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I killed my entertainment center tonight. Moving soon, and time to get a new one. I have had this one since around 1995-96, so 10 years for a cheapo EC, not bad. Little wobbly, but it worked. 6 hits with a hammer and it was gone ghandi. Saved the pegs though, you can always use [...]

I added a mologogo map on the side of my blog. If I am out and about with my pocket pc 6700 with my GPS running, it should update where am, good for all you stalkers out there.

I just got on the Windows Live Mail Destkop Beta (whew, long name, WLMDB) - installed it yesterday. Seems pretty cool, few major gripes though, I can’t minimize to the systray and I really dont know where to see my contacts, sent items, etc. Its like a really stripped down outlook or suped up outlook [...]

SHGetFolderPath doesn’s seem to work on Windows 98. If you use it to try  to find like the “My Pictures” directory,  it will error out.  I have read that some versions of Win98 do work, depends on the version of shell32.dll (5 and greater). A workaround that you can use , which probably isn’t 100%  [...]

Playing Call of Duty 2, the British troops call the German Troops “Jerries”. Searching around on the net didn’t yield much, but I asked my Dad, and he asked a WWII vet, and here is what I got:
The term Jerry stems from WWI, the Germans used their helments to goto the bathroom in, just like [...]

strcpy - Copies the content pointed by src to dest stopping after the terminating null-character is copied.
dest should have enough memory space allocated to contain src string.
strncpy - Copies the first num characters of src to dest.
No null-character is implicitly appended to dest after copying process. So dest may not be null-terminated if no null-caracters [...]

The last few days, I have been looking into a solution to kill a process in c/c++ - but not just any process, a ScreenSaver running while the computer is locked. Most examples on MSDN and such terminiate processes by sending close messages to them, and 99% of the time that works. It even works [...]

ScaleOut Software has a product to manage sessions on a web farm. I have tried this product and have had nothing but issues. I did actually end up getting it working once, but it turns out, even when it does work correctly, it gives your network problems

It seems that the fix for any issue is [...]

Lawn Mower Races

Originally uploaded by ScaleOvenStove.

Nothing better to do on a rainy Iron Range afternoon. There were three lawn mowers in this race, I think I could have walked faster around the track.

I found out today Im guilty. Guilty of sending emails where my hyperlinks I paste inside them arent actually hyperlinks, so that the user getting the email has to copy and paste them into their browser. What a PITA if you ask me. I see that you actually have to hit ENTER after pasting a [...]