The registry guy ***

Regular Expressions, regEx, is a cryptic way to find patterns. As you can tell by that sentence I don't have much experience with it at all. Here is a website which has a library of built expressions, and a place to test them.

Link

PDF from SQL, there is a lot of work in the sproc provided. Good jib on this one. Must have account setup to see.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mivica/creatingapdffromastoredprocedure.asp

A good list of default user names and passwords. I keep loosing the bookmark so here is another place to store it:
link

Rockford Lhotka has a great style for creating business objects using VB. Something Maureen introduced me to a few years ago. With the advent of .net Rockford has continued with his teachings and books with this new language. By popular demand he has written a book based on C# and that is where I have been concentrating most of my studying lately. Like many programmers I am trying to get this oop thing down, and down right. I understand the value of a good framework, now I need to REALLY understand how to put one together.

On lhotka.net a reference was made to this site. It contains a desktop reference to Rockford's CSLA.NET.

As some of you may know I have been studing Code Control lately as we need to get it emplimented into our shop. Well all I can say is, "What a pain in the ass." I mean there really isn't any great software apps out there for this. There are pro's and con's to each of them but none of them are totally intuitive or simple. The products still leave a lot of manual work in updates.

...Well I was just pulled away and I have know idea where I was, mentally.

I will continue on with why I am posting in this blog. I have some links to retain.

Sourcegear

support forum finds:
Knowledge Base
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So how fast is the speed of light? Well I am sure that many of you know, or knew in the past during those oh-so-fun years in physics class. The speed of light, c, in aproximately 300,000 KM/sec. Pretty darn fast. It is really amazing to me that light from the sun takse 8 minutes to reach earth. Here is an interesting website on this subject, What is the speed of light .com . It shows the many ways that the speed of light has been measured through the years until it became so accurate it became a constent that is used to measure the length of a meter (which was a less accurate known length then the speed of light!).

It's WIKI and it is Here
This is only one of the many types of WIKI

Ok, this is pretty important too. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is a little something from an on-line nerd. I found the person while looking information up on Quantum Physics. Ok, so I am a little nerdy too. Anyway here is his site; I am starting you at the "quotes" page.
http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/quote.html

Creating a Simplified Asynchronous Call Pattern for Windows Forms Applications

Creating a Simplified Asynchronous Call Pattern for Windows Forms Applications

Microsoft's new library, VS2005 Beta +
Welcome to the MSDN Online Library

More good raid stuff
Stripe Width and Stripe Size

AC&NC | RAID.edu - RAID Levels - RAID Level 10 - RAID 10

For your reference
/sbin/ifconfig eth0

With some large partition issues in the new 2.6 Linux kernal, here is a link to some information on fixing and preventing it. Nothing is simple, no wonder why the world sticks with microsoft.
Windows No Longer Boots Following the Installation of SUSE LINUX 9.1

Computerworld
READ IT, I do.

PHP Generic Access Control Lists A little reading for some day.

cp

Just because.gymnastique artistique

I need an HTML editor for use in my winforms. Help me find one:
Maybe this will help.
XStandard FREEWARE %2F SHAREWARE XHTML 1.1 WYSIWYG EDITOR

Checkmate With a King and Bishop Vs. a King

PHENOELIT

Default Password List.
Phenoelit

A hacker group
PHENOELIT

Al Qaeda Training Manual

ProofSecure.com - Web Application Security

Brett, Please take the time to read through this.
Great Hackers

A very important link for any Windows Programmers out there. The Business Objects man himself, Rockford Lhotka

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

craigslist: chicago online community

craigslist: san francisco bay area online community

Best remedy for a child's cough? Water
Over-the-counter syrups are a waste of money, study says

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER NEWS SERVICES
(Original Story)

A glass of water will do as much to relieve a child's cough as an expensive, over-the-counter cough syrup, a new study suggests.

The research, published in the medical journal Pediatrics, concludes that parents who treat a child's nighttime cough with the widely available medications are wasting their money.

"Consumers spend billions of dollars each year on over-the-counter medications for cough," said Ian Paul, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn State Children's Hospital in Hershey, Pa.

NOTE: This article has been updated since it was originally published in the newspaper.
"But our study showed that the two ingredients used in most over-the-counter medications were no better than a placebo, non-medicated syrup, in providing nighttime relief for children with cough and sleep difficulty as a result of upper-respiratory infection," he said.

About 95 percent of syrups, including the best-selling brands Benylin DM and Robitussin, have dextromethorphan as their active ingredient. It is an antitussive, which suppresses coughing. Other cough syrups contain diphenhydramine, an antihistamine, designed to reduce swelling in the respiratory tract. (Note: An incorrect description of dextromethorphan was given in the original version of this article.)

To conduct the study, researchers recruited 100 children with upper-respiratory-tract infections who had been coughing for an average of more than three days.

The children were given one of three treatments 30 minutes before bedtime: a cough syrup containing dextromethorphan, a cough syrup containing diphenhydramine or a placebo syrup.

Children in all three groups showed a dramatic reduction in cough frequency, but those taking the placebo -- essentially flavored water -- had the best results. On four other measures, the three treatments had virtually identical outcomes.

Paul said this demonstrates that time and proper hydration are the best treatment for most respiratory infections and that the benefit that comes from cough syrups is likely psychological.

The study confirms what many physicians already know. In fact, the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, a reference book used by physicians and written by an editorial board of medical experts, says there is little evidence that cough syrups provide any benefit.

Quit Smoking, good advice for anyone.
Illinois Tobacco-Free Communities

WCBS 880: The Osgood File

Have a friend who's machine was plagued with spyware. He was receiving all kinds of popups and slow internet access. Here is a great site for looking up installed programs to see if they have been identified as spyware!
Spyware Guide Database - Spyware, Malware and Adware
Ok, after I used it for a while, it's not a complete listing, but it was a help.

Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) - Home Page

If you have ever wanted to read about normalization here is a thread for you. I suggest you have some normalization knowledge because the propeller heads will make your brain spin.
dBforums - Normalization

It was so easy I can't believe it. I tried and tried and could copy DataRows between DataSets. But with a quick google search I found this Microsoft artical (308909) and have my answer. Incase you don't wish to follow the link it's tbl.ImportRow(dataRow); thats it.
308909 - HOW TO: Copy DataRows Between DataTables by Using Visual C# .NET

Information from Microsoft on update references and the different options available.
311047 - HOW TO: Keep Your Windows Computer Up-to-Date

3/4 of the way down is an example to compare data in two tables. It's VB.Net but should be fairly simple to convert to C#.

GotDotNet Message Boards

Read This! it pretty much sums it up. Please don't miss this one.
Scams, Lies, Deceit, and Offshoring

Not a bad column on database normalization. Gives some layman explainations with the standard dry one.

I am very happy to see this. OpenBSD guys made a whole pf section. As the pf services get more advanced this becomes so important. With my recent renewed inerest in OpenBSD I trust this will get me up to speed quickly with PF since version 3.2.
PF: The OpenBSD Packet Filter

This will be helpful for the greylisting. OpenBSD's implementation.
Manual Pages: spamd(8)

The Next Step in the Spam Control War: Greylisting
This is beautiful, it has many benefits. Best of all it works at the MTA level, making it real thin. Check it out, you really should. In the near future I will be implementing this with OpenBSD, a new daemon by them spamd.

A chicago Chess site.
Welcome to Chess in Chicago.org: Developing & Promoting Scholastic Chess in Chicago

Interesting information on multi-language database schema. Disscussion.
sitepointforums.com/...

For you out there who never new. Impress your spouse (ok, this is more for the guys)!
Traditional and Modern Anniversary Gifts Table

Download And Upload A File Using C#

I have been looking for a good openings site and I have finaly found one. This site contains more than 230,000 games from all level of players. Chess games .com

Home wiring site. Many good examples and instructions.

I am really surprised this wasn't up here already. It was an error that I posted it. I am sure glad I did. This is one of the best chess sites on the web. There are thousands and thousands of members. I have played against people from around the globe.
ChessWorld.net - the home of Email chess on the web!

Common words which are converted and spoken in many different languages.
travlang

Patrick Wolff's chess site.
WolffChess.com

netLibrary

US Chess Federation

Here is a MSKB article on Outlook and attachment file extensions.
312834 - OL2002: The "Level1Add" Registry Key Is Missing from Outlook 2002

Doors - MSN House & Home

patio door installation.

www.nhlpa.com - The Official Website of the National Hockey League Players' Association

MCSD for Microsoft .NET Certification Requirements

C# album viewer, exampless of retrieve and insert of images into a database, treeView and a picrure window. I wonder if I can use the widow for pdf's?
The Code Project - C# Photo Album Viewer - C# Database

SQLMatcher. Keep track of database changes (schema, not the data) that are made to the database.
BerryWare Web Site

Union Pacific Northwest Line METRA the only way to fly (cheaply around chicago anyway)
Metra / Union Pacific District Northwest Line Schedules

Here is a new link for us. Rolling Meadows public library catalog. It is a telnet server (tcp port 23).
Login using "library"
216.125.155.2

Data Access Application Block for .NET
Here is an interesting consept in the world of .NET. I am looking at the groups to see how well it actually works. Most importantly, how well it scales.

Traffic report anyone?

Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor Home Page

Orig: Wednesday, February 04, 2004
I may look at this someday, again!?!

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2

Welcome. Over the next few weeks I will get my related items over to this blog. For right now you will just have to look through them all. :) Thanks for comming by.