Bill Bosacker

Generic Issues with Windows

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:57:00 GMT

This is one of those posts to just keep a personal record of things that popup and are difficult to find answers to. As items are added, the date of this post will also be updated. Issues: CTRL + SHIFT + 0 (zero) not working under Vista & Windows...(read more)

TFS Red "X"s on Reports

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:40:00 GMT

This is mostly a reference for the next time that I need to rebuild my workstation, but one of the causes for this is a bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 service pack. You need to run the service pack installation twice in order for it to correctly update...(read more)

AT&T up to it's old tricks again

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:30:00 GMT

Hey All, 48 hours later and we're back online. AT&T disconnected our DSL service, AGAIN! Fortunately, this time I was able to get new lines installed within 48 hours of the disconnect. Some lacky at AT&T didn't read his email, which lead...(read more)

Update: October 2, 2009

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Hey Everyone, It's been a while since I've blogged at all as there have been quite a few things going on lately. First off, the JawberDoo.com site is almost complete. The basic jawb searching is working and allows you to search by Jawb Industry...(read more)

Umbraco: The not so friendly (anti-Karma) community

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:15:00 GMT

UPDATE 07/26/2009: Thanks to the comment posted by Gabe Sumners, this week of loss due to Umbraco was not in vein. Sitefinity is an AWESOME product. It only took about 5 hours to integrate the entire project with Sitefinity , and for about 1/5 ( $899...(read more)

.NET Tweeks

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:53:00 GMT

The latest .NET Tweeks post is now out and is the first of a multi-part series of Tweeks that developers can use in their everyday development of ASP.NET applications. This week it covers the PageBase idea and how to integrate it with master pages. Next...(read more)

SPAM HELL!!!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:57:00 GMT

Over the past few months it appears that a few of the DNSBLs that I had been using, decided to go offline. Hundreds of SPAM messages were getting through. Outlook picked up many of them, but it also has a lot of false positives, so I needed to go through...(read more)

JawberDoo?

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:31:00 GMT

In my spare time I have been working on a new web site that I was hoping to have ready 4 weeks ago. With everything that has been going on, and some bugs that I have discovered in Visual Studio, the project is taking longer that expected. A friend of...(read more)

BeHeard.com is ON-LINE!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:13:00 GMT

We just turned on the switch (thankfully missing the red button - whew!) and BeHeard.com is ON-LINE! The site currently in a public beta phase with blogs and forums while numerous expanded features will be added as they become available. Now you might...(read more)

Apple Commercial: Legalese

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I'm sure that you've all seen the latest Apple commercial that has been running for a few weeks, where you see legalese scrolling up the screen, but did you realize that the legalese is for Apple? It's an Apple commercial with Apple making...(read more)

asp:Menu fix for IE8

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:43:00 GMT

As most people know, IE8 was written to be as compliant with the W3C standards as possible, which means that existing sites may not work properly when view from IE8 in Standards mode. All of the Server-side asp controls appear to be compliant with the...(read more)

WAP and sub-projects

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:16:00 GMT

While discussing a new project today, one thing that came up was the behemoth of an application that Community Server has become and the idea that we don't want Sueetie to go in that same direction. A few years ago, you could say WAP and no one would...(read more)

iTunes Store is now 100% DRM free

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:45:00 GMT

Yep, that's right. Over the past 2 years, Apple has been working very hard with the music labels and artists to convert all of its media to iTunesPlus (256Kbps AAC encoded & DRM free), and today they turned off the DRM switch. I wrote It's...(read more)

IE8 Available NOW!

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:53:00 GMT

Apparently, IE8 was released on March 11, 2009 and is available for download at: Internet Explorer 8: Home page I've only been playing with it for a few minutes, but it does seem to be a little faster than IE7. There is a new Tab Grouping feature...(read more)

Sony's new BLOCKBUSTER!

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:21:00 GMT

WARNING: YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK FOR CHILDREN IN THE ROOM BEFORE VIEWING Here is link to the latest advertisement for Sony's new BLOCKBUSTER!...(read more)

The AT&T U-verse Nightmare

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:53:00 GMT

A couple weeks ago I did some research to see if I could save money by switching to AT&T U-verse service for Internet and TV service. The difference between U-verse and DSL is that DSL combines the POTS and DSL signals at the frame (local office)...(read more)

Security Alert: Adobe Reader vulnerability during crashes

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:59:00 GMT

After reporting an issue with Adobe Reader 9.0 not working on a fresh install of Windows Vista, I've been waiting for a fix from Adobe. I checked back today and it appears that it was good news that I wasn't able to use the Reader as there is...(read more)

Resident Evil 5: Friday, March 13, 2009

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:08:00 GMT

Who is going to head to their nearest gaming/electronics store on this day and pick up what may be the highest selling console game of all time? Sorry Wii peeps, they are still considering whether or not to come out with a version for you. I'm a PS3...(read more)

Hyper-V: Slow network connections

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:36:00 GMT

UPDATE 03/30/2009: The slow network issues came back and progressively became so bad that I was experiencing permanent data loss due to connections timing out. I rebuilt the server last weekend w/o Hyper-V and everything is functioning normally. I came...(read more)

Virtual Server: Network cable unplugged

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:33:00 GMT

Man, this is one thing that had me going for a while. If you have instances setup to run under a specific user account (i.e. to auto-start on power up), you need to ensure that the user accounts have the proper permissions for all of the virtual files...(read more)

Windows bug deletes entire MyDocuments folder

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Hey Guys, Last week I discovered a bug in Windows after restoring my workstation from a backup and then logging into that workstation for the first time. The issue can occur on any system that is using folder redirection where the physical storage location...(read more)

It's time for an iTunes Boycott of DRM music labels

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Changes Coming to the iTunes Store is the title of a recent announcement by Apple. As of the first of this year a major portion of the DRM only tracks on iTunes have been made available as iTunesPlus downloads, which is the 256kb/s DRM free version. Steve...(read more)

Have a great 2009!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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Merry Fruitcake Christmas...

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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Christmas Anagram

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT

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