To anticipate and prevent
I was recently mucking about with my profile on Facebook and accidentally set my Birthday to 1910 (first year in the list). It threw me back an error message saying “Please enter your real birthday.”. I found this extremely odd, just I fiddled about a bit with the birthdates. As it turns out — Facebook…
At the office we use Symantec anti-virus. Recently we upgraded to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 which includes Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Proactive Threat Protection and lastly… Network Threat Protection. The reason why I single out that last component is because it contains MASSIVE amounts of failure — or lack of QA work. This last week I finally…
This is something I’ve been meaning to complain about for a while now, but I don’t like the new gmail. If you use gmail, you probably saw the notice a bit ago that they were changing over to some new version. It was “new” and “improved” and to us looked just the same and did…
I just watched an amusing little video I found over on Digg. The link is titled “Geek Squad Put to Test” and the short version is that a TV news station puts Best Buy, Circuit City and MicroCenter (??) tech support to the test. The test was to change a single setting in the BIOS…
Sad as it is to see, HD-DVD is dead. I think this is another fantastic case of VHS (Blu-Ray) versus Beta Max (HD-DVD) where the superior technical format has lost for some unforseen reason. I’m sad that HD-DVD lost, because that was my favorite format (obviously), but I’m happy that the war is over. I…
Here’s the short version: IIS 7.0, much like IIS 6.0 has problems with 32 bit applications running on IIS 7.0 (Windows 2008) on native 64 bit machines. The fix is much easier than IIS 6.0 though. So if you want to run a 32 bit ASP.NET application under IIS 7.0 (x64), do the following: Open…