January 2005 Entries
Well, that was quick. I found a solution for the comment spam problem. I’ve added a control that requires the user to input a code to post comments. The great thing about it is that there was no code to recompile. The control is the Clearscreen HIP Control. To install the control on your .Text blog copy the dll to your bin directory, add one line of code to your web.config and modify your postcomment.aspx file to include the control. It’s really, really simple. For more information on the control visit Miguel Jimenez’s blog and view this post and...
I really, really hate comment spam. Recently the ol’ blog has been hit pretty hard by comment spam. I’ve deleted the spam within hours but like an evil ex-girlfriend it keeps coming back. Which is why I need to do something about it, quickly. So I’ll be upgrading the .Text blog software to the new version of community server. .Text was written and maintained by Scott Watermasysk. Last year Scott started working for Telligent Systems and started working on .Text, now community server: blogs, full time. (For more info on community server: blogs see this post.) So be prepared...
Who was the brainaic who did this? Someone apparently has created a version of Pac-Man in Excel. Why? The dev used each cell as one pixel to create the game. Cool but dumb. (via Chris and Scott.)Now Playing: Steve Taylor - This Disco (Used to be a Cute Cathedral)
I installed Community Server Forums yesterday to kick its tires a bit, when I ran into the client side script problem again. I’ve seen this before so I ran aspnet_regiis –c to fix the problem. Instead, I received another problem aspnet_regiis -c was giving me an error of:
An error has occurred (0x80070005).You must have administrative rights on this machine in order to run this tool.
Yay. So I tried Google…nothing. Google groups...nothing. MSDN…nothing. I decided to post a message to the MSDN newsgroups. Within ten minutes I received a response and within seventy an answer. Here is the response from Juan:
Find...
ExtremeTech has posted a four part article on display technologies. I for one have been completely blown away by the variety of different technologies in the flat-panel arena. Just walk into your favorite electronic store and ask them the difference between plasma, LCD, rear-projection and DLP. Your eyes will be glazed before he finishes a sentence. The article is very technical and is written like an academic paper. (Which makes sense since a PhD wrote it.) I suggest that you skip parts one, two and three and jump right into part four. Part four reviews the different display technologies and gives...
Microsoft has released their new AntiSpyware application. I must say that the app looks great. Be aware that this is beta software so install at your own risk.
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