June 2005 Blog Posts
One of the nice things about old style CRTs is that you could simple spray polish onto the screen and wipe clean. Try that with an LCD and you can end up ruining it; even worse spill liquid on an LCD and it's ruined as I found out with the wife / juice / laptop combination. The problem is my laptop screen had developed smears and the wife's laptop screen was filthy. I had to do something. Lots of googling later and I discovered KlearScreen. The marketing talk looked ok;
Klear Screen is the only formula used, sold, or recommended by...
I spent the afternoon with Tony, the MVP behind sqlserverfaq and the UK SQL Server user group. Aside from getting to see him, his wife and their new son Tony had the need to consume a particular RSS feed onto his site, so I had to work for my dinner as well. The advantage of pulling RSS into a .net DataSet is that you can then leverage data binding to display the feed how you like. So, quick and dirty code time; basically we create an XmlTextReader pointing to the RSS feed and apply an XSLT to extract the information...
Currently undergoing slashdotting, outfoxed seems an interesting tool for firefox. More social bookmarking, with a clear icon on your toolbar telling you if your network of informers think it's good or not. You can also get your google results sorted, based on the recommendation level from your network. You can sign up, using me as a referral and can see my reports. If you do sign up please mail me so I can get your reports about what you find good and bad.
One thing to watch, it exports all your book marks. Your internal web pages, like printer configurations and...
I'd upgraded PC-cillin last month and wondered why their firewall didn't complain when I connected to a different network than my normal wireless one. So looked at the firewall settings; it detected my gateway IP (and it's not a NATed address) but didn't pick up the MAC address. Strange, because arp -a displays it fine. The "bigged-up" by marketing "Wi-Fi" detection facility wouldn't enable either. So I thought I'd email them and ask why it didn't work.
Hi folks,
1) The firewall does not pick up the MAC address from the router, even though it's in the ARP cache. This means...