· Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, 9:38 PM · 292 words ·
While using Cloanto’s Amiga Forever to massage the source code for Rend24 into something that actually compiles*, I was amazed at the basic functionality we had to live without during the time I did Amiga development.
· Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, 7:09 PM · 90 words ·
Is this normal for a home router? :) I get a report every week filled with scary-sounding log messages like the ones below. I guess it’s good to see that these things are caught, but it makes one wonder what kinds of things are not getting caught.
· Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, 4:09 PM · 324 words ·
Recently I put an old 1.8GHz P4 computer in the living room to use as a dedicated media player for music, pictures and video. As an experiment, I first tried to install Ubuntu Linux as the operating system, thinking the Linux desktop had surely matured enough by now to perform this simple task.
· Thursday, Jan 24, 2008, 7:38 PM · 89 words ·
I started upgrading an ASP.NET 1.1 project to 2.0, and I got this error: "Unrecognized attribute 'requirePermission' (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config line 14)"
· Sunday, Jun 14, 2009, 9:27 PM · 2,379 words ·
Lately I’ve been on a crusade to digitally sign my emails. I tried some free email certificates from StartSSL and Thawte, but neither one was quite what I wanted (they just show an email address with something like a generic “free member” as the common name). So I decided to try making my own certificate authority with OpenSSL. There are tons of resources on the Internet for doing this, but in this magnum opus I’m attempting to distill it all down into one place.
· Sunday, Jun 14, 2009, 10:57 AM · 177 words ·
For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out how to send digitally signed emails in Windows Live Mail (or Windows Mail) in Vista. Both consistently reported, “The message could not be sent. An error has occurred.&rdquo.
· Monday, May 18, 2009, 7:34 PM · 250 words · · 1 comment
If you’re having trouble with Internet Explorer 8 not opening links in Vista, try running IE once as an Administrator.
· Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8:04 PM · 267 words ·
One of the reasons we all had to leave the Amiga behind as our main PC was the inability of the tiny Amiga developer community to keep up with the armies of Windows developers and consumer demand.
· Saturday, May 9, 2009, 6:32 PM · 124 words · · 4 comments
I just looked at my home page to find it reporting a database error. “Incorrect usage of SUBQUERY and feature is disabled by allow_view_trigger_sp_subquery in /etc/my.cnf”.
· Sunday, May 3, 2009, 8:21 PM · 250 words ·
Recently I upgraded the software running my home page. I spent a fair amount of time adding a feature I called “nano posting,” which was essentially a way to insert Twitter-style updates into the stream of posts. In the intervening time I’ve discovered that I don’t much like my implementation of that feature.
· Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009, 8:59 PM · 366 words ·
As an experiment, I’ve been working on setting up CruiseControl.NET at work, but I’ve run into a few annoying snags.
· Sunday, Feb 15, 2009, 7:01 PM · 397 words · · 2 comments
I've heard about "virtualization" for years, but I never thought it was anything I needed to worry about. I just thought it was something for network engineers to tinker with in big, expensive data centers. It turns out there are plenty of handy uses for virtualization, using Microsoft's Virtual PC, in your everyday computing life.
· Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009, 9:32 PM · 318 words · · 8 comments
Some time ago I wrote about the merits of Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007. This time I’m going to write about Sun VirtualBox, which has an advantage over VPC: It can run Linux distros without crashing.
· Thursday, Mar 26, 2009, 5:53 PM · 89 words ·
As part of my continuing effort to take over the world, I’ve created my own personal url-shortening service: http://uvurl.net.
· Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009, 9:44 PM · 299 words ·
I’ve been listening to a lot of tech podcasts lately, and I find it fascinating to hear that there is just as much of a “bubble” in Silicon Valley as there is inside the Beltway.
· Sunday, Mar 22, 2009, 10:42 PM · 138 words ·
I posted uvBlog 2.0 (the PHP code that runs thomaskrehbiel.com) on Google Code under the GPL3 license. That basically means you can use it as long as you release the source code, too.
· Thursday, Mar 19, 2009, 8:39 PM · 1,887 words · · 11 comments
I started looking for a PHP IDE again to replace the venerable TextPad. Last year I looked at NuSphere’s PhpEd, which was actually not bad but I couldn’t bring myself to spend $100+ on it just to get a little Intellisense. Now I’m looking at Eclipse with PHP Development Tools (PDT), which is free and open source.
· Sunday, Mar 15, 2009, 3:38 PM · 325 words · · 5 comments
I recently upgraded my home computer to a 2.6GHz AMD Athlon X2 5050e with 4GB of memory. Parts for this upgrade, including a whole new case, motherboard and hard drive, cost about $350.
· Thursday, Mar 12, 2009, 9:36 PM · 431 words ·
Just so there’s a record of it, here’s how I’m planning to implement comments in the new blog platform. It’s geared toward a small community size.
· Saturday, Feb 28, 2009, 9:55 PM · 257 words · · 10 comments
I’ve setup a new development PC, so I thought it was time once again to review the software I normally install and use for development (I last did this in December 2007).
· Monday, Feb 23, 2009, 10:06 PM · 653 words · · 4 comments
I bought a Zune last week. Yeah, a Zune. Big woop. Wanna fight about it?
· Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009, 5:27 PM · 174 words · · 3 comments
I came across a situation where I wanted to rename a Windows service that had already been installed. (In this case I wasn't able to rebuild the application to alter the service installation properties, which would of course be the ideal solution.) Google was spectacularly unhelpful, so this is how you do it.
· Monday, Feb 16, 2009, 5:48 PM · 206 words ·
In case anyone uses it, there's been some minor changes to the Aggravator lately.
· Sunday, Jan 4, 2009, 8:54 AM · 1,677 words · 3 comments
We bought an HP Pavilion dv6707 notebook (1.9GHz Athlon 64 X2) in April, but it's been having some overheating problems that have finally gotten to the point where they can't be overlooked anymore. It displays all the classic overheating signs: The fan runs really loud all the time, and sometimes it cuts off and won't restart until it sits quietly in the corner for a while.
· Thursday, Dec 27, 2007, 9:45 PM · 269 words ·
Here's a quick Vista tip: Make sure the built-in Administrator account is enabled with a password before you go and remove your normal login from the Administrators group.
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Tom is a veteran software developer who started out on a Color Computer, progressed to an Amiga, and now develops desktop and web applications for the Microsoft .NET platform. He also likes to dabble in PHP, PC gaming, writing, music and art in his spare time.
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