GRID computing, in the sense of distributed computing with a focus on large-scale resource sharing and high performance computing Below are links to several  projects that lets you create Grids using the .NET platform:

MS.NETGrid - An open source .NET implementation of  Open Grid Services Architecture and Infrastructure
OGSI.NET - Another open source implementation of the same standard
Alchemi.NET - Yet another open-source project - this time a part of the GridBus project

[Via Cirrus Minor blog]

The June 2005 release of Enterprise Library is a minor update of the original January 2005 release. This release contains the same seven Microsoft patterns
& practices application blocks, and it incorporates the patches and extensions previously released to the Enterprise Library Community site. In addition, it includes several minor fixes and improvements.

Download it from here

[Via Tom Hollander's blog]

PowerPoint slides from Team System breakout sessions at TechEd 2005

List of PowerPoint slides related to VSTS:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Managing the Software Lifecycle
  with Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Building Robust and Reliable
  Software
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Enabling Better Software through
  Better Testing
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Advanced Project Management and
  Reporting in Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Maximizing Collaboration with
  Team Foundation Server
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Enterprise-Class Source Control
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Using Visual Studio 2005 Team
  System to Support Your Agile Processes
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects Overview
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects:
  Developing Service-Oriented Systems
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects:
  Developing Logical Datacenters
• Domain Specific Language Tools for Model-Driven Development in Microsoft
  Visual Studio 2005
• Team Development with SQL Server 2005

"After setting it up on your browser, you simply type "gim porsche 911" to do a Google ImageSearch for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type "random 49" to
return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of random.org. And best of all, you can make a new command by giving YubNub an appropriate URL."

Read more on JonAquino’s blog

KDiff3 is a program that

• Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories
• Shows the differences line by line and character by character (!)
• provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for
  comfortable solving of merge-conflicts
• Supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs
• Supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.)
• Has an intuitive graphical user interface
• Free

[Via Darrell Norton's Blog ]