I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to mention it again: Microsoft is absolutely killing me with their version mismatching versioning scheme as of late. A list of complaints: The .Net Framework v3.0 is anything but a major release...hell, it's barely even a point release. It should be called .Net...
I am aware of the issue, thanks to all who have reported it. That error has been cropping up in other areas of my site for a while now, however they are non-critical and thus I didn't take the time to track them down. Now that this is affecting core portions of my site I'll be burning the midnight oil...
So I made the first of my readiness upgrades for Vista today: I installed a second 1 gig DIMM of RAM in my machine...same brand and speed as the existing DIMM, lo and behold the memory test in Vista actually dropped 2/10ths of a point, from 4.2 to 4.0 (~5% decrease). I wasn't expecting it to go up, but...
Today like the rest of the free internet using world, I installed Internet Explorer 7. Yes it looks good, is more standards compliant, is (supposedly) more secure, blah blah blah. I have installed IE7 in various incarnations 4 times (on this machine) over the past few months...the installation routine...
I recently downloaded the September CTP VPC image of Orcas (aka Visual Studio vNext) only to find that the image I downloaded refused to mount in Virtual PC. Thankfully I just stumbled across Jon Galloway's post about just this issue here . In a nutshell, there are two VPC images I needed to download;...
I've noticed a new (well, new to my site at least) form of blog spam trickling in here on JK.com; the spammer leaves a comment that is simply a duplicate of the post up to a certain amount of words, and the only link back to their site is in the "From" box, so for example if Google were to spam this...
I posted earlier about the inability to open documents in the Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh. The fix is here in the readme file (who has time to actually read readme's?)...in a nutshell the issue only affects users who have a consumer version of Symantec Anti-Virus installed (in my case I have Norton...