The Chronicle

 Given the last mid-term elections...looks like the country is headed in the wrong direction....gee ya think? The secret "W" government....a pointless war....no energy policy...the middle class disappearing...abuse of the large corporations.... and that's the short list? Don't even get me started on small-minded people telling everyone how to feel, work and live!

 Maybe things will change now that the people have spoken... it's time that the government of those poeple started to listen! If not...vote them out!!!!

 

~cse

 

 

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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

  By the power of Truth, I, while living, have conquered the Universe....

One can understand why some would dislike such a phrase...after all it threatens them for whom the “truth” and “Universe” are defined by their belittling beliefs that they wish upon everyone.

Why such words hold such power? They are a battle cry to be sure…but really in there honest way…such ideas stand up against those who use fear, hate, and injustice to control and keep their power over people.

A note for our times…and a warning for the little minded people who put themselves in charge…

~cse

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Some interesting code I had to create to send email via am ASP.net page.... it works well:

 

First off...you need a: 

imports System.Net.Mail

 In a sub or etc do:

 DIM Mail as New MailMessage()

 Mail.From = new MailAddress("some name", "some address")

 Mail.To.Add("emailAddress")  'Yeap the ; does work between addresses

 Mail.Subject("Something Cleaver here")

 Mail.Body("Yack Yack Yack") 'a textbox is a good input choice here

 Dim SMTP as new SMTPClient("the smtp client address")  'there's other options here google it

 SMTP.Send(Mail)  ' and you are done.

 

There's a async method for sending a message too...there's places to look it up...

 Enjoy 

~cse

 

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Ok...I've almost have the support framing up for the fence....all 240 feet of it! I'll have to put up some pictures on the main site....soon... the only big issue is the heat! Yeah, nothing like Global Warming...

Speaking of which....way to go BP! Let's make BIG money and not take care of the environment or our pipeline...but when we screw up...we'll just say we are sorry .  How about a fine? If it were anyone else...they would be put in jail and big chunks of their money would be taken away! But no...the talking heads in our gov't will do? ...yeap, nothing! Gee, ya think that the rich people care? Yeah Right!

~cse

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Well,

This week I'm doing (as the talking heads say)...the "deep dive" into Vista and WCF. Oh what fun!

The only really thing about all of this is the fact that most of it is Beta...hey you get what you get with betaware! So, why I'm I doing this? It's a project for work...I get to go head to head with the JEE folks and proof the .Net technology. Ok...a moment of laughing here... Maybe someone will actually starting using my .Net stuff. At least it won't cost $1000's per CPU to run an app server...

I'll keep the chronicle posted...

Meanwhile.... I have two 64-bit systems up. One has LongHorn 64-bit and one has Vista 64-bit...so far the bigest issues:

 Hard to find driver for the on-board sound card. Really annoying, but I found a workaround. Use the non-Vista 64x drivers for XP. The control program doesn't work but the system makes noise.

 Vista out of the box puts you into a non-Admin login...yeap! I can understand why MS wants you to do that...but for use power users...it could be easier to install and give a choice. Oh well....

 Can't change the login picture on the Vista system...looks like that code is not implemented... you click on the place to change the picture...and you get sent into a circle that takes you back to manage users...???? Ok, so there's still some tweating needed...

 Loading and running the .Net 3.0 framework/SDk/ etc is confusing. The problem here is that MS is in the middle of releasing and making changes to what you can deploy where... It can only get better? Or at least a bit more confusing....

 

Anyway...that's the shortlist for now....

  ~cse

 

 

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Well after trying two very different sets of readers and software...neither one seems to want to work with Firefox. I expected the MS reader/software not to work, but the other brand did't work either. Oh well, so much for that.

 

~cse

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Ok, Just got and have been playing with the fingerprint reader and MS password manager software... it seems to work well, especially with MS only stuff like IE, Passport, and Windows Applications....and it works well for login dialogs.... as long as you are talking MS complaint password entry.... The two major places where this hardware and software WILL NOT WORK are Firefox (anything) and MovableType... not even the IE extension for Firefox will allow the reader to supply login information to the window. Hey, that's MS for ya...so is it useless? worth the $35? Well, if you don't do everything in Firefox and you're willing to give on that point...the reader and software is a good choice...but it would be more effective if MS would make it work for non MS-ware...then it would be an excellant choice.... I would give a 4 out of 10...with this device and software losing most points due to fact it will not work with non-MS features. Btw, it does work with IE 7 Beta 3...that surprised me... (Of course the one issue I found was that the Pizza ordering site that I wanted to set up a finger touch login with...that Pizza company won't work with IE 7 ) ~cse

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