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s many of you know, my eldest daughter works for Apple. This afternoon she texted me four words that stopped me in my tracks... "Steve jobs is dead" [More]

HP recently announced that they are exiting the PC business. HP is the number one manufacturer of computers that run Microsoft Windows, so that is a blow to Microsoft and good news for Apple. Unfortunately it is also a blow to freedom, as MS Windows, and other operating systems like Linux, mean more freedom for computer users, while Apple and the Apple OS tend toward locked down systems, tyrranical control and loss of freedom. [More]

Open a command prompt and type, "net user administrator /active:yes" and then press enter. When you log out and log back in, you'll have the option of selecting the Administrator account.

If you have tried to install SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition on Windows 7, you have probably spent all day (like me) getting the following error... "The process does not possess the ‘SeSecurityPrivilege’ privilege which is required for this operation." [More]

Last Friday, I was sent the link by a coworker and was initially fooled by GMail Motion and I wanted it! The further I got into the video though, the more I realized that the date carried an ominous message. Microsoft's April Fool's joke was easier to spot, but didn't make me cry, "WANT!" like the gmail one did. I now DEMAND that Google make a GMail Motion product that at least allows me to gesture in order to manage my gmail messages. The part about actually typing messages using gestures is stupid, unless it can learn American Sign Language. A great first step would be the ability to open, reply, reply all, delete, etc.. Google... GET ON IT! You pranked me and it tuned into work. MAKE IT SO! Update: 4/7/2011A hobbyist took his Kinect module and wrote up a little code that allows him to control GMail with gestures. Mostly like in Google's April Fool's day joke! See the video here.

I discovered that port 25 was being blocked by my ISP. Apparently Qwest had just decided to block that port for me, with no notice, or warning or anything. Just BAM! blocked. [More]

I downloaded and installed the excellent and FREE Axosoft product, Rocket SVN Server. I am highly appreciative of Axosoft for making such a great product and making it available for FREE! I also use AxoSoft Ontime for which I pay. They make great developer products and I hope they have a nice long, and lucrative life. However, the decisions they made regarding how I should use it, are maddening. [More]

I like to use the MailTo link on my website. It is handy for legitimate users to click a link and email me. The downside is that it's easy for the spam bots to harvest your email address from the page, and inundate you with penis [More]