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[Torley's Second Life & techno music Blog] Jzhas Koureir: In that drowsy buffer between a state of full awakeness and being stoned into slumber, the digits on my wristwatch began to flicker and the display went all unstable: it looked like parts of the numbers peeled away and faded into gray nothingness until a previously readable time was an absolutely blanked state. Too tired to figure out what was going on, I closed my eyes again until really waking up some time later. Shortly after rendering myself upright, I looked back down at my watch and was surprised to see the numbers materializing again. I shook my wrist but the form came back by itself, reading a blank 12:00.
[The Life and Loves of a She Weevil] February Archive: Snow is one of my others. Unfortunately you guys at Metcheck have fallen short in the snow department this winter. Except for the stuff you promised on Christmas day which duly came but I missed because I had my hand stuck up a Turkey, none of your snow forecasts for my region (click above, on SNOW) has come to pass.
Aaron Stebner's WebLog : Issues I've seen so far with installing ...: In nearly all of the cases where SP setup hangs (such as the case described at http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/messageboard/Thread.aspx?id=260442) the underlying problem is that one of the IIS services fails to respond when setup tries to stop it. This should only happen on platforms that support ASP.NET (Windows 2000 and higher) and that have IIS installed, configured and started at the time setup is run. When the .NET Framework detects that IIS exists and is started, it attempts to stop the IIS Admin service in order to update ASP.NET configuration settings. .NET Framework setup uses a custom action to stop and start this service (because we want to only start the service at the end of setup if it was running prior to setup), but within that custom action it uses a standard Win32 API (ControlService). In most cases, opening a cmd prompt and running sc query iisadmin or sc query w3svc will show that one of these services is in the "stopping" state.
Aaron Stebner's WebLog :: The underlying cause is that there is some leftover profile registry keys/values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\<Product>\8.0. In general, user data stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive is not removed during a product uninstall. But this is also complicated by the fact that this profile data is written by the VS IDE and not by the setup MSI. Therefore setup does not have any way of knowing that the data is even there and cannot try to uninstall it. Normally the profile data will not interfere like this, but it appears there was some data written there in previous beta versions that is now incompatible since some of the code for that feature has changed since then. The most common place I have seen that show up is in VB Express (which is why I added it to the cleanup tool). In beta 1, the IDE start page showed an HTML file that was installed with the product, but in beta 2 it connects to a web site to show the start page and the local HTML file is no longer installed as a part of the product. If the registry value is present that points the start page to the local HTML file but that file is not installed, then you see a file not found error where the start page should appear.
Joe Calev's WebLog :: There are lots of ways to solve this problem, but since using balloon dimensions did not have much success I decided to start with the volume of an actual balloon. I picked one balloon that was of "average" size and traced an outline of it. The first thing I noticed that, although the balloon was 11", it was only blown up to 10". This is likely because we had too many "casualties" from balloons blown up too much, so we made them a bit smaller on purpose. To calculate the volume I traced the balloon on graph paper and assumed that the balloon was symmetrical and created by a curve rotated about the x axis. I took a representative 16 points from the curve and used a curve fitting program to give me a best fitting polynomial. I then integrated the square of the polynomial times pi to obtain the volume of the balloon. Unfortunately due to the error from tracing, the curve fitting program, and calculations I threw the result out because I felt the error was too large. I could have written a program to reduce the error but I obviously have more serious things to do.
Larry Osterman's WebLog : Windows Error Reporting and Online Crash ...: In Windows 2000 or 2003, the user can click on the icon in the notification area for permission to disconnect hardware, obtain permission to remove the USB floppy, pull out the cable, and continue working. In Windows XP, following the same procedure, Windows XP blue-screens when the cable is pulled out. When Windows XP reboots, ordinarily it does not offer to send a WER. In my experience a change of procedure yielded a WER: one time, as an experiment, I did not click the icon for permission, but simply pulled out the cable.
Ian Bicking: A Blog: Sometimes I think people have choosen Rubybecause it is less popular, because green field work is moreexciting, because they can have a larger influence on the community.I wish them well... but now that they are putting up a real fight formindshare I at least plan to meet them head-to-head, and leverageall of Python's strength that I can. I don't see any reason to snipeRails users -- you could do a lot worse than Rails, and that's not agroup ripe for conversion -- but I won't let them define themselves as the Next Big Thing in web programming without afight.
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