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Entries for February, 2008

C# 3.0 Features - Extension Methods

C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 are out and ready for consumption, and I have been using some of the new features. One of the new features, Extension Methods, is really cool and can help you consolidate and reuse your code in a logical manner. Take for example, System.Data.DataSet - there is always something I do [...]

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Madison Blogger Meetup

Trying to get a Madison Blogger Meetup going. There is a Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17843681384
Hopefully next week (Thursday  Feb 21st, at Mickey’s Tavern)
Everything is subject to change at this point :)
On an unrelated note, Obama is in Madison tonight, at [...]

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links for 2008-02-11

Just Like Heaven Chords by Cure @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
(tags: guitartab)

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iPhone: 1.1.3 Firmware and YouTube "You must first connect to iTunes with an Internet connection to enable Youtube"

So, after I upgraded to 1.1.3 Firmware on my iPhone, I tested everything. Everything works as planned, even my voicemail works great (not visual VM, but when I hit VM when on a diff carrier it actually goes to my VM!)
But, one issue I saw: "You must first connect to iTunes with [...]

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Cisco VPN - Launch a Hidden Constant PING Window on Connect

The other day I blogged about getting Cisco VPN to stay connect in Vista. The fix was a constant ping. It is all good but then you have this CMD window open all day in your taskbar, just taking up space, etc.
I decided to workaround it.
I created [...]

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Trying a new IM client: Digsby

I decided to try out a new IM client tonight, Digsby
I have been using pidgin for a long time and really like it. Looks like digsby is just like pidgin with some more features, so that is cool. I used code "lifehacker" to download/install
Check it out if [...]

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iPhone Hacking: Updating my 1.1.1 Unlocked iPhone to 1.1.2, then 1.1.3 (Activate, Jailbreak, Unlock, oh my!)

I tried this http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/the-113-soft-upgrade-jailbreak-faq but for whatever reason it thinks my phone isn’t 1.1.1 and jailbroken, so I had to find another way.
found this: http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/OsX113devjailbreak
but I am 1.1.1, so need to update to 1.1.2, so I followed this tutorial http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_iPhone_Modding_OS_X_current_3
Worked great .. well wait, at the end my phone was stuck in restore mode. Doh. [...]

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WordPress 2.3.3, PHP, Windows Live Writer, Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted

After I updated to WordPress 2.3.3, I was seeing some pages in my admin screens getting errors like this:
Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted
WTF? So, pages still worked though. I cleaned out everything I wasn’t using (themes, plugins, etc) in my WordPress directories, still getting it. [...]

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Get Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 RTM NOW!

Ok, so I wasn’t sure about this, but tried. it.
Create a batch file with this in it and execute:
@echo off
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /f > NUL 2>&1 reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSP1 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d dcf99ef8-d784-414e-b411-81a910d2761d /f IF NOT %errorlevel% == [...]

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Upgrade Your WordPress Installation - ASAP!

There have been a few security related fixes for WordPress released. The are currently on 2.2.3
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
I use HostMySite.com for my hosting and they won’t upgrade your WordPress installation for you, so you need to do it yourself. Pretty simple, just follow the directions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
I backed up my WordPress instance, then disabled my plugins, then uploaded [...]

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