I recently downloaded a Vista clock gadget. It is kind of nice, but as with most things claiming to a binary clock, it really is not one. I am bothered by ThinkGeek's binary clocks as well as pretty much all of others I've seen. Don't mistake me here I love the nerdniness factor. They are quite amazing devices to marvel your friends with. The ...

Disclaimer: This post is not about security. Is anyone else bothered by Information titled with the word security? Let me explain what it is I am referring to. I will see an article, a blog post, or a section on a web site which claims to be about ''security.'' I will of course be quite interested when I see this, because I think security is very ...

A while back I blogged about how to install sql server management studio, and it got a reasonable amount of feedback. More recently, Steve Smith posted a response to it where he highlights a better way of installing Management Studio. The method I outlined doesn't seem to work in every instance, so in his response Steve supplied a method which ...

So I haven't had a lot of problems with Vista. There have been some slight issues including this one I blogged about recently. I think windows DreamScene is very cool, but I of course of more than one monitor attached to my computer. Okay, I can understand that they might have difficulty displaying the DreamScene video on both monitors, but not ...

So I've been using Vista 32 for a while now. I've not had much trouble with it. I've not seen the horrors about which others speak. Perhaps now my eyes have opened a little bit to some of the problems. So while installing Windows Vista 64 on a machine, the installer said it needed a driver for the CD/DVD device. So at this point I am a bit ...

A few weeks ago I upgraded a site using XtraReports to a newer version. I upgraded from 7.1.3.0 to 7.3.6.0 (not a major revision update) and the results were simply amazing. Looking at the version number I would assume that no major changes were made, so upgrading the software should be quite simple right? No, there were plenty of breaking changes ...

So I have been ignoring these messages I've been receiving for a while about Silverlight. Now I might not have ignored it, but it said my version of Silverlight expired. Ok so big deal. You might say, ''Why not just go get a new version?'' Well it says to go to a certain URL. You can't click on the URL, and you can't copy and paste the text. ...

I often write queries in SQL Server Management Studio to find different bits of information about which I am curious. This is quite easy and I discover a lot of useful and interesting things this way. You might ask why I am writing this blog post. I'll first say that I try to share these little tidbits with others. Sure I could bring people over ...

I just tried to chat with a tech support person about restoring from a Ghost image and this is what I got:Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e31' Timeout expired /sdccommon/inc/db/dbcommon.inc, line 276 Nice use of include files in asp classic that is only about 6-7 years old! And of course this message was seen ...

So I desperately needed to rollback the deletion of six source code files, which, by the way, were asp.net custom control classes. See previous post. The simple solution, right click on the files and select Rollback, Revert, or some other command. Okay, so maybe the command is nested somewhere below that point in the command hierarchy. Or NOT! ...