Category: legacy

Some information has started trickling out on IIS7, the next version of Microsoft‘s web server to be included with "Longhorn". Looks like a nice tasty step forward. Predictably the Slashdot thread on the topic is full of people to mired in their groupthink to realize they are fighting a war with an enemy that was…

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Now this is cool… work with PHP code using all the power of Visual Studio! VS.Php editor for Visual Studio .Net – Jcx.Software

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Generic .NET 2.0 stuff: Download details- .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 Obsolete APIs Visual Studio 2005- Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Go-Live License for- New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005 ORM stuff: Ask TheServerSide- Which .NET ORM is best- Wilson ORMapper for .NET Gentle.Net MyGeneration – Features TechTalk releases Genome 2.0, object-relational-mapping for .NET…

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Zealotry is inherently flawed I think. At some point, your blindness to the flaws of your own position simply manage to make you look stupid and ruin your credibility. Usually the mechanism for this is hypocrisy. Slashdot is to Open Source Zealots (OSZ) what The Margins is to Radical Feminist Zealotry (RFZ)… a place where…

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Fei Fei Thats FeiFei, the cover-girl from the Shade software by e-Frontier and she has really taken on a life of her own. There is a lot of coolness in Shade, and it’s integration with Poser may make it a program to watch. FeiFei is something of a celebrity. There is a DVD available, numerous images…

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Japanese pop (Jpop) is an interesting phenomena. Add in the brutally hip sense of style, the sound of foreign voices and the productions are cool. Anyway, I came across "SweetS" (associated with "Dream"?), a sort of pop band in their pre-Britney stages. The song is catchy as are the others, the overtones obvious. Anyway, they…

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So I was helping a friend dig out some spyware tonight and I came across some cool tools. In the end, it may have fallen to HijackThis! and the cool online analysis tool to actually find the culprit. The usual tools: Microsoft Anti Spyware Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool AdAware Spybot Search and Destroy HijackThis!…

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In Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, there is a quotation that always sticks out: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" – John Galt from Atlas Shrugged, page 676 by Ayn Rand I…

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