May 2006 - Posts
Nice to see that
OnCare has made it out into the wild. I was on the beta for OneCare and found it to be very usable. I've used Norton AV and McAfee virus scanners in the past. I really have not liked the 3rd party antivirus apps because they eat up alot of resources and cause compatibility issues. OneCare seemed to play nice and I didnt notice any system degradation while using it. If your still riding bare back I highly suggest you try out OneCare.
P.S. another really nice light weight virus scanner is
portable clamwin. It's free and can run from your usb thumb drive. Good for those times when you have to play IT guy for your family or friends. :)
Oh boy! While a friend and I were browsing for books we came across this little gem:
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0471783307This proves my theory that there's a "For Dummies" book on everything.
I tried the forgot my password option and codeplex sent me the email with the link to reset my password. I clicked it and went to the page that let me specify a new password. When I submitted the form it took a long time and eventually just died with no response. (Just aborted the connection, Fiddler showed that it didnt respond with any data.). Now my account is locked out. I sent the codeplex guys an email via the contact us link about a week ago and still havnt recieved a reply. I guess I have to create a whole new login with a different email address if I want to continue trying codeplex.
Has anyone else been able to successfully use the forgot my password option?
I just got Office 2007 Beta 2 installed and lo and behold Word can publish blog posts!
I have about 20gig of digital photos. And I'm constantly adding more pictures from my Canon Digital Rebel. I am really looking forward to the
Windows Photo Gallery app in Vista. I just installed Vista beta2 and the app seems to run really well.
I have one big complaint though. The photo import for digital cameras. Why do all the photo apps insist on using the "film roll" metaphor? They all seem to want to organize the filesystem storage based on the date that you import them into the photo app. This is my biggest complaint about iPhoto as well so I'm not just picking on MS. ALL digicams these days stamp the date and time of the picture in the EXIF data. Why cant we use this data for naming the folders and files? Windows Photo Gallery can use this data but in a VERY limited way. I have all my photos organized like this on the file system:
My Pictures\2006\May\2006-05-01 12-05-37_1.jpg
or
My Pictures\Year\Month\YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS_#.jpg
This makes it very easy to make backups of the photos because they are organized by the date and time they were taken. In the age of 1-8Gig flash cards you can take alot of pictures before importing them so the date that you get around to loading them onto the computer really has little or no meaning. This system works really well when you have tons of photos. I'll use tagging features of photo apps to organize by event types and such. I can use photo gallery to tag the pictures as "birthday" and such. But when it comes to the filesystem structure I need more control!
It's worth noting that no photo manager out there really supports photo renaming and filesystem organizing very well. This is why I have to use
Downloader Pro today.
I really hope MS gives me more options for naming the folders and files during the photo import process. If its too hard for the grandmas to use just bury it in an advanced dialog or something I dont care. As long as I can get the filesystem structure above I'll be happy as a clam.
bsimser has a good writeup on CodePlex and Team Explorer
here.
It would seem that Team Explorer still works with any TFS. I'm still in shock that MS actually did this. Now I just have to get everything set up and give it a spin.
bsimser says that the Team Explorer client comes with TFS. I just finished downloading the CD image and I'm having problems finding a stand alone server install. I know that on MSDN theres a 5 user version of TFS that you can download separately.
A friend of mine (Preston Ridley) just alerted me to
this blog that says Team Explorer is available for
free download now. This is for use with
codeplex.
This is great news! Thank you MS! The pondering has already started on
how this effects CALs for users that need just TFS access. My guess is
that the free version is only for use with codeplex.
Yet another ruby tool I'm gonna have to spend some time with:
http://wtr.rubyforge.org/
P.S. I need to take a look at
IronRuby as well. With all the great work done on the 2.0 version of the CLR for dynamic languages it seems that a Ruby implementation in .NET is inevitable.
Well I sure was. I was rewriting paths in a sub folder to a single template page in the root of the site. This really monkeyed up all the paths to the App_Themes folder. None of the images or css links worked anymore. Then I found that ASP.NET 2.0 added an overload to RewritePath that takes a second param to tell it whether or not to change the virtual path. Setting this to false fixed everything!
Check it out here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/1kz7fdx9.aspx
Here's a list of my current usb thumb drive build out of portable apps and tools:
- Locknote - for all my little secrets (passwords and such)
- Portable Firefox
- Extensions:
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- Tabsidebar
- Gmail notifier
- Copy plain text
- Google toolbar
- Tiny url creator
- Tag editor
- DeepestSender
- Answers
- Web Developer
- Tabmix Plus
- CoLT
- Javascript Debugger
- Google Notebook
- OperaUSB
- PortableThunderbird (email + rss aggregator)
- PortableSunbird (Calendar)
- Portable FileZilla
- PortableGAIM
- Notepad2
- SciTE
- Microburner
- Portable ClamWin
- ColorCop
- Lutz Roder's Reflector
- SnippetCompiler
- uTorrent
- TightVNC (server and client)
- Media Player Classic
- Autoruns
- DebugView
- FileMon
- RegMon
- Process Explorer
- Rootkit Revealer
- ZoomIt
- Bluescreen Screensaver
- Portable GIMP
- XAMP
- Instant Rails
To tie it all up I have an autorun for
PStart, a nice launcher that sits in the tray. Lets me assign hotkeys to the most commonly used apps.
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