tag:,2008:/1 2008-04-18T11:00:18Z "Look up, Get up, but don't ever give up." Movable Type Open Source 4.1 tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1261 2008-04-18T10:56:59Z 2008-04-18T11:00:18Z

I thought my wife was crazy when I got back from the gym this morning, and she started telling me about how at around 5:30am it felt like the whole house was shaking. I figured she was dreaming or something, but we turned on the news, and it turns out that at 5:36am there was a 5.4 Earthquake centered a ways west of here. Thinking back, I may have felt it, but didn't think anything...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com I thought my wife was crazy when I got back from the gym this morning, and she started telling me about how at around 5:30am it felt like the whole house was shaking. I figured she was dreaming or something, but we turned on the news, and it turns out that at 5:36am there was a 5.4 Earthquake centered a ways west of here. Thinking back, I may have felt it, but didn't think anything of it. I guess I missed the largest earthquake I've ever been in. tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1260 2008-04-03T00:54:21Z 2008-04-03T00:54:21Z

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Adam www.pipesnetwork.com , a fancy photo sharing thing.]]> tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1259 2008-03-31T10:57:02Z 2008-03-31T10:58:16Z

It must be spring now (I know it has been technically for over a week), because I've started the grill season. It's nice to actually have a backyard to grill in and not just a driveway like last year. Now I just need people to come visit to grill for......

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com It must be spring now (I know it has been technically for over a week), because I've started the grill season. It's nice to actually have a backyard to grill in and not just a driveway like last year. Now I just need people to come visit to grill for... tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1258 2008-03-26T10:51:44Z 2008-03-26T10:52:39Z

Is it a bad thing if the thought actually crossed my mind to put some Peppermint Schnapps in with my coffee this morning? Guess it's gonna be another long day of programming......

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com Is it a bad thing if the thought actually crossed my mind to put some Peppermint Schnapps in with my coffee this morning? Guess it's gonna be another long day of programming... tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1257 2008-03-21T16:21:39Z 2008-03-21T16:44:07Z

I recently found that applications using Microsoft's SmartDevice Connectivity API does not transfer well to other computers. I could not find anything on the web about these problems, so there is the reason for this article. I hope if someone else has a problem similar to mine, that this is useful. There were a series of steps I had to take to get my desktop application which was written using the Smart Device Connectivity API...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com gacutil" which makes it a piece of cake. I also ended up copying the "CoreCon" folder from two different places into the same location on the other computers. These locations are (for Windows XP) "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\corecon" and "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\CoreCon". I then needed to register the DLL's in the common files path using regsvr32. After that was done, I was getting another strange error (a 32-bit hex error code which corresponded to some generic COM error) when I tried to connect. I traced these down to not having other required DLL's. To overcome this, I had to install the .NET 2.0 SDK (about a 350 MB setup file). I'm sure that there is a better way to get the necessary files, but everything I read said you had to have Visual Studio 2008 installed, and that was not an option for the other computers I wanted to use this application. At this point I thought for sure it would work. I was now getting an error about versions. Out of curiousity, I compared both CoreCon folders mentioned earlier with the corresponding one on my computer (using WinMerge, a great open source compare utility on SourceForge). I found that the assemblies on the other computer were older than mine (because I was using .NET 3.5 and I installed the 2.0 SDK on the other machine because I could not find an SDK for 3.5, and just the framework didn't put on the required files, although I did have to install that as well). Anyway, I updated the files with the copy on my computer, and suddenly it all worked. What a mess of stuff to get an application running on another computer. Of course this took me about a half a day to solve because Microsoft does not have any documentation anywhere on this even being an issue. I know I don't have a lot of detail in this blurb, but hopefully it at least gives someone enough general direction to save them from spending the time I had to in order to get this working.]]> tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1256 2008-03-05T02:51:52Z 2008-03-05T02:55:12Z

Brett Favre has officially retired. One of the greatest players ever to play the game, and definitely the toughest quarterback ever. I'm sad to say I never did get to see him in person at a game. I don't even remember the Packers without Favre, so it should be an interesting season this fall. We'll miss you Favre. This article summed it up better than anything else I've seen: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3276537...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3276537 ]]> tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1255 2008-02-21T02:06:28Z 2008-02-21T02:08:15Z

So I've been accused of being old and moldy. Actually I think it was my blog, but since I just turned older, it applies to me as well. I'm not really going to do anything to refute this claim, except to say that I am boring and don't have anything to say lately....

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com So I've been accused of being old and moldy. Actually I think it was my blog, but since I just turned older, it applies to me as well. I'm not really going to do anything to refute this claim, except to say that I am boring and don't have anything to say lately. tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1254 2008-02-05T01:21:49Z 2008-02-05T01:25:08Z

Last night's Super Bowl was the happiest I've ever been to see a team lose. It's not that I really have a reason to dislike New England, I'm just so sick of hearing about them and Tom Brady. Plus until this season, I always thought Tom Brady was way over-rated. He proved me wrong this season, but I still don't like him. So anyway, congratulations to the New York Giants. Especially after them beating my...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com Last night's Super Bowl was the happiest I've ever been to see a team lose. It's not that I really have a reason to dislike New England, I'm just so sick of hearing about them and Tom Brady. Plus until this season, I always thought Tom Brady was way over-rated. He proved me wrong this season, but I still don't like him. So anyway, congratulations to the New York Giants. Especially after them beating my Packer's, I'm happy to see them win, and silence some of Eli's critics. tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1253 2008-01-30T00:29:10Z 2008-01-30T00:29:53Z

Tired of eating out for lunch, but hate taking the time to pack one? Try this out....

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com this out.]]> tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1252 2008-01-26T15:35:09Z 2008-01-26T15:43:57Z

So it's been almost a week now since my Packers lost a disappointing game. I usually make fun of people that get upset when their team loses. This time, I was one of them. I'm still bummed I don't get to see any more good football until the fall. And now it looks like Favre won't even play in the Pro Bowl. No football for me until the fall now....

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com So it's been almost a week now since my Packers lost a disappointing game. I usually make fun of people that get upset when their team loses. This time, I was one of them. I'm still bummed I don't get to see any more good football until the fall. And now it looks like Favre won't even play in the Pro Bowl. No football for me until the fall now. tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1251 2008-01-21T00:33:36Z 2008-01-21T00:38:42Z

Friday I read an article about how the Packers' Donald Driver has not scored a touchdown since the third game of the regular season. I believe the 90 yard touchdown pass he just caught breaks that streak. Go Packers!...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com Friday I read an article about how the Packers' Donald Driver has not scored a touchdown since the third game of the regular season. I believe the 90 yard touchdown pass he just caught breaks that streak. Go Packers! tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1250 2008-01-15T02:38:38Z 2008-01-15T02:40:48Z

I guess you really can buy everything at Amazon.com. I have to admit though, this is one of the stranger things I have ever seen, and I'm still not really sure what it is: JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser. By the way, too bad for the Colts yesterday, but at least my Packers will be playing in Lambeau next Sunday :-)...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser. By the way, too bad for the Colts yesterday, but at least my Packers will be playing in Lambeau next Sunday :-)]]> tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1249 2008-01-13T01:19:07Z 2008-01-13T01:19:52Z

The Green Bay Packers just advanced to the NFC Title game by beating the Seahawks by 22 points. Thank you, come again....

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com The Green Bay Packers just advanced to the NFC Title game by beating the Seahawks by 22 points. Thank you, come again. tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2008://1.1248 2008-01-08T01:31:03Z 2008-01-08T01:52:31Z

It's a bit of a sad day today. It's the last day of College Football for the season. Hopefully Ohio State can keep playing well (it's 10-0 right now, but it's still early). I'd like to see them shut up a lot of the critics about the Big Ten Conference. On another note, did anyone see OSU's kicker's pants? I've never seen football pants that short before. Kinda scary. At least there is still some...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com It's a bit of a sad day today. It's the last day of College Football for the season. Hopefully Ohio State can keep playing well (it's 10-0 right now, but it's still early). I'd like to see them shut up a lot of the critics about the Big Ten Conference. On another note, did anyone see OSU's kicker's pants? I've never seen football pants that short before. Kinda scary. At least there is still some good NFL football left since the Colts and Packers are around this weekend (and hopefully for a couple more after). tag:WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM,2007://1.1247 2007-12-31T16:15:43Z 2007-12-31T16:21:09Z

I finally installed Windows Vista a couple days ago. Despite all of the negative press it has received, I am pretty happy with it so far. I've found a few programs that don't play well with it (iTunes seems to keep crashing, and a few other utilities that I used on XP), but for the most part, all of the applications I normally use work just as well on Vista. There really aren't a lot...

Adam www.pipesnetwork.com I finally installed Windows Vista a couple days ago. Despite all of the negative press it has received, I am pretty happy with it so far. I've found a few programs that don't play well with it (iTunes seems to keep crashing, and a few other utilities that I used on XP), but for the most part, all of the applications I normally use work just as well on Vista. There really aren't a lot of reasons to upgrade, and if you don't have a beefy computer, you'll be sorry you did. On the surface, it's mostly graphics upgrades (the Aero interface). These can be turned off to speed your computer back up, but I'm keeping them for now. My favorite new feature is how integrated the search feature is. Every window has search built in, as does the start menu. This makes it a ton easier to find files and things. The biggest change to me is where all of the files for a specific user account are located. Since all of the locations have changed, I've had to update several scripts and programs that I use to synchronize and backup files to use the new locations ("Documents and Settings" folder is no more). This may very well be the last Microsoft OS that I don't have to pay full price for, so let's hope it hangs around for at least a little while (although it's not really supposed to).