There seem to be a movement that would like to sell you on the idea of social networks marketing( The Power of Web 2.0 in Your Hands ).  But before you shell out the cash and join the social network revolution.  I think you should read Particle Physics, Mortgage, and Unconventional Advice .   My opinion, if your passionate about your work and love talking about it, blog.  The rest will come naturally.

Firefox 3 makes a call to your anti virus software to scan your down loaded file.  This typically results in a double scan or an unnecessary scan when you trust the download source.

There is no intuitive way to disable this feature but thanks to gHacks I was able to find a configuration setting for this feature.

You can navigate to about:config in Firefox and double click the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to set its value to false.  No more time wasted scanning the file.

What I find disturbing is that Lloyds is storing the password in plain text in their database and employees have access to that account data.

read the story at bbc

Why aren't asp.net blogs engines as popular as moveable type, blogger, typepad or wordpress?  The asp.net applications seem to almost hide from public discussions.  Is it the windows platform?  Our open source communities faltering?  Or lack of free hosting?

The Mac Book hard drive tanked tonight.  I think Apple has quality control issues to address, there seems to be a lot of this type of thing going around the school district.  We took it to the Apple store for a "genius" to fix(yea no files could be recovered!).  To bad the district will want to put their kooky build of Tiger back on the re-imaged Mac Book.  While The Apple employees were very nice and not smug at all, it was still a culture shock to go into the store.  I am so do not fit in that sub culture.  I still find it ironic that the Apples in my house cause more grief then the pcs.

If you want to maintain a web presents but don’t have the time/ability/knowledge to write your own ideas/content.  Go home and forget about it.  When you run content that comes from a third party you look like a fool not a domain expert.  Especially when your competitors use the same service.  Yes you can change the site skin but ultimately you only embarrass your self and profession.

Second.  If you buy blog hosting service, you are getting ripped off every month for your ignorance.

It seems that when using a LinqDataSource with a GridView control you cannot handle Paging even when AutoPage is set to false.
I receive the following message

AutoPage is disabled on LinqDataSource “Control Name Here” but paging has not been handled

In the LinqDataSource selecting event I can set e.Arguments.RetrieveTotalRowCount = false and receive no errors.  But now no results are returned.

It has taken a very long time but we finally have the merger of Sirius and XM Radio into Sirius XM Inc.

full article as the Washington Business Journal Now that they are done being abused by the FCC merger approval process I expect its time for us their customers to be abused.

 

Calyx is getting ready to release Point 6.2. This is a compliance release to meet the 10/1/2008 mandatory date for forms. What will this release include?
1) New FHA Transmittal Summary to meet mandatory compliance date of 10/1/2008.
2) Updated CA MLDS form to comply with latest regulations.
3) Return to Legal Size GFE with enhanced GFE summary information on the bottom of the legal size form.
4) Updated FHA/VA Addendum to meet mandatory compliance date of 10/1/2008.
5) Over 40 additional fixed issues, including:
* Omit checkbox on liabilities will exclude payment and balance in debt ratios.
* Ability to export the 3 Loan Comparison scenarios for use in custom forms.
* Property Address automatically populates TIL for "You are giving a security interest
in" field.
* Printing to PDF support for 64-bit operating systems.
* Credit Scores auto-populate when ordering credit through Fannie DO/DU.
* And more...
If you qualify as a beta tester, you'll receive the complete list of issues fixed and a full, working copy of Point 6.2 beta to install on as many computers as needed for testing.
You will benefit from beta testing by receiving an early release of the software to do your in-house testing, before installing for all users. You'll have a chance to help improve the product by providing feedback, and you'll be included for future beta test calls.
How do you qualify to be a beta tester?
1) Your organization must be current on their Point subscription.
2) Have a willingness to spend time testing beta software and provide feedback.
Please e-mail me at pointbeta@calyxsoftware.com, by August 11, if you would like to participate.
Regards,
Bryan
Point Product Manager

My Qa staff found an odd issue when running our Point product on Vista x64 they would receive a “The decryption operation failed, see inner exception”

error message when Point communicated with Its server via a soap webservice. I didn’t think this was a bug in our code since It works on my vista x64 just fine. The previous version worked with out any issues on this box and there was no code changes in this section of our product.  Since this was a qa box I pulled out my new friend windbg and had a go at digging out the stack trace.  I have to remember for future reference that Point is a 32bit application and that I need to use windbg for 32bit even though the os is x64.

I was able to get the full print of the exception at hand by starting Point with windbg and running to first “first chance exception”.  Here is what !PrintException found.

Exception type: System.IO.IOException
Message: The decryption operation failed, see inner exception.
InnerException: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception, use !PrintException 03d39900 to see more
StackTrace (generated):
    SP       IP       Function
    0017A7DC 7A5B3CB9 System_ni!System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[], Int32, Int32)+0x149
    0017A88C 08FE6F9E Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.Dime.DimeRecord.ForceRead(System.IO.Stream, Byte[], Int32)+0x26
    0017A8A8 08FE69B0 Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.Dime.DimeRecord.ReadHeader()+0x28
    0017A8CC 08FE68D0 Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.Dime.DimeRecord..ctor(System.IO.Stream, Int32)+0x78
    0017A8E0 08FE66B5 Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.Dime.DimeReader.ReadRecord()+0x3d
    0017A8EC 08FE63A0 Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.Messaging.SoapDimeFormatter.Microsoft.Web.Services2.Messaging.ISoapFormatter.Deserialize(System.IO.Stream)+0x40
    0017A904 08F4CFFA Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.InputStream.GetRawContent()+0x5a
    0017A91C 08F4CF76 Microsoft_Web_Services2!Microsoft.Web.Services2.InputStream.Read(Byte[], Int32, Int32)+0x16
    0017A930 7949806E mscorlib_ni!System.IO.StreamReader.ReadBuffer(Char[], Int32, Int32, Boolean ByRef)+0x4e
    0017A950 79497FC7 mscorlib_ni!System.IO.StreamReader.Read(Char[], Int32, Int32)+0x7f
    0017A974 637E6FDC System_Xml_ni!System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ReadData()+0x298
    0017A984 637EFFD1 System_Xml_ni!System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.InitTextReaderInput(System.String, System.IO.TextReader)+0xb9
    0017A998 637EFEFA System_Xml_ni!System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl..ctor(System.String, System.IO.TextReader, System.Xml.XmlNameTable)+0x5e
    0017A9B4 637EFE76 System_Xml_ni!System.Xml.XmlTextReader..ctor(System.IO.TextReader)+0x46
    0017A9CC 08F4CC90 System_Web_Services!System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.GetReaderForMessage(System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapClientMessage, Int32)+0x88
    0017A9E4 08F4C495 System_Web_Services!System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapClientMessage, System.Net.WebResponse, System.IO.Stream, Boolean)+0x1e5
    0017AA68 080BF5EE System_Web_Services!System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(System.String, System.Object[])+0xce
    0017AAAC 08FE6218 AesLib!CalyxPointLib.pdsdev55.pdsfunctions55Wse.GetArchivedTemplateSet(CalyxPointLib.pdsdev55.pdsRequest)+0x30
    0017AABC 08FE59CF Winpoint!<Module>.CPDSClient2.GetTemplateBlob(CPDSClient2*, ATL.CStringT<char,StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > >*)+0x237

Now lets see what is in the ComponentModel.Win32Exception is:

Exception object: 03d39900
Exception type: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception
Message: The token supplied to the function is invalid
InnerException: <none>
StackTrace (generated):
<none>
StackTraceString: <none>
HResult: 80004005
The current thread is unmanaged

When searching Google for “The token supplied to the function is invalid” and “The decryption operation failed” I found it only associated with ssl connection issues.  My current working theory is that the ssl connection is closing during the transfer of a large binary object.  Since this seems rather low on the stack I first installed dot net 3.5 to get the latest dot net 2.0 service pack.  This didn’t correct the issue.  I still think this issue is in some low level code for tcp/ip or http. I searched for windows updates.  Turns out this version of vista is not sp1 after installation of the Vista service pack every thing works well.  I wish I could dig up the fix in sp1 so i could better understand the true issue.  In hind sight I neglected to install the service pack because i didn’t want to wait for it to down load.  My lesson for the day is always patch the system then debug.