Thoughts and dreams for a better world… one smile, beat, code at a time
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Let’s Support Earth Hour 2009
Please support Earth Hour 2009. Turn off your lights or reduce energy usage on March 28, 2009 (Saturday) 8:30 – 9:30 PM. Or better yet, know and get involved and take action about climate changes and how to preserve our precious planet. Earth Hour Official Website
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philippine domains limited one year registration offer
** Philippine (.PH) domains are now available for one year registration (as opposed to being previously available in two-year registrations only). But only for a limited time so grab your .PH domains by clicking HERE now. [more] We are now offering one year domain registrations at $38.00 for a limited time (March 10, 2009 to…
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define programmer
1) pro·gram·mer (n) An organism capable of converting caffeine into code. 2) Semi-sentient being who inexplicably survives an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. Usually found in confined spaces with low lighting, at a computer terminal. 3) One who can read the following example if( !User.IsProgrammer ){ return "Everyone Else"; } Taken from UrbanDictionary
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Link: IE 8 Release Candidate 1
"Internet Explorer 8 has been designed from the ground up to be enterprise-ready. It helps reduce security risk through features such as a cross-site scripting filter, the SmartScreen® Filter, and safer controls and management of the Microsoft® ActiveX® technologies, platform, controls, scripting, and server framework. And when you download the latest RC1 software, you're automatically…
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TSQL to get SQL Server properties
TSQL script to get common SQL Server properties (edition, instancename et al) [more] SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') Collation, SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') Edition, SERVERPROPERTY('Engine Edition') EngineEdition, SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') InstanceName, SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered') IsClustered, SERVERPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled') IsFullTextInstalled, SERVERPROPERTY('IsIntegratedSecurityOnly') IsIntegratedSecurityOnly, SERVERPROPERTY('IsSingleUser') IsSingleUser, SERVERPROPERTY('IsSyncWithBackup') IsSyncWithBackup, SERVERPROPERTY('LicenseType') LicenseType, SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') MachineName, SERVERPROPERTY('NumLicenses') NumLicenses, SERVERPROPERTY('ProcessID') ProcessID, …
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My Simple Talk article on ANTS Profiler and Performance
A couple of weeks back, RedGate/SimpleTalk contacted me for a short article about ANTS Profiler. I've been using it for sometime and has definitely been very useful so I won't think twice about recommending it. Here's the link (below) and please do drop by to read it. Feel free to rate/comment Using a profiler to…
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language translation for this site
To be able to share to a wider audience I have placed Google Translation gadget at the upper left side of these pages. [more] I'm a frustrated linguist and I will try my best to write in a way that will likely to produce correct translation but forgive me if I don't. Hopefully soon I…
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Suspected Trojan or Virus qxty9be.cmd
Suspected Trojan is messing up my PC at this very moment[more] I attached my portable drive to a computer that didn't have antivirus today. The computer was working fine (at least as it seems) but I found a certain "autorun.inf" and "qxty9be.cmd" in that diks afterwards. I scanned the disk and Symantec didn't see anything!…
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GoDaddy IIS7 DotnetNuke Joomla WordPress
UPDATE (2/2/09): GoDaddy even on deluxe/premium/unlimited hosting accounts, applications (eg. .NET application root) is configured as virtual directories. Thus the ApplicationRootPath is still rooted on the ROOT of the hosting disk space. This makes sense I think and so even if domain points to say ROOT/subfolderA, Response.Redirect("~/Page.aspx") will still point to <domain>/subfolderA/Page.aspx and it will…
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BlogEngine.NET migrating to IIS 7
This blog running on BlogEngine.NET (and the its parent/main site) is now running on IIS 7 Integrated Mode and would like to share a little of my experience. There were two major issues with I migrated these blog to IIS 7 [more] 1) Server Error in / Application – Request is not available in this…
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