Channel 9 - Discussions by gangstah

Tech Off - IE passing URLs to different browsers

gangstah — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:36:30 GMT

Worked like a charm! I am glad to be thanking you in your direction.

Tech Off - IE passing URLs to different browsers

gangstah — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:33:44 GMT

YES! The exact same thing is happening to me. Everytime I type a URL in or launch a bookmark another browser window (whatever the default browser is) opens. If I click a hyperlink, no problem.

I went back to a restore point and everything was fine. Then it started happening again. Did a scan with AdAware and nothing. I'm thinking that it started again after an automatic update from MS.

Coffeehouse - Think Windows

gangstah — Thu, 12 May 2005 23:04:25 GMT

Man, thanks very much. Slick as all get out!

Coffeehouse - Which firewall is secure and useable?

gangstah — Thu, 12 May 2005 22:58:38 GMT

I've been using XP firewall with my Linksys router. Both have done pretty well as far as I can tell. I used to use ZoneAlarm but it really messed up Web development so I ditched it. I'm no ZA guru so there may have been settings to avoid my issues but like I said, XP and Linksys are doing okay.

Coffeehouse - Always use a DAL?

gangstah — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:54:55 GMT

I have a real disease when it comes to this. If I don't seperate the DAL properly I get all grumpy and shakey. I mean...there should be some common sense but I never bind a grid to a sqldatareader, never return datareaders to UI logic, etc. Although 99% of my projects are SQL Server and will always be SQL Server I still can't seem to find the courage to mix the UI with DAL. Stupid I know.

Coffeehouse - Think Windows

gangstah — Tue, 10 May 2005 18:27:01 GMT

The silver wide screen is very slick, any chance of getting a black one? I'd do it myself but it's mostly because I suck that I won't.

Coffeehouse - Google Down... for a minute

gangstah — Sun, 08 May 2005 01:17:04 GMT

It was funny because I was using the Google Accelerator and it said that google.com wasn't a valid name and that maybe I should use google.com to research it.

I can't tell you how long I got stuck in that vortex.

The Sandbox - Small Business Accounting 2006 UI Addin Example

gangstah — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:54:01 GMT

Great example, thanks.

The Sandbox - Charles/Adam: another Sandbox bug

gangstah — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:46:23 GMT

I LOVE my avatar creator. THANKS!

Coffeehouse - Prices released for Visual Studio 2005

gangstah — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:20:05 GMT

"Microsoft announces new pricing matrix for Visual Studio. To celebrate, they also announced yet another release delay. An audible sigh was heard around the world."

Coffeehouse - Visual Studio needs a new logo

gangstah — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:15:16 GMT

How about this?

I LOVE times font.

Sorry Jamie, I guess I'm the artist on campus now.

The Sandbox - Channel 9 Wallpapers

gangstah — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:51:05 GMT

You are fracking talented AND generous. Thanks!

Coffeehouse - Matt Bianco

gangstah — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:08:28 GMT

Man, I remember Matt Bianco. "Don't Blame It On That Girl." Great stuff.

You may or may not know this but Basia was the woman in the band. You should check out some of her stuff.

Tech Off - Official name of Longhorn (please confirm)

gangstah — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:51:23 GMT

I'd have to think that MS would want to seperate itself from XP with the new release of Longhorn. Longhorn is, basically, a brand new OS what with WinFX (eventually anyway), Indigo, Avalon, etc. Why would they piggy-back off of an upgrade to Windows 2000?

I'm sure this is just one idea from some schlump and there's better ideas coming down the stream.

My vote? Microsoft BeerOS. That would be neat.

Coffeehouse - MySQL Control Center like application for MSSQL

gangstah — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:57:49 GMT

The best one I've found is SQLyog. There's an enterprise edition (costs money) and theirs a scaled down version (free). The scaled down one does everything I need.

Also, I'm becoming more and more of a fan of phpMyAdmin.

The 9 Guy Around The World - Ch9 Guy Steals the crowd at the iPod Photo launch!

gangstah — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:49:54 GMT

Is it me or does Jobs look borderline Vulcan there?

Coffeehouse - Folder Organization or lack thereof

gangstah — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:18:35 GMT

Well...I recently started using 3 hard drives.

1) 40gb - Windows and all my programs

2) 60gb -

   d:\CodeSamples
   (ex d:\CodeSamples\dotNET - Nuke,
       d:\CodeSamples\php - Typo3, etc)

   d:\Docs
   (ex d:\Docs\Invoices,
       d:\Docs\Proposals,
       d:\Docs\Comps,
       etc. )

   d:\Downloads
   (ex d:\Downloads\Opera,
       d:\Downloads\NewsGator,
       etc)

   d:\Music

   d:\Projects
   (ex d:\Projects\[ClientName]\[ProjectName]\Web,
       d:\Projects\[ClientName]\[ProjectName]\VB,
       d:\Projects\[ClientName]\[ProjectName]\Sql,
       etc)

3) 160gb - scratch disk for Premiere and Photoshop

So that's my snobby little way.

Coffeehouse - what a beautiful group of men

gangstah — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:48:50 GMT

" if (x = 0 )...that '0' looks like a doughnut. mmmmmm...doughnuts...."

Coffeehouse - Passport?

gangstah — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:41:06 GMT

cha - freaking - ching!