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Star Wars films converted to 3D: 2012 release date for Episode I sciencefictionworld.com Star Wars creator George Lucas is converting all 6 Star Wars films to 3D with the first due for release in 2012.
(9/29/2010 04:08 AM)

ASP.NET Wizard Control Oddness

Haven’t posted anything in over a year, but decided to break the silence to write about something that caused me to waste more time than it should have. Hopefully, it will save someone else (or future me) from wasting more time on it. I’m developing an ASP.NET site using the Wizard control and have code that [...]
(9/27/2010 12:40 PM)

Home Sweet Home

Syracuse makes CIO Magazine’s The Worst U.S. Cities to Work in IT list. Technically, I don’t live in Syracuse. I live about 15 minutes north in Clay, which is #2 on the top 101 cities with highest average snowfall.
(6/23/2009 04:52 PM)

Flash Player 10 Causing Internet Explorer Hang

Some folks (including me) are experiencing problems with version 10 of the Adobe Flash player and Internet Explorer. Oddly enough, I didn’t seem to have any trouble until after this month’s “patch Tuesday” (Microsoft updates). For now, I’ve downgraded Flash to version 9 to workaround the problem. Adobe has older versions of Flash available [...]
(12/15/2008 12:37 PM)

Escaping characters for an XML string in .NET

From the stuff I should know but didn’t until yesterday dept: Handy method in the System.Security namespace for replacing invalid XML characters with their escaped equivalents: SecurityElement.Escape(string str)
(12/10/2008 02:40 PM)

Vista Sleep Problem Solved?

I decided to check on the state of Vista fixes last night by installing the latest updates from Windows Update and the latest NVidia drivers.  Unfortunately, my system would still hang when waking from its second slumber.  These kinds of sleep problems with Vista are widely reported on blogs and discussion forums all over the [...]
(6/26/2008 04:40 PM)

NVIDIA to Blame for my Vista Woes?

About a month ago, news spread that NVIDIA drivers were to blame for nearly 30% of all Vista crashes in 2007. I’ve also seen folks report problems resuming from sleep mode that have NVIDIA graphics chips running VISTA. Exactly the problem I’ve been having. The Asus motherboard I’m using not only has an NVIDIA video chip, [...]
(5/03/2008 08:01 PM)

XP SP3: Evil Plot to Get Me to Switch Back to Vista?

I grabbed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP from MSDN and nearly hosed up my machine tonight. After backing up my drive, I installed SP3.  Once the installation finished, it wanted to reboot the system (of course).  Problem was, it wouldn’t start back up.  It just hung there on the Windows XP logo screen  with the [...]
(4/26/2008 07:01 PM)

JScript.NET

From the things I didn’t know department comes JScript.NET.  What is JScript.NET?  In a nutshell, it’s a .NET version of JScript, i.e. a .NET version of JavaScript!  Why should you care about JScript.NET?  Well, here’s a scenario I had recently: The company I work for uses Nagios to monitor it’s mission critical systems.  One common use [...]
(4/24/2008 04:06 PM)

Enough is Enough

Windows Vista caused me to have a Samuel L. Jackson moment a couple of weeks ago. I installed SP1 with high hopes of it fixing the things about Vista that have been driving me nuts for almost a year.  Namely: Random application crashes, including Windows Explorer The inability to wake up using the network card with Virtual [...]
(2/29/2008 06:42 PM)