http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/ "Look up, Get up, but don't ever give up." en Copyright 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:56:59 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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. http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_04_18.php#001261 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_04_18.php#001261 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:56:59 -0500 , a fancy photo sharing thing.]]> http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_04_02.php#001260 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_04_02.php#001260 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:54:21 -0500 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... http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_31.php#001259 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_31.php#001259 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:57:02 -0500 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... http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_26.php#001258 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_26.php#001258 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:51:44 -0500 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.]]> http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_21.php#001257 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_21.php#001257 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:21:39 -0500 http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3276537 ]]> http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_04.php#001256 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_03_04.php#001256 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:51:52 -0500 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. http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_02_20.php#001255 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_02_20.php#001255 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:06:28 -0500 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. http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_02_04.php#001254 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_02_04.php#001254 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:21:49 -0500 this out.]]> http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_29.php#001253 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_29.php#001253 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:29:10 -0500 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. http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_26.php#001252 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_26.php#001252 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:35:09 -0500 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! http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_20.php#001251 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_20.php#001251 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:33:36 -0500 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 :-)]]> http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_14.php#001250 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_14.php#001250 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:38:38 -0500 The Green Bay Packers just advanced to the NFC Title game by beating the Seahawks by 22 points. Thank you, come again. http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_12.php#001249 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_12.php#001249 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:07 -0500 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). http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_07.php#001248 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2008_01_07.php#001248 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:31:03 -0500 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). http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2007_12_31.php#001247 http://WWW.PIPESNETWORK.COM/MT/archive/2007_12_31.php#001247 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:15:43 -0500