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.

Mortgage Brokers suck, It hast to be official if its a Tee shirt right?

I guess America needs its scapegoat(wall street).  For a more detailed analysis of the subprime melt down I suggest you take a look at Chain Of Blame

I know its easier to read the Tee shirt then a book but I know you can do it.

I receive an error when trying to install

“Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2(KB948109)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

The windows installer error message that shows up in my event log is:

Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Update 'GDR 3068 for SQL Server Database Services 2005 ENU (KB948109)' could not be installed. Error code 1603.

The kb known issues do not seem to align with my error.

Known issues with this security update

•
If the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 installation or the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition installation is an upgrade from an earlier version of SQL Server, you should review the "Known issues with this security update" section in one of the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

948110 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948110/) MS08-040: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 GDR and MSDE 2000: July 8, 2008

948111 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948111/) MS08-040: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 QFE and MSDE 2000: July 8, 2008

•
You may receive an error message when you try to uninstall this update. For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

955250 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955250/) Error message when you try to uninstall a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition hotfix package: "1731 The source installation package for the product [2] is out of sync with the client package"

Down loaded the Update and did a manual install: Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB948109)

I also see an error from the MsiInstaller:

Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -- Error 1920. Service 'SQLWriter' (SQLWriter) failed to start.  Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

Followed these instructions on all MSSQL.n\setups in the registry:

SQL server uses local group for ACLs. When the server is installed the groups are created and their SIDs are stored in the registry. Somewhere along the way, the SID had to change and the SIDs in the registry were not valid anymore. Try to delete the values for the following values in Setup registry key the instance hive [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Setup]

The registry values are:

AGTGroup

SQLGroup

FTSGroup

ASGroup

Thanks,
Samuel Lester (MSFT)

Followed these instructions to reinstall sqlwriter:

I had the same problem, and I found an easier way:

Browse your SQL 2005 installation CD, and in the setup folder you should see a file called SQLWriter.msi (It may be in a subfolder of the setup folder - I can't remember the exact location).

Execute the msi file - it will install the missing SQL 2005 VSS Writer service.

After that your SP2 installation should succeed.

Now I have successfully Installed the hotfix.

When you set a DataGrid’s datasoure to a LinqDataSource control you still need to handle the paging event in your code behind file.  It’s also worth noting that the DataGrid does not use the Linq skip and take paging functionality.  The DataGrid will simply request all results and page them in memory.

When you over load the OnSelecting event you do not need to specify a datacontext or TableName or other query specific properties.

When you specify a css class for your GridView’s PagerStlye (PagerStyle.CssClass=”pagerStyleClass”) the rendered table row class font-size.

You will need to select the child table of this tr element  in your css

.pagerStyleClass Table{font-size: 10px;}