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Security
In case you have not heard or read about it, take a look at this WSJ article before you continue. But ...
The effectiveness of black-listing mail servers is questionable. The overall spam volume does not appear to be impacted and keeps going ...
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, ...
I booted back into XP and deleted the three files (I should have saved them for analysis, but they are ...
Information Technology
XBMC – Possibly the last media player I will own
Part I - XBMC Live About 6 years ago I purchased my first media player - the then newly launched Pinnacle ...
Below is a list of my favorite Drupal modules and their availability of a stable/recommended version for the Drupal 7 ...
Sometimes it can be convenient to create CSS styles that are unique to a specific page context, either because a ...
In case you have not heard or read about it, take a look at this WSJ article before you continue. But ...
Vertical Response only includes an 'unsubscribe' link in their emails by default. The 'forward to a friend' link is not ...
Nothing good can come of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. This will lead to essentially a 2-player ...
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 ...
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" is an odd SQLite error message that can be confusing. It stumped me for a ...
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 [...]
Business Intelligence Showcase by pod consulting
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 Customers Against an AT&T Takeover
Nothing good can come of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. This will lead to essentially a 2-player cell phone market (Verizon and AT&T). Some quotes taken from various news articles: “We know the results of arrangements like this — higher prices, fewer choices, less innovation.” (Public Knowledge president Gigi Sohn). “AT&T will [...]
Why we don’t need to be concerned about the Epsilon security breach
In case you have not heard or read about it, take a look at this WSJ article before you continue. But why shouldn’t we be concerned? The short answer: because this incident represents only a tiny sliver of the problem and so many other breaches will follow that it really makes not difference if you [...]
Business Intelligence Showcase by pod consulting
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 [...]
XBMC – Possibly the last media player I will own Part I – XBMC Live About 6 years ago I purchased my first media player – the then newly launched Pinnacle Showcenter 200. It was an exciting new device with countless possibilities. It helped define a market that previously had not existed. Alas, Pinnacle’s acquisition by Avid in 2005, the ensuing lackluster support and product [...]
