Syracuse makes CIO Magazine’s The Worst U.S. Cities to Work in IT list.
Technically, I don’t live in Syracuse. I live about 15 minutes north in Clay, which is #2 on the top 101 cities with highest average snowfall.
(6/23/2009 04:52 PM)
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Some folks (including me) are experiencing problems with version 10 of the Adobe Flash player and Internet Explorer. Oddly enough, I didn’t seem to have any trouble until after this month’s “patch Tuesday” (Microsoft updates).
For now, I’ve downgraded Flash to version 9 to workaround the problem. Adobe has older versions of Flash available [...]
(12/15/2008 12:37 PM)
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From the stuff I should know but didn’t until yesterday dept:
Handy method in the System.Security namespace for replacing invalid XML characters with their escaped equivalents:
SecurityElement.Escape(string str)
(12/10/2008 02:40 PM)
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I decided to check on the state of Vista fixes last night by installing the latest updates from Windows Update and the latest NVidia drivers. Unfortunately, my system would still hang when waking from its second slumber. These kinds of sleep problems with Vista are widely reported on blogs and discussion forums all over the [...]
(6/26/2008 04:40 PM)
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About a month ago, news spread that NVIDIA drivers were to blame for nearly 30% of all Vista crashes in 2007.
I’ve also seen folks report problems resuming from sleep mode that have NVIDIA graphics chips running VISTA. Exactly the problem I’ve been having.
The Asus motherboard I’m using not only has an NVIDIA video chip, [...]
(5/03/2008 08:01 PM)
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I grabbed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP from MSDN and nearly hosed up my machine tonight.
After backing up my drive, I installed SP3. Once the installation finished, it wanted to reboot the system (of course). Problem was, it wouldn’t start back up. It just hung there on the Windows XP logo screen with the [...]
(4/26/2008 07:01 PM)
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From the things I didn’t know department comes JScript.NET. What is JScript.NET? In a nutshell, it’s a .NET version of JScript, i.e. a .NET version of JavaScript! Why should you care about JScript.NET? Well, here’s a scenario I had recently:
The company I work for uses Nagios to monitor it’s mission critical systems. One common use [...]
(4/24/2008 04:06 PM)
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Windows Vista caused me to have a Samuel L. Jackson moment a couple of weeks ago.
I installed SP1 with high hopes of it fixing the things about Vista that have been driving me nuts for almost a year. Namely:
Random application crashes, including Windows Explorer
The inability to wake up using the network card with Virtual [...]
(2/29/2008 06:42 PM)
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I’ve inherited yet another project at work. This latest one includes a series of reports all done in Excel with VBA macros. The code for these macros is almost unmaintainable, so I’m trying get these rewritten using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). This is my first experience with VSTO and right [...]
(12/06/2007 06:59 PM)
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Moved this site to GoDaddy.com hosting this weekend from Brinkster. My rate with Brinkster was going up (I originally signed up during a 50% off sale) and they’ve annoyed me a few times when they would change things (breaking my site) with no notice. I’ve seen plenty of complaints about GoDaddy hosting around [...]
(12/02/2007 10:16 AM)
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