Chris May

Network Solutions just sent me this. Maybe it's BS, but I should read it some time. It sucks that, when registering a domain you have to give public info because you KNOW that whatever email address you give is going to get spammed to hell.

The details of my contract with Dell might be here somewhere. They are clueless. They said they will mail the details because they don't know what their webiste's address is. Man they are dumb. www.dellcustomer.com? Nope. www.dellcustomerservice.com? Nope... Idiots.

I need to get a new car....

• Camry
• TSX
• Altima
• Eclipse
• Mazda 6
• G35
• Sonata
• Accord
• TL
• CL
• Maxima
• Saturn L
• Impreza WRX
• Camry Solara

I should read about this more, http://www.sybase.com/products/mobilewireless/anywhere

This page allows you to test you SMTP to see if it is allowing Open Relay.

Pretty cool.

I fricking hate spam...

People are still out there saying the Clark's big weakness is his "lack of experience" and his ability to deal with the economy.

Of course "people" are stupid.

What "experience" does the president need to have? Experience as a leader. Who could be a better example of a leader than someone who graduates first in their class, not once, but twice. Who could be a better leader than a General? A 4-star general for that matter. The guy was the "NATO Supreme Commander" for christs sake.

Economy? Clark has a masters degree from Oxford (if you don't know how prestigious Oxford is, then you probably arn't smart enough to work a computer and be reading this. After retiring from the military, Clark made millions working as an Investment Banker, but he has no idea about the economy.... right.... keep talking.

A Clark volunteer posted online:

And one last thing; I got to shake (Clark's) hand (again). I said to him: "You said in Knoxville that we wouldn't be afraid of guys like Limbaugh. They are coming after you." He said: "Limbaugh's full of shit."

My vote has been decided.


www.democraticunderground.com

So after putting in many late nights to complete this demo project, I find that it crashes on some WinXP machines, unless you resize the window.

Nice.

So what does Marcomedia say about large flash movies?

Don't make them "Big"

Ha. I wish.

Looking more like 5:30 or 6am. At what point do you just say "fuck it" and go to work early the next day instead of going to bed?

I am totally going to crash tomorrow. I really hope my client doesn't want me to stay there all day. I will be so tired.

Every build that I make with FlashMX is taking like 10 minutes (or more). I know I'm making a big swf, but this is frickin stupid.

I'm writing this as I wait.... just so I can check some changes I made 15 minutes ago.... progress bar is moving........ohhhhhhhh......maybe.......finally!!!

I'm so tired... trying to finish up a project for http://www.jmmenvironmental.com.

I am so tired. I need more sleep.

I was looking all over the internet for some explanation of how the Democratic primary worked. Smo finally found this page that explains it for each state in 2000.

Wes Clark has the lead in the Democratic nomination race according to a new Newsweek Poll.

I hope he can keep up the momentum. He is getting some criticism for not yet coming out with his agenda, even though he hasn't even been in the running for a week yet.

Finally someone is taking computer manufactures to task for advertising hard drive sizes in a false manner.

Hard drives store BINARY data. 1000 bytes != 1 KB, 1000 KB != 1MB, and 1000 MB != 1 GB.

So what does that mean?

1 GB is really 1,073,741,824 bytes. So the result is that a hard drive that is a "150GB" hard drive is really only going to store around 140GB of data. You just got screwed out of 10GB!

Here is the story.

This is funny as hell!!!! Everyone and their mom should watch this clip. I don't know how long it will be up there.

Available here for Windows Media Player.

Just found this "Our Active Directory server is at address 10.50.100.36. Port 88 is Kerberos v5, and port 445 is microsoft-ds. The initial authentication gets two hits on port 88, but we get one more hit on port 88 in between a bunch of port 445s when we connect to the public share. Even when we transfer a file from the share, all traffic is still via port 445. "

This article shows how you can Add SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures to Visual SourceSafe by Using Visual Studio .NET

This is a pretty cool menu creator. Again, it's kinda expensive ($100 or so), but looks good.

When I get around to it, I will do some of this

Wes Clark announced his intention to run for the office of president of the united states. I have been following him for a few months, watch the pledges on draftwesleyclark.com grow and grow to over $1,600,000.

I havn't seen an area where I disagree with Clark on the issues, and his ability to beat Bush should be paramount to Dems who vote in the primary. Dean will NOT win against Bush. That is why the Republicans are not attacking him very much. They actually WANT him to win.

Clark, unlike Bush, is extrememly smart and hard working. While Bush is proud that he was a "C student" in school, Clark graduate first in his class at West Point. He was a White House Fellow, and a Rhodes Scholar. A four star general who won the war in Kosovo without a single loss of American life, Clark also speaks 4 languages, and has spent his entire life defending our freedom.

The word "freedom" has taken on a strange meaning in the last 2 years, as it is primarly used to quash any critisim of the president of his policies.

I'm not going to go into a rant here, but it's about time we get a man like Clark into office. I hope that Democrat primary voters realize that Clark is the man that can defeat Bush, and not Dean, when they cast their vote.

I havn't read this article yet... but probabaly should.

This is a somewhat usefull, but confusing, list of many of the properties that are available in the property collection. If you look down the page for the "Attributes" section you can find a list of available names of properties for a DirectoryEntry item.

I think VS.NET kinda does a lot of this already by default when you create a new class... maybe not.

I wrote a macro that enters a bunch of code to do a lot of this, maybe I'll post it up here if I remember.

Here is a link to the article.

This Menu/Navigation control is pretty awsome!

As you can see here, this tool from vbCity, called PrettyCode.Encoder is really slick.

Check out the colored HTML pages here.

Microsoft pisses me off. This is such as pain in the ass.

To configure Windows XP to search all files no matter what the file type, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP and then turn on the Index file types with unknown extensions option.

If you use this method, Windows XP searches all file types for the text that you specify. This can affect the performance of the search functionality. To do this:

1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders).
2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).
3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties.
6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK.
7. Close the Indexing Service console.

Here is another date and time selector. The time portionn of it is kinda weak, but it does do nice auto completion. Maybe something to look at in the client side script.

This control package is the first one I have see that has a seperate popup menu for the Time element of a Date Time. I'm more interested in Time than Date at this point, so this looks interesting.

This site has a pretty nice date picker control, along with a few others, such as a control that does a countdown to an event.

When you start to type in the textbox, a listbox appears and tries to narrow down its list based on your entries. It is supposed to be OSS, and available here.

This control is pretty slick, but kinda expensive at 90 bucks for a single license.

"Overall, recorded music sales are down 31 percent since mid-2000, when the Napster online file-sharing phenomenon was in full bloom", said RIAA President Cary Sherman.

No crap? So you are saying that when Napster was going full speed, you sales were 44.9% higher??? (Side note, if you think 44.9 should be "31", then you are idiot too, and need to take a math class) So basically what the RIAA is saying, is that from the time that they started suing everyone and everything involved with P2P, sales of CDs have FALLEN 31%??? But... this is BECAUSE of the P2P networks?!?!?!?

Let's think this one through....

year = 2000, P2P Programs = on everyones computer, record sales = really good

year = 2003, P2P users/companies being sued, record sales = shit

Someone with a brain please help out those fools.

Anyone with any foresight knows the CD is on it's way out. It is an OLD and JUNKY piece of technology. The RIAA might think that they can stop technology, but they are fools to think this. The problem is that the future of music doesn't involve "music labels". All you need is a server and some bandwidth and you can sell your album to everyone on earth.

This article from IISFaq basically explains a method for forcing HTTPS. You require IIS to use HTTPS, and then you put a redirect page in and assign that page to be the 403 default page. Article is here.

Finally found this.

This link points to the getting started page. If you look down the tree on the left, you can see the TSQL Reference node.

Here is a thread about skinning a DNN site.