Jon Galloway

I recently bought a Dell Dimension 9100, mainly due to the 24" LCD bundle. I blew out whatever goofiness had been preinstalled and went to intall Windows XP SP2. Well, it has a SATA drive and Windows still doesn't include SATA drivers.

I'll confess - my kids watch the occasional TV show. At least with our Windows MCE setup, they watch shows my wife and I preselect instead of whatever happens to be on at the time, but that brings with it the annoyance of having to change the shows when each one ends.

Here's a nice free3D Pie Chart class on CodeProject. Version 1.4 (just released) includes some bug fixes and a demo app. Purty.

The BizTalk Server 2004 installation fails on XP SP2 with an error message that doesn't give much of a clue as to what the problem is: Failed to generate the master secret (error code 0X80070005). As Marco says in his post, it's easy enough to Google it if you know that XP SP2 caused the problem, but otherwise it's not easy to figure out.

A family member called me about the bandwidth on his site due to MP3 downloads lately. The host company said there had been 40GB of downloads this past month, which required extra fees since the hosting plan doesn't allow for near that bandwidth. I changed the offending MP3 links to use the (free) Coral Distribution Network , and thought it would be good to share the information on this service since it's bailed me out more than a few times.

Well, hey, look at that! This is my 300th post. Hooray for multiples of 100!