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Data conversion Failed on MS SQL Import

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

The database was upgraded to MS SQL 9 and required me to use 2005 SQL Server Management Studio instead of Enterprise Manager. While trying to import a .csv file, I ran into a number of errors and spent awhile trying to figure out what the problem was. If you get a similar error, the problems […]

WTF - Adobe Acrobat Activiation Issues With Windows Vista

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

I have been having major problems with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and Windows Vista. I bought Acrobat almost a year ago, paying close to $500, and have consistently had problems with the software saying it needs to be activated even though I have already activated it numerous times. I worked with their lousy customer support when […]

Yahoo and OpenID

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Yahoo has announced they will support OpenID, which I think is great. There are some security concernswith OpenID, but I think the benefits outweigh the risks. I probably wouldn’t use OpenID in the near term for my online banking, but for the myriad of online accounts I have that don’t have sensitive data, OpenID is […]

Firefox performing better on Linux

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

In March, I wrote about Firefox’s woeful performance with some javascript heavy sites. I am happy to say, Firefox is performing much better on these sites now that I have upgraded to Gutsy Gibson and Firefox was upgraded. This contrasts with the fact that Firefox seems to be crashing a lot more on […]

Microsoft Search Finally Relevant?

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Emails have been coming through touting the new capabilities in Live Search and at our division meeting, the VP said internal tests had shown live as relevant, if not more relevant than Google. There were some eyebrows raised at that comment, but he
did say this was the first time Microsoft’s internal tests had found this. […]