I just installed Windows Vista RC1 (Build 5600) and had some serious problems getting Windows Update to work from behind my proxy server. The error I got was 8024402C, along with the recommendation to try the Automatic Proxy configuration. Needless…
Category: Tips and Tricks
Just like some time earlier this year, Build 5600 (RC1) of the Windows Vista OS has difficulaties with VMWare. Fortunately, life is somewhat easier this time around: If your problem is that Vista seems to freeze during installation at the…
Here is a suggestion for the dasBlog folks: After our corporate blog host (http://blogs.sun.com/) was upgraded to Roller 3.0 (which – by the way – has a couple of really nice improvements), my cross-poring would no longer work. Since this…
Well, I finally bit the bullet and decided to update my production blog engine to the latest build. This will be a new adventure, since I am now really on some ‘terra incognita’: I am running on a beta platform,…
Since I was recently going through my inventory of Javascript components to update a web site, I decided to link a few of the nicer ones here. They are not as integrated as the GWT or Microsoft Atlas, but –…
Here is a nice AJaX pattern: In most samples that I have seen so far, a global XMLHttpRequest variable is declared, since you cannot pass variables to the action handler. In this article, they show a nice pattern, where you…
NOTE: Do not do this to any of your production machines – you will make then unusuable! So here is a way that should work for getting the Vista BootMgr to load Linux or Solaris. Note that I did not…
This is an update for an earlier article I wrote on getting Vista and Linux to dual boot. I received some feedback about that article, particularly that the solution I outlined was not working for some people. So today I…
I am a big fan of electronic calendars: no paper to loose, you an copy the data anywhere, great integration with other electronic collaboration tools, etc. One of the problems I had with the Sun Calendar Srever so far was…
Here is a nice little tweak for Visual Studio 2005: In a debug session with the default settings, you can only see “External Code” in the call stack for the Windows/.NET code base. If you go to Tools -> Options……