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Entries for October, 2008

I have the new Macbook Pro 15

All I can say is that I love this machine.  The lappy will be replacing my Dual G5 Power Mac.  This machine is faster, has a better graphics card, larger hard drive and can be taken anywhere.  Only complaint is that this machine was really expensive.  That aside it is by far the best ‘puter [...]

Getting a New Macbook Pro Today

OK I give!  I have decided that it is time to get a new laptop.  My final decision is to get the 15″ MacBook Pro with the 320 Gig drive and 2.54 GHz processor with 4 Gig Ram.  This machine should cover me for the next few years.
[update] Well it has not happened just yet.  [...]

Not a Technical Post….

Please check out http://www.briansworld.com/2008/10/21/24-hours-of-lemons/.
We had a great time.  Read the post at the link for more info.

Moving a MS-SQL Database

The following example moves a database that is named mydb. This database contains one data file, Mydb.mdf, and one log file, Mydblog.ldf. If the database that you are moving has more data files or log files, specify the files in a comma-delimited list in the sp_attach_db stored procedure. The sp_detach_db procedure does not change regardless [...]

The Windows Installler service could not be accessed

Error message when you try to add or remove a program on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003: “The Windows Installer service could not be accessed”
Reregister the Windows Installer To reregister the Windows Installer, verify the location of the Msiexec.exe file on your hard disk and in the Windows Registry, [...]

Install Certificate in IE7 under Vista

If you are unable to install a certificate run IE as an administrator.

If you are like me, and you have a couple of encrypted web services that use self-signed SSL certificates, you may run into problems getting Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 to trust a web site with a self-signed certificate even though you [...]

Redirect default.apsx to another page

On our site we wanted to have all of our pages under version control including the root default.aspx page so that required us to do a redirect from from the root to the /pages/default.aspx.
There are a few ways to do this.

The easiest is to add a content web part and add a

<script> location.href = ‘/pages/default.aspx’; [...]

I am still seeing my deleted email in Horde

The default option in the Horde email client is to display the deleted messages.  There is a link in the upper rigth corner of the page that says hide deleted.  Click it and the deleted messages will be hidden from view.
Horde has other options for treating deleted messages that include putting the deleted items in [...]

Logitech diNovo Mini

Information about using the Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard with MythTV and Linux.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Logitech_diNovo_mini_v1.0
Brian and I spent days trying to make this work.  This would have helped.

SharePoint 2007 Path Exclusions

Ok this is crap and drove me nutts for a while.  During the migration from SP2003 to SP2007 we had to address where we had some managed path exclusions.
In SP2003 you would have to provide the exclusions for the paths that you do not want SharePoint to manage.  In Sharepoint 2007 all you need to [...]