May 2006 - Posts

• Star Wars

  I have never been a Star Wars fan, but this has to be the best Star Wars "movie" ever. And its free...   Posted May 31 2006, 10:23 PM by Bob with no comments

• Skin By Bob

  First, let me get this out of the way. Yes, it sucks. Yes, it needs tweaked alittle for firefox (though mostly looks the same). I am pretty happy with my move to subText, but the one thing it is lacking is some skins. For the people who know me, they know I have no right hand side to my brain, and can't draw a stick figure, so the fact that I was able to make a skin at all... The skin is (mostly) done. The controls on the right side get alittle flacky as you get above or beyond what they like for a screen size. There are some odd screens here and there I probably havent touched at all. In case you cant tell, the theme is basically a subText rendition of the Windows Media Center Energy Theme. I think I am going to tweak it a bit more to finish it and then start a new one. I am not sure I like the way this one came out, but it was a good proof of concept, plus now that the controls are built and clean xml/css class layouts are in place, the next theme should be much easier. (I hope) Update: Interesting, I just saw my skin in IE 6 for the first time, and now I understand why web developers hate it... Posted May 27 2006, 11:35 PM by Bob with 3 comment(s)

• Free eTrust for Vista

  CA is offering a 1 year free trial of eTrust AntiVirus for Vista Beta Testers. Get it here. Posted May 25 2006, 05:44 AM by Bob with no comments

• Vista Beta 2 and Office 2007 Beta 2

  are up on MSDN. Get em while they're hot! Posted May 24 2006, 09:37 AM by Bob with 6 comment(s)

• Broken Email

  I noticed I hadn't received any emails from the site recently, and then remembered I never changed my mail server configuration after moving the site. Oops. If you sent me mail and I didn't respond, I wasn't ignoring you I just didn't get it. Really. I'm not lying. Posted May 18 2006, 05:45 PM by Bob with no comments

• Anonymous Comments

  No, I am not disabling anonymous comments, not that anyone would notice, I don't really get comments. Then again, I don't really ever say anything exciting. But people who *DO* disable anonymous comments piss me off. Alot. I am not going to read their stuff, I am not going to comment on their stuff. I am not going to link their stuff. Ever. No matter what. Matter of fact. From now on, every site I go to that has anonymous comments disabled, I am going to open my hosts file and block their domain. I think we should all do this. If they think they are so much more important than the rest of us, well, I think they should be important alone. Or get hit by a bus. Posted May 17 2006, 10:34 AM by Bob with 4 comment(s)

• I Remember When

  I remember alot of things. I remember my first PC being a Commodore 64. I remember owning the coolest little thing at the time, a Timex Sinclair. I remember building my first PC. It was a 10 mhz NEC V20 8088 compatible and I built it in a cardboard box because cases were expensive back then, and I was 14 or so. .... I remember a time when MSDN didn't suck. ... I log into MSDN, I am looking for the new Office. I am looking for the new Vista. These are things I should be coding for. By the time my next application rolls out, Vista will be near. (Or so we assume from the latest information). If vista is near, then so is Office 2007. It would be nice to know that I can count on my application working with these technologies. I can get new CTP/betas of everything from IE 7 (thanks for the boost firefox) to Atlas (thanks for the boost Google via Ajax) to friggin Microsoft Porn Service. But I guess I cant get a recent copy of Vista or a copy at all of Office 2007 because they don't have a competitor in these areas? Let me rephrase. After MSDN's price restructuring that requires not only your first but second born for an MSDN subscription (the top of the line subscription is $10,939 compared to the previous top of the line of ~$3500) I can not as a subscriber and a developer (DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!) legitimately get either of these products, even though there are torrents all over the place for the script kiddies to get. Hey Ballmer. Thanks for all the fish... Posted May 17 2006, 10:16 AM by Bob with 2 comment(s)

• IE 7

  Dont get me wrong, I love the new IE 7. But humourously enough, my blog seems to render great in everything...except IE 7... Posted May 15 2006, 09:41 PM by Bob with no comments

• The Host With the Most

  Well it seems like everyone else I know (Jayson was the first) is tired of self hosting and has chosen aspnix to host for them, so I decided to do the same. We all know I don't like to be different. Uploaded my content, ftped a restore of my database and changed my nameservers and I am up and running. Pretty painless all in all. They have a nice set of tools and are pretty cheap. I guess I am going to turn one of my servers into a game server and the other one can continue to stream my media for listening to at work and watching on the media center. Alls well that ends well they say... Posted May 10 2006, 06:44 AM by Bob with 3 comment(s)

• All Assembly Keywords Should Be Four Letters

  So it would be like cursing. Posted May 04 2006, 10:26 PM by Bob

• I Have Seen It All

  I have now officially seen it all. I had *NotePad* of all things crash on me today... Posted May 04 2006, 02:12 PM by Bob with no comments

• Bitter

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• subText for Bob

  Well, subText is now up and running. The server is R2 and it is working in....asp.net 2.0 in all the 64 bit wonderness. I know that is but a small step, but it gives me hope that I can continue to have it working in 2.0 once I recompile this coming weekend... UPDATE: It looks like there may be some bugs, one specifically is that the archives dont work. Go ahead. Click on one... Let me know if you see anything else misbehaving... Posted May 02 2006, 06:20 AM by Bob with 3 comment(s)

• LLBLGen Book

  For those of you who are fans of LLBLGen, or for those of you like me who love it one day and hate it the next, there is an llblgen book out now that might mean you love it more days, and hate it less. There is a PDF version for $8.75 and a print version for $16.10. I went for the PDF version, I am one of those weirdos that likes reading books on the handheld...I'll let you know what I think of it in a couple days. Posted May 02 2006, 06:18 AM by Bob with no comments