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Disclaimer: I usually only write about code, and certainly this is not a product review blog, but this is something that really made my day. And their web pages end in .aspx so technically it is .NET related. Yesterday, I came a forum post alerting ASB customers to check out their new Track My Spending [...]
If you’ve ever used Unix, you’ll no doubt be well-aquainted with the commands ps and kill. On Windows, the graphical Task Manager performs these roles pretty well, but if you ever find yourself needing to resort to the command line to kill a process (e.g. for some reason on the Vista machine I am writing [...]
LinkedIn has a handy feature where you can upload your contacts file from Outlook, and it will find everyone who is also using LinkedIn so you can quickly establish connections with people you already know. Now I don’t really use proper Outlook contacts, but I do have a pretty hefty list of e-mail addresses in [...]
Today I had to diagnose a problem with a Windows Scheduled Task that was sporadically failing with a non-zero return code. The exe in question was a .NET console application that was throwing an exception before Main() got called; it was outside our try-catch block. Anyway, if you ran the .exe from a command line [...]
Last night, my Woosh Wireless broadband modem (an IPWireless P1D) went completely dead. My connection dropped, all the status lights went out, and there was no response at all when I hit the power button. I tried unplugging and replugging everything, but nothing happened. As you may know, this modem has a battery and a [...]
