Note: Double-click top border of Task Manager to get your tabs back! I used to joke with people that some day computers would need psychologists to help diagnose their problems. I think it is actually going to happen, though, because now, more than ever, computers are behaving inconsistently. I can have 2 identically configured systems that behave […]
Computers are Getting Weirder Read More »
So I had to make this video. It was a moral and scientific imperative… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQihXKoDSk] There. having made this video makes me a stronger, happier person.
Hey, it wasn’t my idea… but maybe it coulda been, if I would’ve been a smarter entrepreneur! Anyway, I was just helping my daughter ship some boxes at the UPS Store in Castle Rock, when this couple starts wheeling in stacks of jars. This clandestine moment was my introduction to Kay Wolfe, the owner of
Bacon Jam (or TSA Bacon Jam Carry-On Restrictions) Read More »
Yeah, the title kinda sums up my experience trying out a BlackBerry PlayBook. Maybe it is a bit unfair an assessment, but reality can be a harsh judge. FOSE 2010 I didn’t have time to attend the whole expo, but I made time to attend ONE of the free classes – I wanted to see
BlackBerry PlayBook Paperweight Read More »
Back in 2010, I was searching for ASP.NET controls for our team. One member of our group had used oBout and said they were inexpensive and effective. He was right… for an enterprise license, they are extremely inexpensive. And, as long you didn’t try to do too much with them, they could be quite effective.
Goodbye oBout, Hello DevExpress Read More »
OK, so I was at work and tried save a web-conference event to my Outlook calendar. This was denied. It got me thinking… really? So denying folks from saving stuff to their calendar must be saving us from some HUGE security hole, through which hackers could destroy the very tubes that make up the internet!!
Stopping the Hackers Read More »
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 »
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 »
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
SQL Server 2008 version 661 and 662 Read More »
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 »
