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It looks like the OLPC project could have an impact, with software this simple, interesting and powerful:

From ted.com

So you’d think that uploading a file using the standard FileUpload control would be easy. Well there is a small problem. Using the following code you would expect ‘filename’ to contain just the filename of the file uploaded.

String filename;
filename = FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName;

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Paging results from an SQL query can sometimes be quite difficult. MySQL has for a long time supported ‘LIMIT x,y’ to aid this, however with Microsoft SQL it has always been a bit more difficult. With MS SQL 2005 thing are a little easier. Try the snippet below, based on the AdventureWorks sample database included with SQL 2005.
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