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J has been learning some of the newer Microsoft technologies, such as XAML. Part of his ongoing endeavors is a writing Craigslist parser and viewer. Without having to go through the website, he found someone in town who was selling server racks at 10-20% of their retail price.
The seller’s story is that his workplace [...]

One of the more prolific trolls on Channel9, under the pseudonym ‘Shooby’, posted some flamebait today. The post was so inarticulate and poorly thought-out that I felt I had to respond.
His initial Post, sans irrelevant cannabis-induced meanderings:
Top 10 things Windows is better at than Linux
10 making you feel like you are a slave to the [...]

I ran a traffic analysis today and must say, I like the results. Stats are for the dates of 07/14/07 19:40:19 through 10/16/07 17:09:55. All stats have had internal addresses (hits from me) filtered out, so this is pure external data.
General
Total Hits: 103,697
Avg Hits/Day: 987
Avg Hits/IP: 3.87
Total Page Views: 29,656
Avg Views/Day: 282
Avg Views/IP: 1.11
Total Sessions: [...]

I struggled with this problem for the better part of a day. The problem is this: I had a Page that needed to push a ZIP file out to a User, programatically, based on information acquired from SQL. Normally this would be fairly simple, but the file isn’t on the web server, and it can’t [...]

Tomorrow is the end of the Development cycle for my (big, fancy, secret) project at work. I ran into some interesting complications and learned a few things in the process:
1. How to write a Windows Service
2. Windows Services don’t like regular winform timers, you have to use a System.Timers.Timer(). Otherwise, it’ll compile and run, but [...]

Just a quick tip for the Googlers out there who find themselves with as empty a search page as I was. If you’re developing a .NET application using a 3rd-party library to access a DB2 database, sucks to be you.
Anyway, when calling a stored procedure on the DB2 server, you may get a DB2Exception reading [...]

Let me begin by saying I am a power user, and as such many things in my environment are different from a lower breed of user. My Vista system has six monitors and some of the best DDR2 RAM money can buy. I have a server at home with nearly 4TB of total storage.
I’m an [...]

Geez, there are alot of services in Windows Vista that just help themselves to an automatic startup…
Tablet PC Input Service: It’s not a tablet PC. Why, then, do you assume I would want the services of a Tablet PC input device I don’t have? Seriously.
Diagnostic Policy Service and Diagnostic System Host: Both “enable problem detection, [...]

Lots of us have old computers that sit around collecting dust, or possibly even plugged in and running, “Just in case”. Lots of us have Comcast and are thus aware of the Unreliable Nature of Comcast. When you fall into both categories, I suggest you take it upon yourself to implement a monitoring system similar [...]

Last time we spoke regarding my intermittent Internet connectivity issues through Comcast, we were waiting for an LMC escalation to occur from any of the Contact Line ASAP Customers on my Node. Lo and behold, I ended up being the one to complain.
I called Call Center Supervisor Kieth when my connection dropped this afternoon. In [...]