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Archive for October, 2006
October 31, 2006 at 4:20 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous
Today I received an email spoofed from our domain. I don’t know if anyone outside the company got it, but others here at Digipede did. It would just be in my “stupid spam tricks” category except it had a ZIP attachment with an executable in it. Virus or spyware, I don’t really care. I didn’t run it.
The email contained this text:
Dear user robert,
You have successfully updated the password of your Digipede account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact Digipede customer service at: xxxxxxx@digipede.net
Thank you for using Digipede!
The Digipede Support Team
I left out the correct support address (i.e., support at digipede dot net) above to reduce the efficacy of screen scrapers. So this is either . . .
A highly targeted attack at a couple of us at Digipede. If so, hey spammer: how stupid do you think we are?
or
A more widely distributed virus. In which case it appears that Digipede support accounts have achieved the value and penetration of some other applications, like PayPal. Right?
[tags]spam, virus, support, Digipede[/tags]
Tags: Digipede, spam, support, virus
October 30, 2006 at 4:04 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous
Yesterday Jamie released TestDriven.NET 2.0. A cool product, it looks like it just keeps getting cooler. Check it out here http://www.testdriven.net.
[tags]TestDriven.NET, .NET[/tags]
Tags: .NET, TestDriven.NET
October 25, 2006 at 12:29 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous
Last week I wrote in Bug in IE7? that I thought there was a problem viewing this site:
In Firefox and IE6, my horizontal list (menu) works correctly. The picture below shows the “Link Blog” item highlighted and mouse-over.
In IE7, all of the text is crowded together, but the mouse-over regions are in the correct place. Again, the picture below shows in the “Link Blog” item highlighted. Noticed that the highlight is in the same place, but the text is all crowded to the left.
This alone looks like a bug. I don’t see how the text and the highlight can be in two different locations.
It turns out that this is related to the zoom feature. This site looks fine if zoom isn’t used (i.e., at 100%). More or less zoom crowds just the text, but not the mouse-overs.
Must be a bug.
[tags]CSS, Firefox, IE, IE6, IE7, IE7 Bug[/tags]
Tags: CSS, Firefox, IE, IE6, IE7, IE7-Bug
October 23, 2006 at 8:24 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
Over the last could of weeks, we at Digipede have been preparing to move out of the oh-so outdated VSS into Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS).
This last weekend, we did the whole migration.
My main reason for pushing this change: to make it easier for our team to concurrently develop on multiple branches. This is fairly challenging in VSS due to its limitations.
So far, so good. I’ll let you know more as we start to really use it.
[tags]Digipede, VSTS, VS, TFS, VSS, Microsoft, Source Control[/tags]
Tags: Digipede, Microsoft, Source-Control, TFS, VS, VSS, VSTS
October 20, 2006 at 1:10 pm · Filed under Web 2.0
Gillmor Gang Smackdown draws a crowd as tech talk gets rowdy at Better Bad News.
I listened to see if my voice of reason made the cut — it didn’t. Rseason doesn’t entertain.
[tags]Gillmor Gang, Gillmor, Calacanis[/tags]
Tags: Calacanis, Gillmor, Gillmor-Gang
October 19, 2006 at 8:27 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous
A great game to end a terrific series. I thought the Mets were going to take it with that incredible double play.
That said, I’ll be rooting for the Cardinals in the World Series. They’ll have a hard time against the Tigers if they haven’t cooled off.
Go Cardinals! I’ve been a Tony LaRussa fan since he was with the A’s.
[tags]Baseball, NLCS, MLB[/tags]
Tags: baseball, MLB, NLCS
October 19, 2006 at 7:16 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
Logitech has acquired SlimDevices. Announced here.
SlimDevices will greatly benefit from the greater marketing and manufacturing capabilities of Logitech.
I do have a couple of concerns about the acquisition.
Hardware
Logitech is a consumer electronics company, not an audio(phile) products company.
Looking at the SlimDevices SqueezeBox 3 and their new Transporter, it seems to me they were heading in the direction of mid to high-end product. These products are well-built and solid and sound great (at least the squeezebox does — I haven’t heard a Transporter). Consumer electronics tend to the light-weight, mass-produced, just cheaper.
I hope that Logitech / SlimDevices will continue to build a great product.
Software
I chose SlimDevices because of the open nature of their platform. I just can’t stomach an all-Windows, all iTunes, all anything approach to my music collection. I am just too particular about inane details. The SlimDevices SlimServer did (pretty much) everything I wanted it to do from the get go (not the least of which is native FLAC support). And even better: the entire platform is open.
Logitech has committed to continuing to support the open platform. I hope so.
[tags]audio, flac, gadget, squeezebox, Logitech[/tags]
Tags: audio, FLAC, gadget, Logitech, Squeezebox
October 19, 2006 at 5:52 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
Before I report this as a bug, I thought I’d write it up and see if any CSS gurus can help me.
In Firefox and IE6, my horizontal list (menu) works correctly. The picture below shows the “Link Blog” item highlighted and mouse-over.
In IE7, all of the text is crowded together, but the mouse-over regions are in the correct place. Again, the picture below shows in the “Link Blog” item highlighted. Noticed that the highlight is in the same place, but the text is all crowded to the left.
This alone looks like a bug. I don’t see how the text and the highlight can be in two different locations.
I have run this through the CSS Validator (here) and the XHTML Validator (here) and sounds nothing I can pin this on. (Note the XHTML Validator reports several errors having to do with individual posts).
So, is this a problem in my site or a bug in IE7?
[tags]IE7, IE6, Firefox, CSS[/tags]
Tags: CSS, Firefox, IE, IE6, IE7
October 18, 2006 at 6:20 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
There seems to be much interest in the release — I’m getting a lot of people coming to this blog for the answer.
I don’t know if it is true; but, the rumor has it that today, October 18th, is the day.
[tags]ie7, ie6, Microsoft[/tags]
Update: and it looks like the rumors were correct.
Tags: IE, IE6, IE7, Microsoft
October 16, 2006 at 12:28 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous
[tags]Live Writer, feedDemon[/tags]
Nick Bradbury said he’ll support Live Writer natively in the next version. And he did. And this is what it looks like. Cool.
[tags]live Writer, FeedDemon[/tags]
Glenn Slaven has written a handy tool which enables posting to Windows Live Writer from FeedDemon. Glenn, thanks for sharing this!
PS: I’m planning to add native Live Writer support to the next version of FeedDemon.
Source: Post to Live Writer from FeedDemon
Originally published on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:01:23 GMT by Nick Bradbury
Tags: feedDemon, Live-Writer
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