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  • eyeOS on Opera

    eyeOS on Opera

    The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." There’s a new version of eyeOS… oops, I mean eyeos as they call it now. It claims to be compatible with...

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    Gmail Bug

    I’m a big fan of GMail, but I have experienced some bugs with it. For awhile, it was being very forgetful of my display images settings. (This is a feature that allows me to essentially, whitelist particular senders so that images embedded in the mail...

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  • Free Tools for Developers

    Free Tools for Developers

    Here are some free tools (mostly open source) that I use to help in my job as a software developer. Winmerge – an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files. PSPad — this is a nice code editor....

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  • Mousewheel Improvement

    Mousewheel Improvement

    Using dual monitor setups on my work and main home PCs, I’ve become increasingly frustrated by the default operation of the mousewheel. I’m hovering over my browser window, I start scrolling, only to find that the email client is scrolling on the other monitor because...

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  • Microsoft Office 2007

    Microsoft Office 2007

    Image via Wikipedia Our office finally ‘upgraded’ to Office 2007. Is it just me, or is this the most wretched piece of garbage Microsoft has created since Bob? I’ve complained before about Microsoft changing the damn icons all the time, which defeats the purpose of...

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  • Volunteering Website

    Volunteering Website

    Image via CrunchBase If you enjoy doing volunteer work, like I do, you might be interested in a new web site designed to make it easy for volunteers to find organizations that can use help. The site is: http://www.allforgood.org It is being managed and supported...

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    Everquest Now

    Ten years ago today, I entered the world of online gaming for the first time, with my purchase of Everquest. I decided to go back and take another look at the game to see how it looks today. [Translate]

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  • gimp

    Pimp Your GIMP

    One application I use is the GIMP. It’s a graphics editing program. As a semi-professional photographer, I’m well aware that the free, Open Source GIMP application lags far behind Adobe Photoshop. The two biggest problems with GIMP are its lack of color management and support...

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    System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Unspecified error

    If you are getting an error like the one below in your ASP.Net application when trying to open an Excel or Access file, you may need to reset IIS. System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Unspecified error at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection) at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection...

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    eyeOS and OpenGoo

    Previously, I have written about eyeOS which is an open source cloud computing platform. I’ve been using it for close to a year. It has some nice features, but it has been frustrating that is doesn’t have full support for my preferred web browser (Opera)....

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    Post Comments Made Easier

    Hi loyal readers. I’m trying an experiment. I’ve made it so that you don’t have to be a registered user to post a comment now. I’ve also added a captcha to the registration process and it finally got rid of the Russian Linkbots that were...

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  • Visual Studio bug: asp:UpdatePanel could not be set on property ‘ContentTemplate’

    Visual Studio bug: asp:UpdatePanel could not be set on property ‘ContentTemplate’

    So, I ran the Secunia Online Vulnerability inspector on my work PC and noticed there were over a dozen missing patches. I ran WindowsUpdate and had to reboot. After rebooting, I reloaded Visual Studio 2008 and my ASP.Net project that I’m working on. I noticed...

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