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January 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:58 PM

Where does the magic happen?

As you can see, the dual monitors support a code view (C# on the right) and Solution Viewer/Class View/Threads/Properties/Toolbox on the left. Mini Processor: 3.0 GHz P4 Memory: 2 GB DDR2 Video Card: All-in-Wonder X800 Hard drives: 2 250 GB SATA-1 DVD:
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:05 PM

Follow up on GoDaddy email services over SSL connections

This is a follow up to: http://davidjsmitty.com/blog/me/archive/2007/01/20/godaddy-doesn-t-offer-ssl-encrypted-email-services.aspx After a responsive email-chat with Jason Gauer from GoDaddy Quality Assurance, I've been made aware that it is in fact possible
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Monday, January 22, 2007 8:54 AM

Quote of the Day - Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"

"Don't ever let someone tell you you can't do something. Not even me. You want something? Go get it - period." - Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness I really liked one.
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:48 AM

Cross-platform development with WPF/E

I love mac, I love mac, I love mac, I love mac, I love mac. Alright, it's not true, but this is what I have to keep telling myself to trick myself into developing for the mac. I'll be playing around with WPF/E for a while to see what kind of cool apps
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:24 PM

Authenticode and Strong naming ("signing")

It kills me that the names for these processes are "Code signing" and "Strong Name signing". So this is the scenario. I'd like for my assembly to be strong named (able to be loaded into the GAC, and used in strong-named apps) and I'd like it to be code
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:35 AM

Comments on BitTyrant

* Initial comments on BitTyrant* I will probably revise these comments when I do more research into the peer-selection algorithm that BitTyrant uses. While I was at Michigan State University, a fellow group of students did a study into whether they could
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:23 AM

Quote of the Day - Napoleon Hill

"Quitters never win. And winners never quit." - Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich It's on my wall. Not many things get posted to my wall. What more can I say? As always, comments are welcome.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:15 AM

GoDaddy doesn't offer SSL encrypted email services

Facts : GoDaddy doesn't offer SSL encrypted email services as of 1/20/2007. All email you'll be sending or recieving with GoDaddy's servers are un-encrypted . You can't even buy the feature. I know, I know; you're saying: "I don't believe it." Well -
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:57 AM

Request to YouTube.

Please add Digg functionality to your site. I'm sick of reading posts that waste my time. The update should not take much effort. 4 devs, 2 weeks of dev. 1 week prototyping. 2 weeks of beta, and you're all set. Thanks you.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 5:30 AM

Sending email from an ASP.NET application hosted on a GoDaddy shared hosting account, non-shared hosting account (GoDaddy), and non-shared hosting account (Gmail)

For all of those ASP.NET developers looking to send email that uses SMTP from a GoDaddy Email account. This is the code for sending emails from an ASP.NET application hosted on a GoDaddy shared hosting account from a non-shared hosting account through
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:37 PM

American Idol is weak. Digg Idol please?

AmIdol is a show where people that express themselves differently fail. A contestant is eliminated if he or she doesn't fit the exact template of what the judges think an "idol" should be. I think Digg.com should hold their own DiggIdol, and the people
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:11 PM

The commoditization of throughput (not bandwidth). How much is throughput (not bandwidth) worth to you? (Comcast customers)

This is an examination of how much Comcast throughput (not bandwidth) is worth to you. How much does it cost? You pay $43 - $58 / month for you Comcast connection, $43 if you have cable TV too, and $58 if you don't have cable TV. What do you get? It's
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:56 PM

Thoughts on Joost (Formally The Venice Project)

I've been on the beta-testing team for Joost for a while now, and now that they changed their name, Google News Sci/Tech finally aggregated the story. I love to see the success of any type of P2P technology, so it's fun to see Joost on Google news. The
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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:10 AM

Database limitations with shared hosting on GoDaddy

This is for all the developers out there looking to make serious applications on shared hosting accounts with GoDaddy. Problem #1: Microsoft SQL field size limitations with GoDaddy The problem: GoDaddy's Microsoft SQL servers only allow fields to be a
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:02 PM

WIPO webcasting Treaty Update

Thanks to Seth Johnson for forwarding an email with the following link , published by Manon Ress. As I mentioned in my previous post on the WIPO webcasting Treaty , I think my favorite excerpt is from Sherwin Siy: "...Adding a new intellectual property
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:36 PM

Max upload speed with GoDaddy shared hosting

I've done some testing, and I figure the community may appreciate my results. All of this testing was done in a controlled environment, with machines that could handle the load. Step 1 : Make sure my download connection won't bottleneck the download from
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 3:21 PM

Quote of the day - Robert F. Kennedy

"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." - Robert F. Kennedy I like to read inspirational quotes to help me stay positive every day, but I'd
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:11 PM

My experiences with GoDaddy

When I evaluate my experiences with businesses, I'm looking for 3 things: quality, service, and value. Any large organization should meet my expectations for atleast 2 of these 3 (or else they shouldn't be successful). GoDaddy meets, and exceeds my expectations
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:14 AM

The story of Community Server on GoDaddy shared hosting.

I recently read a reply to a post on the Community Server forums ( http://communityserver.org/forums/thread/554820.aspx ) It went: " chavak, Problems seem to be the norm when trying to run a CS site on GoDaddy.com. As a former disgruntled GoDaddy user
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:21 PM

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Treaty Information

For more information about the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Treaty currently currently being opposed by: "Intel, Sony, Panasonic, AT&T, Verizon, Dell, US Telecom (general), and EFF", to name a few large companies, check out http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2498804458776047141&hl=en
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