SYMPTOMS You do a search via Google or Bing, you click a result…next thing you know, you are looking at some weird advertisement and the URL says “Fast-Find” or one of several other URLs including just freaky IP addresses. If you go back and click your search link again, it takes you to the expected […]
Google and Bing Search Redirects… try ComboFix Read More »
Hello – I know you can find free Split functions all over the web. But I wrote one anyway. I really like it. It is part of my search engine code which I might get around to sharing some day. The main reason I wrote this Split? Because I wanted to be able to
SQL Server Split Function Using Spaces as Delimiter Read More »
Go ahead and fire up SQL Server (I have 2008 R2) and type the following into a query window (c’mon, you know you wanna): PRINT LEN(‘ ‘) Now run it (F5). 0 That’s right, no matter how many space you put in, the length is 0. This has apparently been around a while and a
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OK, as usual I have to open with disclaimers: I am not a doctor, and this is all personal opinion. As this article shows, I also need to be more careful where I spray bug spray. I wrote this up for anyone who may ever wonder about the effects of ingesting a fairly small quantity
Raid Max (Imiprothrin and Deltamethrin) Shots? Count Me Out Read More »
You know… I used to work for GoDaddy. So, when a friend of mine sent this link, I had to watch (be warned: dead elephant is shown). Don’t worry, I tie this loosely into Easter at the end… I think…? Now, I am not exact a PETA zealot…but when their spokesperson was like,”Why not build
THE SUPER SHORT VERSION True, there is no SAFE level of radiation, but if I contract brain cancer, I am going to be looking angrily at my cell phone…or I might remember that day I visited the Star-ship Enterprise and mooned the dilithium crystals. That probably wasn’t my smartest maneuver. INTRO OK, for serious, I
Can Radiation from Japan Hurt Me? Read More »
I love it. My son has called me with the 3rd game he wants to sign up for on the computer. “This time I checked,” he said, “It says right on their site there are no viruses, no malware, and no spyware!” “Buddy,” I replied, “If I was going to write software that installed a
Stay Vigilent…When they can’t fool you, they go for your kids! Read More »
Bad News… OK, I read this post and it has me thoroughly pissed off… Basically neither SQL Server 2008 SP1 or SP2 are compatible with SQL Server 2008 R2. That is completely lame! I have work to get done, and I already lost an hour applying the Service Pack. Now, in order to attach my
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THE SETUP Pretend you want to open an app.config or web.config file. OK, normally, that is easy. But, let’s say you mange a bunch of config files, and you want to write a widget that can open any of them and edit them programmatically. That means opening a config file NOT part of your EXE
.NET Configuration File Madness Read More »
A friend in Arizona texted me when Giffords was shot on Saturday. I went to fire up Word Press, but then I stopped. I had no information. What was I going to say? Was I just going to catch the tag wave frenzy? That’s not my style, so I waited until there was more background
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