January 2005 - Posts
At The Register via Backcountry Conservative : So Sam, like other link spammers, uses the thousands of 'open proxies' on the net. These are machines which, by accident (read: clueless sysadmins) or design (read: clueless managers) are set up so that anyone,
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Ok, I've created a new project site at SourceForge.net which you can find here . Everytime I try to figure out the CVS stuff I end up feeling dumb because I can't figure it out. So hopefully I'll “get it” this weekend so that I can put some
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Well I've been battling comment spam a lot here at the SqlXml Blogs. Vinod gets up to 50 comment spams per day. Up until now I've just been using a stored procedure that inserts the offending URL into a banned url table and deletes all the comments associated
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Here at work I use two computers and have different applications on each. Sometimes I want to copy/paste from one computer to the other but never knew how. So today I looked into it and came across clippool. Clippool.exe is a command-line utility (available
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Last week I was doing a lot of ASP.Net development and ran into some real time wasters. Things that make you want to beat your head on the desk. Especially this first one. 1) I would rebuild my project and would then try to access the page on my local
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I haven't done much with the RsWebParts for since I released the last beta version (sorry if you've sent me email or posted questions in the comments, I've been too busy), but it looks like they are getting some more attention with the release of Reporting
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My dad got a Maxtor OneTouch II 250 GB external hard drive for Christmas. I'm the IT guy for my parents so my job was to set it up so that he could use it to backup his computer. Simple, I thought. I plugged in the drive and installed the software. The
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One of my recent projects was to develop a new menu system for our SharePoint portal to replace our old menu system (which was a custom menu as well). I decided to create an ASP.Net server control to do this. I created my control, signed it, deployed
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Scott posted a cool trick to map a WebDAV or FontPage website to a drive letter. Since I do a lot of SharePoint work I immediately started thinking of all the cool things I could do with this once I had a folder mapping to my SharePoint portal site (like
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Well I'm finally getting caught up here at work after taking two weeks off. I must say that being a dad is a great thing and I would highly recommend it to anyone, but it is a lot of work :) Prior to my wife going into labor on Sunday, December 19, I
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