I want an XBox 360. I asked my local Electronics Boutique, and they’re saying if I preorder now I might get one in January. I’ve mentioned before that I think it’s generally a bad idea to preorder and I’m thinking that’s true in this case as well. Wal-Mart will be open at 8am on November […]
Anyone remember the war between Microsoft and IBM over aggregation versus inheritance? It was basically the COM vs CORBA war. The Workplace Shell in OS/2 was based on inheritance – if you wanted to extend the shell, you subclassed one of the shell objects and overrode functions. Explorer, in Windows, being based on COM, went […]
Amazon recently introduced Mechanical Turk, a site that automates the process of taking work that only humans can do well (like judge the quality of a photograph) and paying users to do that work. Anyone can log in, spend some time ranking photographs and make a few bucks. I want this as a Visual Studio […]
This is the announcement I’ve been waiting for. Too bad it’s still a year away. CableCARD is to cable what a SIM card is to a cellular phone. It identifies you to the network, so the network can authorize services for you. This means instead of having to buy a Rogers box to hook up to […]
For a while I’ve been wondering why my computer is so slow… and sometimes seemed to just freeze up for no apparent reason. I always just chalked it up to thrashing before, but this system has 2 gig of RAM so that really didn’t seem likely. Today, I ran across this article by Mark Russinovich […]
I have a number of websites that I run. One of them, the Restaurant Thing website, gets a lot of traffic and has quite a few outside links to it. Another, the Ottawa Events site, has no links to it save the ones on this very blog, and it’s not linked to very much, so in Google’s […]
It’s disappointing to see Dare say that RSS Bandit would stay as a .NET Framework 1.1 application for at least a year, maybe two. Why do I want RSS Bandit to be a .NET 2.0 application? I’m not exactly sure. It’s probably similar to the reason that people wanted Win32 apps when Windows 95 was […]
live.com looks like start.com, except that start.com work in Firefox and live.com does not.
I did run into a problem migrating the Ottawa Events site. I didn’t notice it until I tried to log in: Procedure or function aspnet_Membership_GetPasswordWithFormat has too many arguments specified The database that holds the membership information, which is managed by ASP.NET, needed upgrading. The aspnet_regsql tool will do this, without disturbing your existing data.
I migrated the Ottawa Events site from the beta over to the release version of the framework, with almost no problems. Almost: There was an attribute in the web.config file, that the new version didn’t recognize, and it gave an error loading the site. The offending node was: <add extension=”.rdlc” type=”Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.RdlBuildProvider, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a” […]