Jon Galloway
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Windows OneCare, Automatic Updates, and Automatic Reboots
I've been beta testing Windows OneCare™ Live : "the all-in-one, automatic and self-updating PC care service aimed at helping consumers more easily protect and maintain their PCs to keep them running well."It integrates smoothly with Windows, consolidates firewall, antivirus, backup, and more. It's one of the better designed pieces of software I've used , and it puts the standard Windows security packages (Symantec, McAfee, etc.) to shame. I'm a thrifty consumer (readers of my blog will note my love of free software), and I think the price is very reasonable: the subscription price for up to three computers will be $49.95. If that seems pricey, consider that it does a lot more than the other antivirus packages, does it very well, and covers three computers. They're now in an open Beta period, so you can try it out free here.
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Runing IE7 Beta 2 Preview next to IE6 (the right way)
UPDATE: See this post for the latest release of IE7 standalone.
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[DotNetNuke] Eagerly awaiting the release of the DotNetNuke Store Module...
UPDATE: DotNetNuke Store (BETA) has been released. Get it here.
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[tip] Test command line settings with EchoArgs 9.78 PRO
Occasionally, applications will allow you to call external helper programs via command line. That can get tricky when you're supplying a command line template and the application does some token replacement before running the commandline. For example, when I hooked up SourceGear Vault to WinMerge, the trick was in figuring out which tokens it was replacing and how those mapped to WinMerge's commandline arguments. So if my commandline setting is /dl "%WORKING_LABEL%" /dr "%OTHER_LABEL%" "%WORKING_PATH%" "%OTHER_PATH%" "%DEST_PATH%", what exactly is being passed for "WORKING_LABEL" and "OTHER_LABEL"?
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[tip] Use WinMerge for compare / merge in SourceGear Vault
I previously blogged about how to use WinMerge as the diff tool in StarTeam. Diff / Merge against source control is something I do very frequently, so I think it's worth the few minutes to use the best possible tool. I've been a fan of WinMerge for a while, so when I started using SourceGear Vault this post was pretty much inevitable.
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[fix] DotNetNuke SolPart menu positioning fix for Firefox
The admin dropdown menus in our DNN 3.1.1 sites haven't been working in FireFox - they show up in the upper left hand corner of the screen (absolutely positioned at 0,0). A javascript change (in spmenu.js) fixed it for us.
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Judicious dependency selection is a powerful tool
Ah, the blog comment turned rant turned blog post...
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[funny] Best Blonde Joke Ever
Definitely the best blonde joke ever.[1]