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I have an HP 2605dn that is a great color laserjet. It comes with a built-in duplexer and works wonderfully under Windows XP, but in Vista (64-bit in my case) the duplexer option is not available. I spent some time digging through many forum posts, none of which were helpful. One said to use the generic PCL6 driver, but that caused the printer to stop printing in color, and only offered a manual style of duplexing. I was beginning to get mad. Then I found this... http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/getattachment.do?attachmentId=289144&ext=.pdf The gist of the dcument is this... Use the HP Color LaserJet 2605/2605dn/2605dtn PS driver that comes with Vista. Right click on... [More]

I was setting up a Community Server 2008.5 staging site for a client today and needed to modify the hosts file. I went to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc and opened up the hosts file in Notepad. I added the new entry and when I went to save it, I was told that the save failed. At first I thought that the file was write protected, but no. I eventually figured out that I needed to run Notepad as an Administrator. Right click on the Notepad icon and select "Run as Administrator". I guess I have a bit of a learning curve with regards to this new UAC in Windows 7 and Server 2008. Microsoft has taken a huge hit due to lax security in the past. We will all have to learn to live with these n... [More]

For the past few years, I have been running my blog site on Radwarrior.com. I registered that domain over ten years ago and have been using it ever since. Radwarrior.com is my family's email domain and has housed my personal email for lo these many years. I created the PhillipBlanton.com in November of 2005 and just recently decided to make it my "Professional" blogging domain. Over the past ten years, I have been posting both technical and inane, stream of consciousness things to radwarrior.com. Now, I will post inane stuff to Radwarrior.com, and professional, techincal stuff to PhillipBlanton.com.

I had a situation on a website I was working on, where users enter their name and email address on a javascript modal dialog, and an email with an attachment is sent to them. The log was showing multiple attempts by the same people. the site administrator presumed that the email send operation was failing and that the user's were attempting it multiple times.

What ti actually turned out to be, was that the code that generates the email attachment, then builds and queues the email, was taking about four seconds to complete. That, combined with the postback, was pushing five seconds. the user simply thought they hadn't sufficiently clicked the button, so they were clicking it again, and again befofe the form could close.

I needed a way to disable the submit [More]