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• So That's How The eSata Drives Generate Revenue Money

  My new eSata drive arrived today...Newegg was having a special, so I got 320 gigs for 80 bucks. You can't beat that, save for one thing: It didn't come with an eSata cable. Price of said cable? 20 bucks , and it has to be ordered seeing as no one in a brick and mortar around here carries them. Sounds like a fantastic ploy on the drive makers' parts: Sell the drive for cheap, but charge an arm and a leg for the connectivity. It was still a pretty sweet deal even after having to fork out... Posted Sep 07 2007, 12:17 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, General, Irks

• Pownce: Quite A Disappointment (And Other Thoughts)

  Pownce was recently launched (I'm here for anyone wanting to 'friend' me, though I don't see myself being too active in the near future, plus good luck getting the site to actually come up) as a so-called ' Twitter killer'...I'll sum the Pownce experience up in a nutshell: "If you thought Twitter was unreliable, you'll be pining for Twitter's level of uptime after just a couple of hours using Pownce™." For any readers who don't know what Twitter is... Posted Jul 06 2007, 12:11 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Irks

• What If You Built A Browser, But No One Used It?

  Through my daily reading of tech news, I came across this dandy: Netscape Navigator 9 Beta released . Wait a second, you mean to tell me that Netscape A) even still exists and B) is still releasing new versions of Navigator? Until reading that headline today, Netscape had ceased to exist in my mind. The last version of NN I played around with (out of curiosity) was something in the 7.0 timeframe ( 5 years ago ) which left my machine as quickly as it got there, namely due to huge memory consumption... Posted Jun 07 2007, 01:05 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Links and News, Irks

• Unable To Open URLs After Upgrading Windows XP x64 To Service Pack 2

  I recently upgraded my Windows XP x64 installation to Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 (for those not in the know, SP2 for Windows 2003 also applies to XP x64 since they are the same code base) only to run into an issue where clicking on any urls/hyperlinks from desktop applications (Outlook, Word, etc) generated the following error: "General Failure. The URL was (hyperlink name)." I use Firefox as my default browser, and it was definitely related to SP2 as this problem didn't show up until after the... Posted Mar 20 2007, 01:14 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Tools and Resources, Firefox, Irks

• ApplicationSettingsBase.[Insert Event Name Here] Discrepancy

  Microsoft has done a good job when it comes to event naming within the BCL by following a common naming pattern: the gerund form of the verb is used during the act of doing something (i.e. Form.Closing), whereas the past tense is used after the act has completed (ala Form.Closed). They've also done a fairly good job of encapsulating the full lifetime of events for a set of actions, and it's fairly intuitive to find what you are looking for in the documentation. Recently I've been fooling around with... Posted Jan 26 2007, 02:44 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Irks

• C# Coalesce Operator -- Underlying Type Not Tested For Null?

  I recently came across an irk with the new C# coalesce operator (??) which, if done by design, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. I couldn't find any documentation either confirming or denying that this is by design...if it's by design I'm sure there is a good reason for doing so, if not then this behavior Consider the following pseudo-code: MyClass myClass = new MyClass(); // do some stuff with myClass, then time to do some cleanup such as persisting a string property SettingsClass... Posted Jan 19 2007, 02:36 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, .Net, Irks

• Requesting Some Help On Crashdumps

  My machine finally got around to crashing again and I was able to snag a mini-dump...the problem is that I'm limited in my ability to interpret them other than to pick out which process caused the crash. I have 3 total: The first one was crashed by an old USB hub that apparently doesn't play nice with XP x64. The second was triggered by steam.exe while playing one of their games, and The third was caused by devenv.exe (Visual Studio) during a build process. So maybe it's not my sound card drivers... Posted Jan 11 2007, 12:52 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Irks

• Waiting For The Crash

  [update]I forgot to mention this is on Windows XP x64.[/update] I'm still experiencing some random hangs on my rebuilt machine every couple of hours or so and have finally decided to get off my lazy rear end and track down why it's happening. I'm 90% sure it's related to my sound card driver, but of course cannot be positive. So I've configured my machine to generate crash dumps, have downloaded all of the necessary diagnostic tools (WinDbg, symbol files, etc) for looking at said crash dumps... And... Posted Jan 09 2007, 05:36 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Irks

• Microsoft, I'm Pleading With You

  I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to mention it again: Microsoft is absolutely killing me with their version mismatching versioning scheme as of late. A list of complaints: The .Net Framework v3.0 is anything but a major release...hell, it's barely even a point release. It should be called .Net 2.0 extensions or something similar. A 3.0 release should contain new versions of all the core assemblies, like WinForms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc...all 3.0 includes is WCF, WPF, and WWF (sans WinFS.... Posted Nov 07 2006, 02:07 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Irks, Vista and WinFX

• Internet Explorer Installation Routine Is Ridiculous

  Today like the rest of the free internet using world, I installed Internet Explorer 7. Yes it looks good, is more standards compliant, is (supposedly) more secure, blah blah blah. I have installed IE7 in various incarnations 4 times (on this machine) over the past few months...the installation routine is just simply ridiculous; total elapsed time from the point I started today's installation routine, just over ten minutes. To install an f'ing web browser. That's one (1) uninstallation... Posted Oct 19 2006, 01:54 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Irks