03 December 2007
Thus far, I've been avoiding installing Visual Studio 2008 on my desktop for one reason... I am dreading going back to the dual Visual Studio version days. I hated back when Visual Studio 2005 came out and used to constantly be switching between 2003 and 2005. There were 3 main annoyances: Accidentally...
30 November 2007
With the release of Visual Studio 2008, I went and installed it on my laptop and have been starting to play around with .NET 3.5, LINQ, and also doing some IIS7 managed modules. The recent upgrade and prompted me to re-evaluate some of the tools I use with Visual Studio. In the past, I've been an...
26 November 2007
In the past, we've always gone to this nice musical Christmas light show up in Sacramento. We had been looking forward to going this year and taking Nick, and also wanted to get Trish's sister and our nephews to go with us. Their website hadn't been updated yet with this year's schedule...
16 November 2007
In the spirit of Dave Burke 's normal "Bits" posts, figured I'd have my first "Nick Bits" to give quick updates on the happenings in his eventful life. As a given, this post is going to be littered with links to pictures. Can't really help it. Seven weeks! Where has the...
12 November 2007
As it has been previously establish , I handle a couple of servers and a small network in a Sacramento datacenter. I had set up all kinds of internal monitoring on bandwidth, server health, etc. But one thing I never did before was to setup external monitoring. Site monitoring can be invaluable to help...
05 November 2007
The other night, was watching TV with Trish when one of the dozens of prescription drug commercials came on. Normally just ignore them, but one part of caught my ear. It was a commercial for Miraplex , which treats restless leg syndrome . The side effect was that users "may experience increased...
02 November 2007
Ohh yeah, one of the main things I love about this time of the year is Starbuck's holiday drinks, including their eggnog and gingerbread lattes. In store, I was told they weren't going to have them until November 8th, but I think that was when they're officially offering them, with signage...
28 October 2007
I must say that this morning, I was rather disappointed in Blackberry that they still haven't straightened out the whole daylight savings system. I mean come on, you would have thought that was solved back in March . Woke up this morning, just like any Sunday, got ready, headed out to church, and...
22 October 2007
It was not even a year ago that I setup my home NAS server complete with RAID, however now I am abandoning it. Previously, I had disliked Windows Home Server's idea of redundancy , however some recent events with my not-as-trust Infrant ReadyNAS NV have changed my opinion. About two months ago, I...
18 October 2007
Lately I've still been using Microsoft Money 2007, however I had never installed their stupid internet update patch and I'd noticed some issues lately with not being able to download updates. I figured they were phasing out the old service, so I would need to finally install the updates. Then...
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