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The 2010 Rose Bowl broadcast |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, January 02 @ 06:37:14 PST (190 reads)
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 The 2010 Rose Bowl deserved some serious consideration. The game featured an Oregon team that totally went off the rails. They had a new coach in Chip Kelly, and in their first game, lost to an opponent that they should not have in Boise State. Then LaGarrette Blount did a really stupid thing in going nuts and going after Byron Hout. With the video making the rounds on every sports show and the internet, as the Boise State game was the first of the season, it looked like Oregon had a major team meltdown on their hands.
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Gridview problem DataFormatString not working Visual Studio |
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Posted by BB on Monday, February 02 @ 11:24:42 PST (3782 reads)
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 There is a bug in older versions of the .NET 2.0 framework used for Visual Studio 2005. Even if you have a DataFormatString in your Gridview object, the column may still not format. This article has been promoted from the Group29 Forums Article Gridview problem DataFormatString not working Visual Studio
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Apple iPhone vs. Samsung Saga SCH-i770 Windows Mobile 6.1 comparison |
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Posted by BB on Monday, January 26 @ 17:53:53 PST (3068 reads)
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 The first question you might be asking if you found this article: Why would you compare the Apple iPhone against the Samsung Saga SCH-i770 phone? You do the comparison because, at the simplest level, this is another battleground in the Microsoft OS/any hardware vendor vs. the all-Apple solution market share competition. In the infamous Mac vs. PC advertisements, this plays out in the personal computing space. It also plays in iPod vs Zune.
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Girl Scout Cookies 2009: Salmonella and Anti-Semitism? |
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Posted by BB on Sunday, January 18 @ 10:49:17 PST (1197 reads)
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 This is the fourth year that our daughters have been selling Girl Scout cookies as part of their membership in Girl Scouts. Ordinarily the questions are "When do we see the cookies?" (End of February in 2009), and "Should we pay now?" ("No" up until this year). However, this year we were confronted by an unsettling statement from a neighbor who usually liked to buy thin mints.
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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 (393 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 (1593 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 (755 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 (1995 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 (1926 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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Posted by BB on Friday, June 20 @ 08:29:02 PDT (5171 reads)
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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 (610 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 (898 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 (3877 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 (956 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 (690 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 (861 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 (688 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 (871 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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