Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Last night My Linksys WRT54GS had the strangest issue.  All of the wireless systems were getting my full broad band connection speed how ever any of the wired connections were only pulling 1.5-3mb.

I updated my firmware from 1.50.5 to 1.52.2 every thing works fine now.  However I attribute this to the router rebooting itself rather then any thing firmware related.  With a little luck this issue won't come back on the new firmware.

It had to be a strange bug since before the reboot I was speed testing at 1.9mbs and after I received 19mbs. Kind of looks like if forgot to carry a 10 some where.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:42:14 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

In June of 2006 I purchased a new HP media center pc( it arrived in August), every thing was great until November when the Video card fan started making loud sounds at start up and an odd raspy sound after that(sounds like the fan's bearings on the video cards are bad).  I guess the 7600 would rather be a race car or airplane.  I had the card replaced ( Horrible customer service from HP first tier of support ). 13 months later December of 2007 the new video card decided it was a race car as well and exhibited all the same symptoms(HP support lost a life long customer after this tech support phone call).  An now when I turned on the pc this card new for only 3 weeks decides it wants to be a race car. I really don't want to call HP and spend another 4 days on a support call.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:30:46 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Monday, January 21, 2008

Microsoft's new agile pace is just killing me.  I'm glad that sp1 will be out some time in the foreseeable future but.  I don't want thing about upgrading to vs 10 in another 18 months. 

C# Debugging Improvements for VS 2008 SP1- Part 1

 

posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, January 21, 2008 5:18:07 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

When we first started using Ajax we noticed some difficulty getting the resources  to work with our HTTP compression filter.  Now I have a better understanding of what issues are luring thanks to Carloc Ajax resource intermittently not accessible (http compression)

This means that Ajax does support compression for Internet Explorer 7 but it does not support compression for Internet Explorer 6. Why?

Well, the fact is that IE6 has some serious troubles with compressed content, and those issues have been resolved in IE7:

Another release containing several fixes is in the latest Windows Script 5.7 which contains updates for jscript parser:

 

I never realized IE6 had so many compression issues.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, January 21, 2008 11:18:02 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Looks like some documentation has been published for the elusive Point SDK.

http://Dev.CalyxSoftware.com

posted by Aaron Fischer on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:23:29 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Monday, January 07, 2008

For some reason Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to only let us control the time tolerance in WSE 2.0 and 3.0 via the app.config file. ie

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="microsoft.web.services2" type="Microsoft.Web.Services2.Configuration.WebServicesConfiguration, Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
  </configSections>
  <microsoft.web.services2>
    <security>  
      <timeToleranceInSeconds>86400</timeToleranceInSeconds>  
    </security>    
   <diagnostics/>
   </microsoft.web.services2>
</configuration>
 
This isn't always a practical option.  In this case I have a DLL that needs to make a WSE web service call.  Its not realistic for all my clients to add this information to their app.config files.  And I am far to lazy to document it.
So enter reflection, We need to add a few lines of code to our  WSE web service inherited classes constructor.
public class MyWebServicWse : Microsoft.Web.Services2.WebServicesClientProtocol
{
    public  MyWebServicWse()
    {
        Type.GetType( "Microsoft.Web.Services2.Security.Configuration.SecurityConfiguration, Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35", true, true )
        .GetField( "_timeToleranceInSeconds", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic )
        .SetValue( null, TimeSpan.FromSeconds((double) 86400) ); //86400 == a 24 hour time span.
    }
}
posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, January 07, 2008 3:40:43 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

If you haven't seen it istartedsomethign posted Bill's Video from CES 2008.  Its hilarious.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, January 07, 2008 9:01:19 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

Somasegar Mentions that Microsoft will be providing a Silverlight viewer for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympics, but I don't really care about the technology.  What I find more impressive is the new coverage options we will see for this years Olympics.

As a part of this, we will provide users with exclusive access to over 3000 hours of live and on-demand video content via Silverlight streaming.  This means that viewers can access every minute of every event.  Additionally, the amount of meta-data attached to each of the streams will be extensive and include links to player bios, medal counts, shortcuts to particular events (i.e. athlete x’s third long-jump attempt), maps of the Olympic facilities, pop-up overlays with real-time event alerts, headlines, video search capabilities, etc. 

I look forward to coverage I can choose rather than NBC's homologous Male/Female coverage.  Its going to rock just watching the events I care about.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, January 07, 2008 8:59:44 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Friday, January 04, 2008

It seems that when joining sear's SHC community you are installing a proxy server for ie that redirects all your Internet traffic through Sears servers.  What a brilliant Idea that was.  read more At Spyware sucks and Schneier on Security

posted by Aaron Fischer on Friday, January 04, 2008 11:25:52 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Always upgrade Refactor! first followed by CodeRush, so that CodeRushes install does not uninstall Refactor! and you have to reenter the serial number.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:29:18 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]