Security

Godaddy And The Politics Of Mailserver Blacklisting

The effectiveness of black-listing mail servers is questionable. The overall spam volume does not appear to be impacted and keeps going ...

Setup projects with SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) databases

This article is no longer relevant. In Visual Studio 2008 SP1, setup projects allow you to select the 'User's Application ...

Another virus infection, courtesy of Yahoo News

The file was gone, but it was too late by then, the infection had already happened. CPU load was increasing, ...

Mebroot root kit infection (aka Sinowal, aka Torpig)

I booted back into XP and deleted the three files (I should have saved them for analysis, but they are ...

Information Technology

QNAP NAS – Porting a Joomla Site

I am in the process of migrating my NAS content from a Synology RS-407 to the new QNAP TS-459U - ...

Copying Visio Drawings Without A Loss Of Fidelity

Copying Visio 2007 drawings and embedding them into other documents can have startling effects. Lines can get routed differently, breaking ...

T-Mobile and Android – All Quiet on the Western Front

The mobile providers' device lineups are ever-changing, and the forces that create the dynamics are difficult to understand. Six month ...

SQL error: not an error

"SQL error: not an error" is an odd SQLite error message that can be confusing. It stumped me for a ...

Trips’n'Miles now on Android Market

Trips'n'Miles for Android is available for download from the Android Market. Simply search for "tripsnmiles" on your device. Unlike with ...

Android 2.2 Froyo – Love it

I followed the upgrade instructions in this post. There were no issues with my Nexus One. Everything worked as described. Rebooting ...

25/25 FIOS Upgrade

I upgraded my FIOS service at home from 5/1 Mbps to 25/25 Mbps for almost the same cost ($10 more). ...

Alt-Tab in Windows 7: Aero-Peek

Aero peek is the name for probably the most annoying feature in Windows 7. When you press and hold Alt-Tab, ...

Windows 7 does not boot after I changed the SATA mode to AHCI

The SATA controller's mode of operation cannot be changed to AHCI after Windows 7 is installed, because the AHCI driver ...

Gaming Rig

My last computer, purchased in January 2006, was a barebone kit from TigerDirect based on an Asus P5NSLI motherboard and ...

asp:ImageButton with PostBackUrl and OnClientClick event

When an asp:Imagebutton control is used with a client-side event, for instance to show a popup window, and the control is not in an asp:UpdatePanel, the client-side event does not complete because the ImageButton initiates a full post-back. In the browser, for instance with a ShadowBox popping up, it appears that the event fired and [...]

pod Business Intelligence Showcase

The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

QNAP NAS – Porting a Joomla Site

I am in the process of migrating my NAS content from a Synology RS-407 to the new QNAP TS-459U – very exciting. I will do performance comparisons soon, and the Synology device will end up on Ebay in a few weeks. For now I just want to report a small issue that cost me a [...]

Presentation Slides

The presentation slides from the 30th Internationalization and Unicode Conference are available right here. The presentation slides from the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies are available right here.

T-Mobile and Android – All Quiet on the Western Front

The mobile providers’ device lineups are ever-changing, and the forces that create the dynamics are difficult to understand. Six month ago, when the Google Nexus One was announced along with T-Mobile as the initial service provider, this subsidiary of the German Telekom appeared to be on the cutting edge of the promising Android market and [...]

Watch NBA Finals 2010 Live Stream Celtics vs. Lakers

I just googled something along the lines of the subject, because I am sitting at my computer doing stuff, but would like to know the score and watch the game a little. I dug through about 3 pages of Google search results that contained nothing but spam and content specifically tailored to attract people in [...]

pod Business Intelligence Showcase

The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

The Daily Drama’s Online Music Launch Pad

Sonett77.com – Electronic music radio (Germany) Play.fm – DJ sessions (Austria) Hitradio.de (Germany) – Web radio with special interest streams Rautemusik.fm – Web radio (Germany) Quu.fm (Germany) Byte.fm (Germany) – Online radio with a journalistic touch Musicovery.com (France) - ”Interactive” web readio One.fm (USA) – The music starts here Di.fm (USA) – Digitally imported Last.fm (USA) – Largest [...]

25/25 FIOS Upgrade

I upgraded my FIOS service at home from 5/1 Mbps to 25/25 Mbps for almost the same cost ($10 more). This was a while ago, but for the first time today I actually measured transfer rates close to the nominal speed. I am not using the ActionTec router, but a Netgate M1n1wall running pfSense that [...]

Vinyl Liner and Vermiculite Pool Installation Question

I had an inground pool installed last year and would like to get opinions regarding the quality of the work, since I don’t have anything to compare it with. Please post a comment or vote on the poll on the home page. Here are some pictures. Click on an image to see a version with [...]