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UCLA vs USC Preview December 6, 2008 |
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Posted by BB on Sunday, December 07 @ 16:32:27 PST (54 reads)
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 This is the annual Group29 preview of the upcoming UCLA / USC rivalry game to be played at the Rose Bowl Stadium on December 6th 2008. Since the previews started, the USC Trojans have been on a series of top 10 finishes. Without exception, USC has been the predicted winner. Our favorite past prediction had been "The Bruins could not win this game with machetes".
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Visual Basic to C# tricks, #Develop (SharpDevelop) |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, September 25 @ 08:55:30 PDT (410 reads)
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 It is surprising how close together VB.NET and C#.NET are as
programming languages. Each uses the Microsoft .NET Framework. The classes are
addressed identically with intellisense working on both. The most obvious differences are the way code
blocks are broken, as C# is a curly brace language.
In an earlier Group29.com Forum Post, SharpDevelop (#develop) - .NET GUI IDE FREE!, there are notes about a free tool called SharpDevelop.
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Should I sign the back of my credit card? |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, September 23 @ 14:03:46 PDT (218 reads)
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 Yes, it is a way to prevent credit card fraud.
See the Visa Risk Management site for merchants who accept credit cards:
http://usa.visa.com/merchants/risk_management/card_present.html
When a merchant accepts credit cards, the merchant is responsible for checking identities, because it is the merchant who loses out of fraudulent purchases. If someone steals a credit card and purchases a Snow Blower at a hardware store, the former owner of the credit card is not liable. It usually (in my experience) results in a cancellation of your existing credit card, and issuance of a new credit card.
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Fun: The Web Site is Down surface psychoanalysis |
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 Some clever folks assembled by Josh Weinberg have put together a 10-minute comedy video called Sales Guy vs. Web Dude, also known as The Web Site is Down. Although this is now classified as an Internet meme, I still thought to write about it and describe how some of the psychology works in that dynamic.
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Fun: Matchbox Superfast 2008 new models available! |
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 A new line of Matchbox Superfast branded models is appearing in Wal Mart stores for the summer of 2008. These models consist of the car outside the box in a rectangular clear cellophane box. There are 10 of these boxes loaded into a flat cardboard display box.
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Incorrect Syntax near nvarchar SQL Server VB.NET |
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Posted by BB on Monday, August 04 @ 08:59:00 PDT (515 reads)
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 While testing an application that uses a Gridview control to connect to
a SqlDataSource control using Visual Studio .NET 2005, I ran into a
problem.
Incorrect Syntax near nvarchar.
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How did I get the XP AntiVirus 2008? |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, July 03 @ 12:58:46 PDT (1194 reads)
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One of the computers in our household obtained a drive-by virus infection recently. This particular infection is one of the famous backdoor Trojans that arrive by exploiting browser security from a web site that would otherwise seem harmless. The web site in question already was infected by the server SQL Injection exploit, which was replacing the web pages with ones that framed the content and contained malware JavaScript.
The computer in question was running Windows XP service pack 2, in a non-administrative account, with a 20-day old Symantec Antivirus 7.x virus list.
Why would anyone bother? In this case, the software that was loaded had all sorts of powers. It was malware, spy ware, and blackmail ware all in a blended threat. One piece attempts to open a back door to your computer, so that it can be controlled in a botnet. A botnet can be used to send internet traffic such as denial of service attacks, spam emails, and deliver other content. Another malware program brings in other software that shows up and attempts to blackmail you into buying it so that your computer will continue to work.
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How do I find the name of my Primary Domain Controller (PDC)? |
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How do I find the name of my Primary Domain Controller, and how do I find out which domain controller I logged into? The answer is in VBScript.
Copy the following code into notepad and save it as a file called "findDC.vbs"
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What is bluetooth? (What the heck is bluetooth?) |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, June 04 @ 09:25:12 PDT (275 reads)
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Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs), also known as IEEE 802.15.1. Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices like personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and video game consoles via a secure, globally unlicensed short range radio frequency.
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New iPhone for Group29 |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, May 07 @ 10:45:30 PDT (422 reads)
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Fix your MP3 files for iTunes, iPod, iPhone and get album art |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 18 @ 11:00:32 PDT (1228 reads)
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 What do you do if you have a bunch of songs ripped from various sources, and you load them into your iPod or iPhone and now the nifty sorting and album art features are not working? The key is to tag your song files properly. Each song file actually has some text information (an ID3 tag) stored inside the file that tells iTunes what the artist, song title, album name, genre and year are.
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Goliath at the speed of David - Microsoft Launch 2008: Servers + Visual Studio 2 |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 11 @ 12:39:24 PDT (399 reads)
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This is part 2 of 2 of Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 - "Goliath at the speed of David". This part includes the breakout session and some of the other Microsoft topics including ForeFront, Expression, Silverlight 2, and the different packages for Windows Server 2008.
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TSA and assistive animals |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, April 10 @ 21:11:37 PDT (314 reads)
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| .This article by Kim Ode ("Kim Ode: Coffee, tea or a great slobbering dog?") in the Minneapolis Star Tribune October 25th 2003 prompted me to contact Northwest Airlines Media Relations.
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Goliath at the speed of David - Microsoft Launch 2008: Servers + Visual Studio |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, April 09 @ 14:56:42 PDT (495 reads)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
On April Fools day 2008, I attended the traveling launch show for Microsoft Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. I already watched the online sessions in the virtual launch at the heroshappenhere.com site, so I had some insight as to what to expect. This show had an improvement over the previous Visual Studio and Windows releases at the Minneapolis Convention center. This time the vendor display was off the main level and moved down to Hall A in the lower level. This kept it much more low key and less like a circus.
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TSA and Security Theater wrecking air travel |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 04 @ 08:25:53 PST (341 reads)
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| The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a U.S. government agency that was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 19, 2001. The TSA provides security at airports in the United States. Many columnists are saying what amounts to this:
what the TSA staff is doing is "security theater" or making a big show
while appearing to accomplish very little except collecting huge bins
of personal grooming products.
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Historic Final Four, with all number one seeds in 2008 |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, April 02 @ 10:37:10 PST (348 reads)
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 This NCAA tournament this year has provided very few surprises compared to the 2006 tournament. This is the first year that all my final four picks have made it to the Final Four. This skewers the experts, because all of the grandmas out there have the number one seeds in the Final Four.
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UCLA wins 2008 Pacific 10 conference championship and tournament, and is #1 seed |
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Posted by BB on Friday, March 21 @ 12:52:27 PST (516 reads)
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Over the years, the NCAA has added more games to the college basketball season back from 24, then 26, then 28. In addition, the PAC-10 brought back the conference tournament. The possibility now exists that a team is going to play 32-34 games. A team with twenty wins is no longer a lock for the NCAA tournament. UCLA has won 31 games, a school record for the pre-NCAA tournament. They won both the regular season and tournament.
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SQL schema version changed between compilation execution |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, February 26 @ 03:38:53 PST (711 reads)
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Using Microsoft SQL Server 2000. You may see this strange type of error. This is the OLE DB error reported from an ASP.NET web page
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The OLE DB provider 'SQLOLEDB' reported a schema version for table '"{your table here}"' that changed between compilation and execution. OLE DB error trace [Non-interface error: Schema version number changed from compile time ({number}) to run time ({new number}) for ProviderName='SQLOLEDB' TableName='"{your table here}"'.].
This article has been bumped from the Group29 Tech tips forums.
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Fun: Bonerama III: Bringing It Home |
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 The third release "Bringing it Home" from the New Orleans trombone group Bonerama, brings more of their Posaune-centric power into your home for your own personal enjoyment. With the first two albums, my favorites have been the arrangements of power rock tunes like Frankenstein, Whipping Post, and Crosstown Traffic. With this album they bring in a great Led Zeppelin classic: Ocean. They return to record live in New Orleans after recording their second album in New York City.
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College football 2007 post mortem |
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Posted by BB on Friday, January 11 @ 05:20:08 PST (444 reads)
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I lost interest in the college football season as soon as the bowl pairings were announced. I wanted to see USC play Ohio State, not USC vs. Illinois and Ohio State vs. LSU. Also, why did Hawaii have to play in the Sugar Bowl? It would seem that the BCS really did set up the bowl pairings so that there would be no threat of controversy. Imagine a one loss Kansas team beating USC or Georgia if Missouri and Oklahoma win out too. Who’s your number one now? The BCS made the perfect pairing in the 2006 Rose Bowl, but otherwise I contend that it is actually worse than the original conference alignments. Bring back the Big Ten/Pac-10 Rose Bowl!
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