I have been fighting with this lately, but here is something I haven’t tried… rewriting the interface that is giving me problems.
Not sure if this will work, but I will give it a try.
More in the souce…
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Microsoft AdCenter
I came across this offer where you get $50 free (I haven’t read the details) for using Microsofts adCenter (just like adwords I guess).
http://www.startadcenter.com/lcoff/
Size Of Nearly All Bodies In Our Solar System
This is really cool.
I did a project just like this in 7th grade, but I only did it for the (then) 9 planets.
Remove "Click Here To Enable Instant Search"
To not get prompted to download the Windows Desktop Search component, do the
following:
1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click Other, and then click Advanced Options.
3. Under General settings, clear the Show prompts to enable Instant
Search check box.
Most Indemnad Skills for 2007
Web development is number 2 of the most indemand skills for 2007:
http://www.hotgigs.com/pdf/contractworkforce2007_d.pdf?src=cwremailconsultantb
When they break down the web development category, I have extensive experience in almost but 1 of the top 10 sub categories, with my main area of expertise being the top item: ASP.NET development.
Good to know that I made a good decision to not focus on Fortran! 🙂
Renewing the SSL Certificate on a Network Load Balanced system
We had a problem last night as we attempted to update our site certificate on our NLB website.
We have 2 machines in the cluster, and after updating the certificate on both of them, the site stopped responding over https.
We spent a LOT of time trying to figure out what was wrong with our new certificate, or the way we had set it up.
In the end, it turned out that that when we updated the certificate, it AUTOMATICALLY removed the NLB IP address from the IPs that are listening for port 443.
So the result was that each server would respond over SSL on it’s own, but when you tried to access the cluster by it’s IP address over SSL, there would be no response.
It was really easy to fix, but a real pain to find.
String-Net Liquid
Some researchers belive they have found a new type of matter, called String-Net Liquid.
The suggestion is that electrons are not elementary particles, but rather are the end points of strings of other particles, similar to quantium entanglement.
The mesh of strings behaves according to Maxwell’s equations, which deal with the propagation of light.
They think that the vacuum of space might be filled with these strings.
Very interesting.
Use Google To Find Open Directories
This is a really neat example of how to use the advanced search abilities of Google to narrow down your search to specific files.
From the article:
The following is a Google search string for searching open web directories containing downloadable Nirvana music files. Substitute the term Nirvana in the search string for any other band of your liking. You can always bookmark the search result for future use.
With some very slight modifications the same search string can easily be used to search for ebooks in DOC and PDF format:
Or perhaps your looking for some specific video file:
Access to performance data was denied …
I have been getting this error in the event log of one of my clients servers:
Access to performance data was denied to UserName as attempted from C:WINNTSystem32WinMgmt.exe
I first tried this:
Open the “Computer Management” app
Expand the “Services and Applications” section
Right-click the “WMI Control” entry & select “Properties”
Go to the “Security” tab
Expand the “Root” node and then select the “WMI” node
Click the “Security” button
Add the account & give it access
That didn’t work, so I found another suggestion:
1. Run regedt32
2. Select the key SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionPerflib
3. From the menu select ‘Security/Permissions’
4. Add the Internet Guest Account granting only ‘read’ permission
In case that doesn’t work, here are some more articles on the subject
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/226494
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1000&eventno=1700&source=Perflib&phase=1
Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing
This is the paper I wrote for my Bioinformatics course at the University Of Chicago, discussing some of the methods available to sequencing DNA of complex organisms, and how Myers was able to use the whole genome shotgun method to sequence the human genome.
Chris May 
