november 2004 - Posts

30 november 2004
Pure Pwnage

If you have ever played network or online games on your PC, XBox or PS2, you might be familiar with the term "owning" a player (or "pwning" in l33t-speak). The site Pure Pwnage hosts videos of the pro-gamer Jeremy and his boyhood friend FPS Doug. These videos cover the life of a pro-gamer, girls, the... Read More...

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28 november 2004
Printing directly from Internet Explorer without print dialog

Up until today I always thought that it was impossible to print directly (or silently) from a web page in Internet Explorer. The argument of losing control as to what you want to print seemed plausible. But I found out by Googling that it is possible. Here's how: There is an ActiveX control with CLSID... Read More...

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22 november 2004
Microsoft training materials online

Today I was pointed to the location of the MSDN Academic Alliance by Gerwin, one of my students on this week's ADO.NET course. I had no idea this site existed, but seems to provide a lot of materials for self-study. Be sure to read the legal notice at the bottom. The site can also be reached at www.msdnaa... Read More...

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22 november 2004
Some more details on Killer-Blog

Yesterday I updated Killer-Blog, so the original feeds from dasBlog are compatible again. This means that you should be reading this mail from your favorite rss-aggregator, without any updates to the syndication URL. What are some unique features of Killer-Blog, that distinguish it (more or less) from... Read More...

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16 november 2004
Switch made to KillerBlog

Finally: I made the transition to my own blogging engine: KillerBlog. Let me now what you think of it. Apologies for any inconveniences (for example with RSS readers) caused by the move. Hopefully I won't have to cause that often. Read More...

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11 november 2004
Limitations of VS.NET Web Setup project PLUS workaround(s)

Most of the ASP.NET web applications that I've developed where built on Windows XP and deployed manually. Recently I used the Web Setup project in VS.NET 2003 to create an Windows Installer .msi file and deploy an ASP.NET SAP front-end to a Windows 2003 Server machine. I had never come across the limitation... Read More...

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03 november 2004
A corny joke

This joke is just too bad for words. Only read on friday afternoon, when you are feeling totally lame. Q: “Why did the multi-threaded chicken cross the road?” A: “Other the to get side to.” A: “Side to to the get other.” A: “To side to the other get.” Update... Read More...

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03 november 2004
.NET Remoting security exception and cure/workaround

Got this question a while ago and answered it today: ”I wrote a .NET Remoting application and get the following error when trying to make a connection to the server app. How come?” Ah, one of the changes from .NET 1.0 to 1.1 is a more secure mechanism to control serialization and deserialization... Read More...

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