This Old Code

After reading about these major Security holes in Vista, I am going to start the process of rolling back to my previous version of windows, sigh maybe its time to give FreeBSD a try.

Charlie Brooker wrote a nice article yesterday detailing how he hates Macs and how the choice of actors for the UK version of "Hello, I'm a Mac" are stingingly accurate.  I have to agree

Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

Now I personally feel dirty every time I have to use a Mac, dirty and homicidal. And I won't even get started about the one mouse button!  Nor do I buy this argument that hey are easy to use or more fun.  I mean Mac's don't come with Free Cell and they don't play any real games(until the game is ready for retirement, then they go visit mac users).

I am not even very impressed by the Mac's eye candy.  I have also found that if you have a problem on a Mac, they ostracize you, pretend you don't exist it seems like no one can have problems with the blessed Mac let alone find a solution to the problem.

In one of my greater moments of stupidity, I lost track of time and got ready to serve my juror summons the week after I was supposed to.  Which leads me to the need to write an apology letter and ask for a postponement of the summons.  So I start my letter with "I deeply regret to inform you that I missed my juror summons"  I know many apology letters start this way.  But what exactly do I regret? the the fact I have bad information that I need to tell you? Or the fact I have to tell you at all?  English WTF

I see from time to time a Google search for MicroFisch, now this is most likely some one unable to spell microfiche.  What boggles my mind (and no I cannot spell) Is that there are companies that sell microfisch and not microfiche(5600 ish).  Now does any one know what a MicroFisch is?  Other then my domain name.  If your not sure of the spelling and your spell check is no help type it in Google and see what you get, typically Google will tell you what you ment to search for better then any spell checker I have used.

Mark and the code rush gang have added a nice little screen cast of Refractor! asp.net refractoring

This is very neat.  The best part is that for those of you that don't have Code Rush/Refractor! Microsoft's ASP.NET team is picking up that tab for this set of refractors much the same way the VB team did.  I hear they will announce a download shortly.

After Reading Ricks troubles with OFX code generation I left a couple comments I thought would be useful for generating classes from xml/xsd.
XSDObjectGen from Microsoft. (vb or c#)
XSD.exe from Microsoft. (vb or c#)
XMLSPY from Altova. (Java, c++, c#)
CodeXS from Business Architects. ( c#) This is what i used for my MISMO mortgage application exporter. (follow the tools link.)

It's funny this idea that word and excel are good for things such as LOS or Closing/Servicing systems.
Take a look at Financial Services OBA

At the very least the diagrams are interesting.

Add AJAX to ASP.NET

By now everyone  has heard that  Microsoft was going to  pay someone to update Wikipedia entries,  at this time I don't think they did any thing wrong.  If you read the Wikipedia articles many of them have a slant and its a sin for some one with first hand knowledge to make corrections.  I have seen the Wikipedia content zares at work, adding an article  for dasBlog, and one for adding a link to dasblog to the Weblog Software article.  Take a look, I'll wait.

Now tell me how to 3 deletes win over 5 keeps? This is a serious problem many people are starting to rely on Wikipedias data, Its almost like Google where if you or your product does not show up it just doesn't exist.  Yet these self appointed hall monitors are completely unaccountable for the inaccurate information that they allow to be published.  In fact it may be worse considering Wikipedia's preference is for inaccurate information over expert accurate information.  Wikipedia is a flawed resource which is a real danger.  with luck some one will sue and put an end to it.( it was a neat idea and very promising.)

For those of us on Vista some may have noticed there is a new invisible group TrustedInstaller.  If you change ownership of a file from this group to yourself there has been no documentation regarding how to change ownership back,  Irena does a nice job describing WFP and how to restore ownership back to Trusted installer. SYSK 277: How-To Bring Back the TrustedInstaller