I must investigate this further.
Archive for April, 2007
Subversion for Visual Studio?
Monday, April 30th, 2007Having Trouble Downloading Visual Studio
Monday, April 30th, 2007I spent way too many hours trying to download the Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial
The download site says that the file is about 2.73 Gigabytes, but I keep getting only 2GB when I attemp to download. I tried it on two different machines. Windows XP – a brand new image, and a Windows 2000 machine. I have plenty of disk space for the file on the C: Drive so I have no idea why I’m only getting 2GB instead of 2.73GB.  The partitions on both machines are NTFS.
I’m thinking about abandoning the free trial and just ordering the software on physical  media because I really don’t want to waste too much more time on this. On the other hand, I’m just curious why I’m having so much trouble and I want to know the solution in case anyone asks me for help with this issue.
I also posted a message on Experts Exchange to see if someone could assist me with my problem.
Comparing Microsoft Visual Studio Products
Friday, April 27th, 2007Microsoft thinks that their “Express” versions will entice new users. What they don’t know or realize is that it will probably disgruntle more people than they attract. I cannot tell you how many times I have used “trial software” only to discover that the one feature that I need isn’t enabled.
Spiffy Corners
Monday, April 23rd, 2007The Spiffy Corners website has a nice Rounded Corners CSS code builder.
Web Browser Trouble?
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007I’ve seen it many times where someone is having trouble with Internet Explorer. One known issue on versions prior to version 7 is that if the Temporary Internet Files folder contains a lot of files, then certian functions of Internet explorer cease to function. Here is a procedure for versions prior to Version 7 of Internet Explorer to perform some Basic Internet Explorer Maintenance to clear up some common problems. This procedure also describes how to save your favorites to a HTML file so that Internet Explorer performs better.
WINHEX Hex Editor Review
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007This is by far the best windows HEX editor that I’ve found. The best features are the ability to view files over the 4GB limit. I’ve yet to find a file size that was too large for WINHEX. I’ve opened files as large as 200 Gigabytes without a problem. The WINHEX FAQ says that it is virtually unlimited and I believe that to be true.
Check out the WINHEX Features
WINHEX is great if you have the need to troubleshoot large files and need to look at the HEX view of the file to do it.
First Snipplr Submission
Monday, April 16th, 2007I submitted a small bit of code to Snipplr today. It is a function written in VB6 that uses the Windows SpecialFolders API for the MyFolders folder.
The MyDocuments folder is in a different location of different peoples machines. On my machine for example, the MyDocuments folder is C:\Documents and Settings\jeffld\My Documents but somone else may have their login name in place of jeffld.
This function returns the My Documents folder so it makes it easy to save documents into the My Documents Folder.
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Can I have your private PGP key?
Friday, April 13th, 2007I’m so surprised how many people have asked me this question. The answer is always no, you may not have my private PGP key.Â
Only Public PGP keys are shared.Â
Files must always be encrypted with the recipients public PGP key.Â
Here is how the situation came up.Â
I encrypted a file and sent it to Jack using both Jacks public PGP key and my own public PGP key. Jack sends a copy of the file to Jill. Jill is unable to open the PGP file because her public PGP key wasn’t used to create the PGP file, but Jill knows that the file is encrypted with my public PGP key because she has a copy of my public PGP key. She then asks me if she can have a copy of my private key so that she can decrypt the file. I say “no, please give your public PGP key to Jack so that he can encrypt files for you, or tell Jack that it is ok for me to include your public key when I encrypt the file.”
If Jack wants to send an encrypted file to Jill, then Jack will need to get Jill’s public PGP key from Jill. Jack will need to decrypt the file first and then encrypt it using Jill’s public PGP key.
Another option would be for me add Jill’s public key when I encrypt the file. I would need to be told that I should do this. I really don’t like doing this, but I have done it to save Jack the trouble of handling the file that he wants sent to Jill.
Is this confusing? Maybe, but it doesn’t have to be if you remember this one sentence.
Files must always be encrypted using the recipients public PGP key.
The Mandala Centre – Syntax Highlighting
Thursday, April 12th, 2007This is a syntax highlighter for HTML and PHP written in PHP that is a good back to basics example for using PHP. There are fancier syntax highlighters our there that use javascript, but I like this one because it is easy to understand and modify.
What’s a PDM?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007PDM is a product used for moving large files across platforms.
The product is made by alebra and is a partner of IBM.
http://www.alebra.com/pdm/pdm.html
I’m researching this product to possibly replace internal FTP servers.
http://www.alebra.com/lock/library2.html
The PDM product appears to be very configurable and contains benefits over FTP that might be worth the hefty price tag.Â
