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I started off my career supporting MS all the way......basically am still in the same team. But apparently, and again....most of the big service companies(eg.insurance, healthcare,etc) turn in a sad face when they are told that their data will be hosted on SQL Server 2000. For some reason, they still think that only DB2 or Oracle are qualified enough to even think of hosting so much data. Honestly, I am not biased, I don't know too much of Oracle....and know nothing in DB2....but know a decent length in SQL server 2k.
And just when I started to read up on SQL server 2005, and try to convince my boss to implement it as soon as it releases, the management decides that all data from now on will be hosted on Oracle (hosted in a linux environment). damn...i hate linux soo much from a developer's perspective.
Ah well...stole a PL/SQL book from my collegue, got to start reading up on it now.
A how-to note to self.
1. In explorer, open Tools, Folder Options.
2. Select the File Types tab.
3.For Windows XP: Go to NONE / Folder.
For Windows 2000: Press n to scroll to the N/A section.
For Windows NT/98/95: Press f to scroll to the Folders section.
4.Select the entry labeled Folder
5.For Windows 2000/XP: Press Advanced button.
For Windows NT/98/95: Press Edit button.
6. Select New
7. In the action block type "Command Prompt" without the quotes.
8. In the app block type "cmd.exe" without the quotes.
9. Save and exit Folder Options.
10. Close that instance of Explorer window and open a new one.
Not the first time to be noticing this......but whenever I install Yahoo Messenger on any computer.....it brings out this wizard screen and all of us geeks use the "custom" installation hoping that we can install only the stuff we need...typically the messenger only and ignore all the other stuff (yahoo internet mail, explorer bar, etc) and click on "Next"....and if the wizard took our input properly, then we would have seen only the messenger installed and nothing else....and technically....we live happily ever after.
But NO....yahoo does not do that....though I UN-CHECK the checkboxes against everything else except messenger, they still get installed....so much so...that it is not even covert....it does it right infront of ur eyes. The progress bar boldly says that it is installing the explorer bar, internet mail, etc...... too much honesty.
Giving it a benefit of the doubt, I go ahead and check the "Add/Remove Programs section "... just to be sure......and ya....they are there too.... Everytime I have to uninstall the explorer bar and the yahoo mail from my system....does anyone @ yahoo messenger team even know that their "step-by-step wizard" has not been properly programmed?
Anyone else experiencing the same problem?
My universe consists of 4 million+ records. If I were to compare one record against the universe, how much time would I take using SQL Server 2000?
First there was a citibank email scam .... asking users for their passwords...and now there is an ebay email scam. By the looks of it, this scammer looks kinda funny. Either he/she is working with ebay or just playing around...i am still unable to figure out. I got a bunch of mails from “The ebay team“ asking me to update my info...because “someone apparently tried to log in with my account too many times“....and again....I never registered this mail acct with ebay.
First, i get mail from ebay to an account that i never gave to ebay....well..lets say our guy used a standard email broadcast technique...
Secondly....instead of taking me to a login (or similar looking) page, i am directed to a “Register” page.
Well...did not go beyond that...but....come on....is that the best they've got...asking you to register???
Had this on my list of things to check out for a reeeaaalllllly long time...and last nite on the flight to MN from Chicago, I saw this on the in-flight TV's relay of some tech-tv episode. Seems kinda a nice way to google out stuff. And unlike others (except Firefox), who tie you to a certain search engine, this allows you to use a bunch of search engines...(something like Firefox). I just downloaded it...and it is AWEsome so far. I am yet to figure out the parameters by which it categorizes stuff. So....I grokked my name.....and as expected.......a major search result in google was dotnetjunkies....and it grouped all of them under one category. I am still researching into it.
Well....since the product does a lot of visual rendering, it kinda tends to get slow once in a while....but is certainly visually appealing....and allows one to search information quicker from a result-set. Though I am not too sure if the slowing down is generic to my machine...coz this machine wont even load IE quick enuf.
You can download grokker here.
Windows Update Client gives problems if you shut down the machine whilst it is downloading the updates. So, I change the settings for the updater to download and notify me of the updates and not to install them. The issue here being that for some reason, the update client keeps trying to download something that has already been downloaded. Remember that this happens when you shut down the system when the updater is downloading something in the background. Like that was not enough, it hogs the system resources so much that even a regular copy operations takes ages. Obvious course of action was to kill the update client process...but NO...it wont allow me to kill the process either. Access Denied...even for admin.
Turns out my roomie also encountered this same issue a while ago...and he ended up formatting his system. That time I blamed it on his system being slow....but it was not to be the same case for me.
Well...Norton Ghost to the rescue. Made an intial back up of my system..when I first installed it....and it came to about 20G...ya ya...it is almost all the software a developer would ever need...well..most of it atleast. Using my breaks from TV to backup my MyDocuments and my favorites, (which literally took 5-6hrs on a machine with 1.5G RAM)... I tried for the first time ever to load my backup image from Norton Ghost 9.0....and wolla....15 mins....my machine was back up and running. Well...turned off the automatic updates this time....and everything seems to be working like a charm again.
Moral of the story:
Allowing Windows to automatically manage updates.....3-4hrs of torture.
Trying to back up while the update client is running in the background.....5hrs.
Using Norton Ghost to restore your system in 15mins....PRICELESS.
I worked on the Updater Block before ... and by the looks of the symptoms, it sure looks like a polished implementation of the UAB. Looking forward to it being implemented properly with ClickOnce.
Does anyone know when DotNetNuke 3.0 is going to be released officially? I know it is int Beta 2 stage....but any idea of the release date??
-S
Gmail finally has allowed POP access to gmail. Cool...huh.
You can check out the config settings (terribly simple though).
Check out the “New Features”section when u login. And whats even more cool.....they are not going to charge for POP access.....and neither do they have any plans to.....