. I took the boys to the doctor in the early morning to make sure their ears were in good shape for the flights, and later I did have a very productive day of clothes-sorting when a friend offered

For FREE users: 1) No more captchas (no more annoying cats pictures to insert) 2) No more waiting between downloads. 3) Download speed are now approximately 100 kb/s. 4) You can upload files up to 200 mb (and not 100 as it was). 5) The waiting time is not longer than 1 minute. For PREMIUM users: 1) You can download 50 GB [...]

What Scale Is It? I often questioned about the scale of items. I have tried to answer as many questions as possible regarding these scales and their relationships to, mm conversions, fractions, train gauge and scale foot. Here's some beginner guide about what diecast scale is it.

Suddenly one of the employees in an organization took 10 days Leave without any notice. When he returned his PL asked for explanation. The employee said "Sir, my mom died unexpectedly". The PL let it go at that.After 3 months the same pattern repeated, and this time the said his father died.Then the PL got changed. After 3 months the same pattern repeated. And the employee gave the explanation tha

Well, I broke my blog. A little over a year of content has officially been lost. There’s nothing I can do about it except move on. I might go over to my Blogger blog to see if I can migrate some of that really old stuff over here but it may just not be [...]

The level aspect of Illinois topography has its explanation in the State's glacial history. As late as 25,000 years ago--a tick of the clock in geological time--there was still to be found in Illinois the last of the great ice sheets that had crept down from the North and with a leveling action comparable to that of a road-scraper, effaced hills and valleys carved by centuries of erosion. Ninety p

In the United States your Social Security number (SSN) consists of nine very important numbers. Some people receive their SSN as a baby, so that their parents may include them at income tax reporting time and others receive it when they get their first job. When an identity thief gets hold of an [...]

(If you do not normally read my blog, feel free to skip to the bottom of the post for the announcement). I'm back now, really back. And my first act is to clear up what these blog-barren weeks have been about. But maybe you've already guessed. Maybe if you didn't catch it the first time, you'll catch it the second time....It began in very early April when I wrote about Hope, about the strange

Atelectasis is defined as a state in which the lung, in whole or in part, is collapsed or without air. It is a condition where the alveoli are deflated, as distinct from pulmonary consolidation. Infant respiratory distress syndrome includes another type of atelectasis, and is described and discussed in its own article.The most common cause is post-surgical atelectasis, characterized by splinting,

It has been hard to not notice the movement and trading activity in Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT). This set up an alert for us over at VOLUME... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The disciplinary committee of OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm has found that OMX AB, listed on that exchange up to 2 May 2008, has contravened the exchange’s rules by failing to disclose information. The committee has decided that the company will be given a warning. The role of the disciplinary committee at OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm [...]

Kanya West West explained how their are three videos for "Flashing Lights" on his blog, kanyeuniversecity. He says that the first two videos were leaked and because he didn't like them, he decided to create a third one, which he loved. In our opinion, the third one is the best one. Check them all out here.

A loan granted to a borrower for paying off the existing loans and debts to credit card over arrears etc is debt consolidation. By choosing a debt consolidation loan when trapped with debt burden, as a borrower you get many advantages since it proves to be a real bonus with more benefits. Debt consolidation loans help you to overcome your financial crisis by allowing you to start by paying your de

I wrote a post here a month or two back chastising Christians for talking about beliefs instead of living out faith. I wrote it in a bitter and sarcastic mood when I was feeling downright volatile towards the Church (the “Church” being the universal body of believers). For that, I am sorry. For 22 years, I’ve been [...]

The next few lessons will try to break down the 'computer desktop' into sections. We will show you the different parts of the computer desktop, so you will know what they are and how you can use them!I think the most obvious portion of the desktop is your icons! Those little pictures that are spread all over your desktop with names under them! The basics for this lesson are pretty much the same

A week ago I said there will be no daily updates to this blog. That not means at all that the blog is to be closed. Only that there are too many things in my life and I had to put blog updates in lower priority.I wish to thank all the mails I received. I won't answer each one, much better an open post explaining why.My health is OK (most mails ask if I'm ill or something), in fact I feel much bett

Just over a month ago, we completed an exciting and important acquisition of the remaining equity in our drug discovery holding, ReceptoPharm.  Even though it has taken more than a year and a half since we first signed a letter of intent to acquire them, we are just as excited today as we were in [...]

It cannot be emphasized enough how important car insurance is. It is that layer of protection that protects you in the case you are in an accident with an uninsured driver or you are cited to be at fault for the accident. However, what it protects you from is being responsible for your own medical [...]

You may have read about the recent incident in which a client of the Social Insurance Institution, aka Kela—an insurer owned by the Finnish state—was presented with confidential medical insurance data of a complete stranger. This occurred as the client had logged into a Kela web service in order to view her own information. Kela [...]

Just after finishing with my exams,i promised myself to watch Television for the whole next day.In evening,with no episode or any soap with whom i could connect,i finally decided to watch Indian premiere league(IPL).So,the match started Between Mohali(Kings XI punjab) and delhi(delhi daredevils), and unexpectedly,to ruin my happy day,rain started pouring..i switched off the Television.After 1 hour

I know some that have looked at this didn't get my joke, but I have an extremely dry sense of humor, and I guess it is sometimes too dry. Therefore, I am going to tell you what I was getting at to help you understand my very dry sense of humor. I put only one button that had the page that I really wanted you to look at on this page. That button was the last one. It is called the "Platypus Prank"!

AT&T have finally spoken up on the puzzle of their on-again, off-again inclusive WiFi offer.  According to spokesperson Fletcher Cook, the posting of the offer on AT&T’s site was “a human error.”  However, it apparently echoes the carrier’s long-time intention to offer free WiFi to iPhone and other WiFi-equipped devices. “Our Wi-Fi network is a great [...]

Stock Market Cycles: A Practical Explanation# Author:Steven E. Bolten# Publisher: Quorum Books # Number Of Pages: 184 # Publication Date: 2000-05-30 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1567203205 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781567203202 Anyone who wants to understand stock market cycles and develop a focused, thoughtful, and solidly grounded valuation approach to the stock market must read this book. Bolten explains the causes and patterns of the cycles and identifies the causes of stock price changes. He identifies the sources of risks in the stock market and in individual stocks. Also covered is how the interaction of expected return and risk creates stock market cycles. Bolten talks about the industry sectors most likely to be profitable investments in each stage of the stock market cycles, while identif

A wife comes home early to find her husband in bed with a strange woman.She says, "That's it, I'm leaving & never coming back."He says, "Don't you at least want to hear my explanation?"She shrugs & says, "Fine, let's hear your story. This had better be good!"He says, "Well, I'm driving along the street, when I see this young lady in torn clothes, no shoes, all muddy & crying. I took pity on her and asked if she would like to get cleaned up in my house. She climbed into my truck and I brought her home. She took a shower, I gave her the underwear that doesn't fit you anymore, the silk blouse and slacks that I bought you 2 years ago that you wore once, the $150 Nike running shoes you bought & wore only twice. I gave her some of the leftover roast beef from the fridge that has

"While twittering is fun and simple, it is tough if you were to explain the concept of twitter to someone who has never heard of this service before. The Common Craft team did a good job of explaining twitter in plain English with their stop-motion videos but here’s a even simpler explanation from Bill Thompson that he shared on BBC radio."[via digital inspiration]

Kollywood’s protest on Karnataka’s stance on the Hogenakkal issue, witnessed a huge turnout. Almost all the biggies in Kollywood, including Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan made it to the event, except a few who could not make it due to short notice and prior commitments.Although the absentees were asked to give an explanation for their absence, Asin seemed to have ignored it. Having given the actress enough notice, the Nadigar Sangam planned to initiate action against her. Meanwhile, the Malabar beauty has sent a letter of apology stating that her commitment as the brand ambassador of a popular brand forbade her from partaking in the fasting.She also gave an assurance that this would not happen in future. With the letter arriving on time the actress seems to have emerged unscathed this ti

Are you sick and tired of hearing about keywords, keyword optimization, keyword stuffing, keyword ratio and more? Why all the hype about keywords? What do they really do for a business? Keywords are important plain and simple. They are the words customers, potential customers and website visitors might use in a search engine to find [...]

When interviewed for Instant Native recently I was asked for a travel tip and I admit my first impulse was to draw on the usual suggestions travel writers make like 'travel light', 'select your seats ahead of departure' and 'email the hotel with an ETA to ensure the champagne's on ice' (that last one's is mine). They're things I forget to do, am too busy to do, or simply can't do (I'm sorry, but

A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing toLeave the examination room and said, 'Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side.' Very quietly, the doctor said, 'I don't... Visit for more....

Hey penguins! I know I have been away for ages, but I'll get to that a bit later in the post. Anyway TONS of stuff has happened in CP over the weekend but I missed it all and I'm sure you know about it anyway. But Mission 7 is now out and it's awesome! It turns out that Herbert the Bear is behind the Clock Tower disturbances, and you have to find the parts to fix the Clock Tower! It's actually fairly easy, I think the hardest was Mission 5. It's a lot of fun! At the end Herbert calls you can says that this was only a distraction to his "master plan." I wonder what that could be? I guess we'll just have to wait until the next mission then! I won't do a guide, but there are tones around so check out Team Club Penguin Cheats, or Nick's Site. Have fun!Also, the parties were postponed last week

Product Description Philosophical ideas about the mind, brain, and behavior can seem theoretical and unimportant when placed alongside the urgent questions of mental distress and disorder. However, there is a need to give direction to attempts to answer these questions. On the one hand a substantial research effort in going into the investigation of brain processes and the development of drug

Super quick!The gist I get is that the system is unnecessarily complex, but definitely can be boiled down to a simple question of who has the most money.Money can get you behavioral experts who coach you to be the person the citizens love. Money can pay for surgery and haircuts. Money gets you signs, ad time, good directors and actors for those ads, and maybe even undercover actors seeded among the citizenry in an effort to persuade the unsure.[Candidate gets an idea from reading this -- "That's it! Covert political agents..."]

BY TERRY CARTER* Lonely Planet placed a statement on their website in response to Kohnstamm's claims. This is how I read it: LP: “Thomas claims that during his time as a travel author, he skipped visiting certain destinations, plagiarised from other sources and traded good reviews for in-kind favours.” Skipping destinations? Plagiarism? This is the first time this has ever happened! I do love ‘

Any wood worker knows that it is all about the bit when working with a router table. It is the bit choice that will give you definition, shape and design you want. Router tables have always been as core tool for woodworking, but many handymen are starting to see its use as well. More: [...]

News sources like to use the term "credit crunch" in describing the U.S. economy, but they rarely define what a credit crunch is and what it means for Americans.  A credit crunch is when the amount of available loans suddenly decreases over a very short period of time. Usually, it follows a period of lending which, in hindsight, becomes known for its "easy money".  The start of a credit crunch often coincides with consumer loans starting to go bad and lenders losses starting to mount.  The realization that more losses are ahead forces lending institutions to tightening their respective lending guidelines. Since the current credit crunch began in mid-2007, Americans looking for credit now face: Higher credit score requirements on auto loan applications Higher f

As a Christian who sees the Holy Bible as the complete word of God, I have been racking my brain to try to figure out how a pastor could take the Holy Bible and twist it to support separatism, racism and some of the other downright Godless beliefs adopted to by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, IL. The problem was that I was not looking past the authority the Church claims to use.Ryan Lizza wrote an article about Barack Obama's unlikely political education for the New Republic last year that gave insight to the spiritual past and education of the group.After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright's church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for "Buppies"--bl

The Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology (FPT) gives explanations to floor price trading in five consecutive days from March 18 to March 24, 2008. The company business activities are still normal and the company is effectively operating and posting high growth. Net revenue in 2007 reached VND13,499... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Orphans 6 (Orphan Film Symposium, 6th iteration) kicked off officially this morning in the Cantor Film Center. Richard Allen, the Chair of NYU Cinema Studies, introduced organizer and faculty member Dan Streible by saying all kinds of nice things about him, including holding up Streible's new book, Fight Pictures, and reading passages from Charles Musser's introduction. If you've been following along in previous posts, I am Streible's spouse, and I am sometimes known as the "orphan widow."Because Streible spends an unreal amount of time preparing for Orphan events, I came up with this witticism to describe my status. I'm actually listed in the official program that way. I really haven't felt much like the widow at all for Orphans 6, however, probably because he's often at home and on the c

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Susan McHan, CEO & President of Opes Advisors, a Bay Area wealth management company specializing in mortgage banking and investment advising, was recently interviewed on ABC7’s The View From The Bay on the current mortgage & real estate environment. This is a great take on where we are in the real estate and mortgage markets (locally, [...]

Book Description ISBN-0262193558 Does action always arise out of desire? G. F. Schueler examines this hotly debated topic in philosophy of action and moral philosophy, arguing that once two senses of “desire” are distinguished - roughly, genuine desires and pro attitudes - apparently plausible explanations of action in terms of the agent’s desires can be seen to [...]

Big foot is one of the more creatures in the cryptozoology. Cryptozoologist John Willison Green has postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.Indian Native tribes in the Northwest note the appearance of large creatures they call Sasquatch. Such creatures were said to exist on Vancouver Island and near Harrison Lake.The name "Big Foot" inspired by the media when enormous footprints were reported in Humboldt County by roadworkers in 1958 as they believed it was a track of the creature.Big Foot ExplanationBig Footbigfoot

In the 1970’s and 80’s Solar Energy first emerged as a potentially viable and cost-effective alternative to traditional heating sources such as fuel oil, natural gas, coal, wood, and electric. Unfortunately, these first generation solar collectors were expensive, inefficient, and delivered long payback periods and lower returns on the initial investment than expected. More: continued [...]

Scatting is an art, I believe. When done live with a piano accompanyment, it goes beyond the virtually invisible boundary of art to becoming unexplainable. Unexplainable to me at least.Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin.

Sad day yesterday.  I had to remove the cool 8 ball attachment from the shifter in my car.  This, obviously, downgraded the car’s coolness factor to “cool,” due to the fact that I still have my fuzzy dice hanging on the rear view.  It had been “bitchin’” with the 8 ball gearshift cover, and I was [...]

Third party car insurance offers you cover for any claim made against you, your driver if somebody else was driving or the registered owner of the vehicle. The road traffic act specifies that you are required to have a certain minimum amount of cover. All UK car insurance policies providing "third party cover" or more, will provide greater protection than the law requires. Whether you just have "third party only", "third party fire and theft" or "comprehensive" you will have this section.If you are to blame for causing an accident your insurer will pay for all sums of money that are awarded to those people (the third party) that you have killed or injured, or whose property you have damaged etc. This includes any legal costs incurred by either the victim's or your own solicitors.This whol

SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition and Development Edition supports mirrored backup. Mirroring a media set increases backup reliability by adding redundancy of backup media which effectively reduces the impact of backup-device failing. While taking backup of database, same backup is taken on multiple media or locations. T-SQL code to take Mirrored Backup : BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks TO DISK = 'c:AdventureWorksBackup.bak' MIRROR TO DISK = 'd:AdventureWorksBackupCopy.bak' WITH FORMAT; Above script will create two backups at two different locations, if backup of one location is currepted backup from another location will work fine. Reference : Pinal Dave (http://www.SQLAuthority.com)

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actually, i have a logical (and illogical) explanation regarding my previous post. the logical - i can blog about; the illogical - uhm, id rather keep it to myself, hope u dont mind, heheheu see, when i woke up this morning, i had this strong feeling of anxiety. i had a bad dream. not the "monstrous, scream til ur lungs fell out" kind of bad dream tho. just the "normal/typical slap me til u break my neck" kind of thing. cant go into details but let me tell u one thing: it felt like a premonition. and its work-related. oh shake me pweeeease!and so, the OC in me tried to search for a reason:why oh why do i have to experience such? they say,if u think too much of a certain thing,the odds most likely is,ul bring it til u go to sleep.i wasnt thinkin at all.the next theory is,if u ate too much of a certain somethin(may it be a specific dish or junkies, it really doesnt matter for as long as its edible),the odds as mentioned above is,ul bring it til u close ur eyes andjourney to the la la lan

On-line currency trade explanation advantageBecause the rapid advance in technology and ever-changing economical plot world, retain a currency exchange rate the scheduling symbol in the dip and the escalate is basic. Besides, a profit sign is decided from the currency trade to the important decision is made. Each has definitely made to order when is a reason which the foreign currency trade market part can be is beneficial or loses immediately. They according to all decisions are made are decided by theinformation reliability. You need to have can affect the foreign exchange market as soon as possible the reliable information.Today, you lose and gain trade in the currency moreover not only finish change extremely or are wealthy or you participate in all losses the trade business rank. Because the Forex market is the opening for trades for day 24 hours with each week 5 days, trade business can assign the time visits their forex trade account. Besides, the currency transaction speed is m

Manufacturing the Nib Today, pen nibs are produced by mass flow production. The process can be broken down into several stages. 1. The gold ingot is rolled to 10 to 20mm thick, dependant on the thickness required by the manufacturer. The ingot is annealed to ensure the nib is flexible. It is re-rolled to a thickness of [...]

The Development of the Fountain Pen The period 1880 to 1900 saw many fountain pen inventions. Most of these were not practical, but over 400 Patents were granted. The first practical and workable version of the fountain pen was designed by an American salesman, Lewis E Waterman. To sign a valuable contract Waterman decided not to [...]

The Development of the Reservoir The different ways in which reservoirs were filled proved to be one of the most competitive areas in the pen industry. Several different patents were issued as each designer sought different ways in which to fill the reservoir: * 1903, THE SELF-FILLING PISTON The self-filling piston replaced the re-loading eyedropper.

Early Fountain Pens Pens manufactured in metal were known in Classical times, but were rarely used. For example, a bronze pen was found in the ruins of Pompeii. The 16th century Spanish calligrapher, Juan de Yciar in his 1548 Writing Manual, mentioned using brass pens. At this time, wealthy individuals owned pens with gold or silver [...]

From many introductory about fountain pen mechanism, this is one of the most special one. Please enjoy. For many people, the fountain pen is the most sophisticated pen to use. There is something very sensual about writing with a pen that uses liquid ink. Indeed, when writing with a fountain pen, the nib seems to positively [...]

DBCC CHECKDB checks the logical and physical integrity of all the objects in the specified database. If DBCC CHECKDB ran on database user should not run DBCC CHECKALLOC, DBCC CHECKTABLE, and DBCC CHECKCATALOG on database as DBCC CHECKDB includes all the three command. Usage of these included DBCC commands is listed below. DBCC CHECKALLOC - Checks the consistency of disk space allocation structures for a specified database. DBCC CHECKTABLE - Checks the integrity of all the pages and structures that make up the table or indexed view. DBCC CHECKCATALOG - Checks for catalog consistency within the specified database. The database must be online. Along with above three DBCC commands it also runs following two tasks to check the validity database (physical as well logical) i.e. validates the contents of every indexed view in the database and Validates the Service Broker data in the database. If database DBCC check has returned any errors, the best solution is to RESTORE DATABASE from BACKUP.

Gayatri is the embodiment of all forms of Godhead- "Sarva Devatha Swaroopam."Gayatri does not belong to any caste, to any sect or to any religion as such.It is universal in its scope.Gayatri has nine important attributes. These are:1. Aum Sound as the basis of Creation, Brahman.2. Bhuh The Earth, the gross.3. Bhuvah The Atmosphere, the Ether, the Subtle.4. Suvah Heaven, the region beyond Bhuvah the Causal.5. Tat Stands for That. The Ultimate Realityis simply referred to as That becauseit defies description through speech or language.6. Savitur Stands for Divine Savitri, equatedwith the vivifying power containedwithin the Sun.7. Varenyum Adore.8. Bhargo Radiance, Lustre, Illumination.9. Devasya Divine Radiance or Grace."Dheemahi" signifies worship of or meditation on the Lord. "Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat" as the last syllable, is a prayer. Therefore, in the Gayatri, there is Varnam, Dhyanam and Prathana (description, meditation and a prayer) these aspects converge in the Manthra.

Gayatri is the embodiment of all forms of Godhead- "Sarva Devatha Swaroopam."Gayatri does not belong to any caste, to any sect or to any religion as such.It is universal in its scope.Gayatri has nine important attributes. These are:1. Aum Sound as the basis of Creation, Brahman.2. Bhuh The Earth, the gross.3. Bhuvah The Atmosphere, the Ether, the Subtle.4. Suvah Heaven, the region beyond Bhuvah the Causal.5. Tat Stands for That. The Ultimate Realityis simply referred to as That becauseit defies description through speech or language.6. Savitur Stands for Divine Savitri, equatedwith the vivifying power containedwithin the Sun.7. Varenyum Adore.8. Bhargo Radiance, Lustre, Illumination.9. Devasya Divine Radiance or Grace."Dheemahi" signifies worship of or meditation on the Lord. "Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat" as the last syllable, is a prayer. Therefore, in the Gayatri, there is Varnam, Dhyanam and Prathana (description, meditation and a prayer) these aspects converge in the Manthra.

Business Intelligence Business intelligence is a method of storing and presenting key enterprise data so that anyone in your company can quickly and easily ask questions of accurate and timely data. Effective BI allows end users to use data to understand why your business go the particular results that it did, to decide on courses of action based on past data, and to accurately forecast future results. Data Warehouse A single structure that usually, but not always, consists of one or more cubes. Data Mart A defined subset of a data warehouse, often a single cube from a group. It represents one business unit. Cube A storage structure used by classic data warehousing products in place of many. Cube usually present data that is aggregated, rather than each individual item. Cubes present a summarized, aggregated view of enterprise data, as opposed to normalized table sources that present detailed data. Decision Support System The term’s broad definition can mean anything from a read

No, I am not going to delve into every aspect of the Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty Story, but I will attempt to defend this highly criticized story. The big deal with MGS2 is two-fold: 1- You play the majority of the game as Raiden and not Snake and 2- The ending/VR thing with Raiden at the end makes little sense. The reason for the confusion and ambiguity - PostModernism. Postmodernism is blatantly present throughout Metal Gear Solid 2. Largely influenced by the disillusionment induced by the WW2, postmodernism tends to refer to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, and interconnectedness or interreferentiality. Now having a nonsensical plot is not an argument for PostModernism, but take for instance the ambiguity of Raiden himself. Raiden is a character in MGS2, but we also learn that he has played through VR missions and Shadow Moses (or MGS1) a

So for the interested the above is the incident I have been referring to. Our toilet became completely blocked as Thursday and due to us having had recently had work carried out on the drain we got the same company out to sort it. The emergency plumber didn’t quite grasp the situation and did not turn up until 5 pm Friday, when he did he tried everything I had already done. I remained calm. Even when he put the toilet in the bath, I was calm - after all he was going to put it back right? However when he said he was going to place a jet wash into the soil pipe, the pipe we had proved was already full of water, and I could just claim back for a new ceiling (a ceiling that had only gone back up that day) that I got annoyed. Words were exchanged. And my toilet was left in my bath. It’s back in the right place now. I was going to be witty but to be honest I still can’t see the funny side on this one, it took four days to get a toilet working again, time during which we&r

Microsoft has turned off all the potential features of SQL Server 2005 that could be susceptible to security risks and hacker attacks. Many features of SQL Server 2005 i.e. xp_cmdshell, DAC etc comes disabled by default, this makes the vulnerable surface area less visible to potential attacks. The Surface Area Configuration tool provides DBAs with a single, easy-to-use method of configuring external security of SQL Server. Use SQL Server Surface Area Configuration to enable, disable, start, or stop the features, services, and remote connectivity of your SQL Server 2005 installations. You can use SQL Server Surface Area Configuration on local and remote servers. Following are the features of the SQL Server Surface Area Configuration Tool, which can be turned on and off as needed by application. Analysis Services Features Ad-hoc Data Mining Queries Anonymous Connections Linked Objects User-Defined Functions Database Engine Features Ad-hoc Remote Queries CLR Integration Database Mail H