I logged into our Microsoft Partner site so I could change our profile a little… Take a look at what I had on my screen…
Dropdowns work but everything between the header and footer… Ohh Well…

We had a mobile application that we descided to migrate to Visual Studio 2005 from 2003. Going through the wizard, everything went perfect. After the 2005 conversion, the project by default references the .NET 1.1 files used in the 2003 project.

To get the project completely migrated to the Compact Framework 2.0 on VS 2005, you must select Project from the toolbar, and then Upgrade project. This will migrate all your references to 2.0 Framework.

Ok… just found something cool.

SQL 2005 now has password expiration for SQL authentication similar like a domain account.

(NOTE: I am not an expert on this so…..)

I created a user ‘myUser’ so my application could login to the database.

Ran the app only to get a message stating that the account needs to change the password. Hum… never had to do that before.

Anyway, log story short. There are now new security measures in place turned on by default in SQL 2005. When you create a SQL user, you can enforce password policy and even force the user to change their password on next login.

I removed the user and added it back using the below script.

DROP LOGIN myUser
GO>

CREATE LOGIN myUser WITH PASSWORD=‘P@ssw0rd’>
, DEFAULT_DATABASE=DefaultDB
, DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[us_english]
, CHECK_EXPIRATION=OFF      –This makes the password never expire
, CHECK_POLICY=OFF            –This does not enforce the password policy

GO

EXEC sys.sp_addsrvrolemember @loginame = N‘myUser’, @rolename = N’sysadmin’ (or other role)

GO>

For those who don’t know, my son Jacob has started his first season in organized sports. His team is the Dodgers. He is very excited and enjoys it very much.

Here are all his games. All games are 5:30 except the 10:15 game on 3/25. They are all held at Greenwood here in Florence.

03/25/06   SAT   Braves
03/28/06   TUE   Cubs
03/30/06   THU   Red Sox (H)
04/03/06   MON   Red Sox
04/05/06   WED   Braves (H)
SPRING BREAK
04/17/06   MON   Braves (H)
04/20/06   THU   Red Sox
04/26/06   WED   Red Sox
04/28/06   FRI   Braves (H)
05/01/06   MON   Braves (H)
05/03/06   WED   Braves
05/09/06   TUE   Cubs (H) 
05/10/06   WED   Reds

I have been using Windows Live Search for a little while now…

Here are some Cool Things I like about it.

1. I really like search page navigation… There is no need to click Page 2, then Page 3… Live search you can just keep scrolling down.
2. The main search page is simple. Just a picture/logo, and a search box.
3. When I search for Chris Reeder
1. My Genealogy Website www.ChrisReeder.com is 1st, On Google; 6th.
2. This site, www.StupidProgrammer.com is 3rd, On Google; 51st (WHAT!!!! Is google on drugs?)

>

Number 3 is enough reason to prove it is a great search engine… Right!!!!

Some Non-Cool things:

1. Kinda slow on the search compared to Google. But it is fast enough to use.
2. Cannot say “I googled it”… “I Lived it” just is not the same.
3. Hum… cannot thing of another.

Give it a try for yourself: http://search.live.com

P.S. Google does return this site first if you search for “Stupid Programmer.”
If someone wants to find my site, they would search for Chris Reeder…
Oh well, I guess Google is telling me to be known as Stupid Programmer instead.

See, I told you it works!!!!

Today’s Dilbert…

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060316.html

We had a few machines setup by a client then sent to us to load an application we wrote for them. They could not remember the password for the Administrator account. We sure did not remember it…

Within 15 minutes, I found something, downloaded it, had to figure out what a FLOPPY was.. (just kidding) and make my boot disk. I booted off the floppy (CD version available) and several prompts later, I was able to reset the Administrator password by booting on a Linux boot disk.

Nice little tool to have.

Found it here: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

Tool I used: Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (v050303) (bd050303.zip is the one I downloaded)

Ok, this hit too close to home. A co-worker sent this to me and I had to laugh. I have a plant in my office that is growing like crazy!!! It has dark green healthy leaves. Did I mention it was a VERY good looking plant!!! Catch is… I pretty much only give it cold leftover coffee to drink.

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060315.html

For further coffee reading…
http://www.stupidprogrammer.com/PermaLink,guid,4aa9a922-e034-4fad-8b8c-26aa9b9eb9c2.aspx

Here are the Florence, SC games for the Lady Bruins.

3/07   Marlboro County
3/09   @West Florence
3/17   Conway
3/18   Hillcrest
3/21   Hartsville
3/23   Darlington
3/28   West Florence
3/31   Sumter
4/20   PLAYOFFS!!!

Here are the Florence, SC games for the Knights.

3/07   Conway
3/10   South Florence
3/13   @Wilson
3/14   Marlboro County
3/21   Sumter
3/25   Wilson
3/28   @South Florence
3/30   Darlington
4/04   Hartsville
4/20   PLAYOFFS!!!