I have made a discovery this morning while attempting to configure two ASP.NET Virtual Directories on one Web Site Server.
The server houses IIS6 and is hosting several web applications for our QA group. IIS is responsible for hosting our ScrewTurn Wiki and an internal metrics gathering tool. The Wiki was built using the .NET Framework [...]
For those of you currently using Office 2007 in an office environment, you may have found yourself in the position where you have the latest version of Office and others around you still run with previous versions. Saving documents in the new Office 2007 format usually prevents those users from being able to access your [...]
I recently came across an issue where I needed MS Fax Services installed to test a particular scenario for the enterprise system I am working with. Apparently, in Windows XP SP3, the security database can be corrupted in such as way as to prevent you from installing certain services, including MS Fax Services. From http://support.microsoft.com:
You [...]
My office has recently upgraded to QualityCenter 10, as several members of our team were having issues connecting to QC9 using Internet Explorer 8 with Windows XP SP3. This was as good a reason as ever to switch.
We have been automating our smoke test suite in QuickTest Pro 9.5 over the past year and have [...]
This is great news for consumers of cell phones! Major players in the market have decided that they’ll switch to a universal charging mechanism by January 2012. The switch will reduce the sheer amount of plugs that we all collect, plus will reduce the amount of waste we create due to obsolete technology. I welcome [...]
I keep forgetting the application that allows me to configure how Windows XP boots. The application is MSCONFIG.exe. To start, launch a run prompt and type:
MSCONFIG
Use this tool at your own risk, as you are directly modifying important system files.
I was recently looking for a way to enjoy Divx-encoded videos on my Zune — you know for road trips and such. Apparently some work has been done in this field, yet I have had little success in duplicating the effort.
The folks over at Techmixer.com have suggested the following steps:
Copy and paste the following [...]
I was reading Griner’s Blog over at TheSocialPath.com and his latest post had an interesting image of a graph the blog. Of course, I got curious and decided to graph out my blog using this cool web page graphing site:
Webpages as Graphs
I am not sure what exactly it all means, but it sure looks purty.
In my recent testing efforts, I have comes across a desktop windows form (written in VB6) involving updating a data grid and then calculating another field’s value based on those updates. In order to achieve this functionality, the development staffs implemented two events (AfterColUpdate and LostFocus) that, when triggered, would fire off the calculation method.
None [...]
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