Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

My laptop is dead. Long live my laptop. Good thing a brand new Dell Inspiron 8600 is on it's way tomorrow... Now hopefully it's the IDE controller that died on my laptop... and not the hard drive. Otherwise I just lost a week's worth of work.

As I mentioned over on my Open Letter To Microsoft the other day, it seems that many of the "Open Source" people are just "anti-Microsoft" people. If there was any doubt before, just take a look at the Open Source community's reaction to news that Firefox has security flaws. This particular quote was my favorite:

I was watching clips from Bill's keynote... did anyone else notice that hed made a really poor choice in chairs? Compared to the behemoth that is Conan the advent... uh, I mean O'Brien, and the fact that it was so freakin wide... it just made him look really puny. What, does Bill have a big ass? Why did he need such a wide chair? He should have picked a skinnier chair with a shorter back... would have made him look more prominent.

After my massive update of the CommentSpam.org database last week, I accidentally posted a couple of entries without an IP address. That broke the Real-Time Blacklist CVF file. I added some logic to my CVF handler to check for DBNull before adding a node to the XML document. I should have done that earlier <smacks forehead> but it's working now.

Well, ok I'm not THAT happy ;). But I am really excited. I've been working at a client's for the past three weeks rebuilding their network. The viruses and spyware just got so bad that everything had to be wiped, and we started from scratch. It consisted of:

Is that a challenge? Hmmm.... <sly grin>

I was going through my websites recently, and I noticed something curious about the .Text default web.config files that are chipped with the bits. The <compilation> tag has the "debug" attribute set to true. If you're running a large .Text community (as I am), this can have a very serious impact on performance. Make sure you check your settings and set debug="false" if you have not already sone so. I would restart IIS also, just for good measure.

I've had Xbox live for a couple weeks now, but I haven't been on it very much since no one ever seems to be on for NFL Fever 2004. But I bought Halo 2 yesterday, and been playing deathmatches nonstop ever since. Regrettably, the only person's butt I kicked was Scott Hanselman. Had a blast last night though.