Posted by Johan Cyprich on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips
I was recently creating a web application in Visual Web Developer 2005 and I needed to create a database through the ASP.NET Configuration interface. When I opened the Security tab, I got the following error:
There is a problem with your selected data store. This can be caused by an invalid server name or credentials, or [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 20 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips
Many people have been disappointed with Windows Vista when they realized that some of their applications are incompatible with the operating system. QuickBooks 2006 is one example of a program which will not work in Vista, even if you run it with the Windows XP compatibility mode.
Vista is a major upgrade to the Windows. Its [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Open source software receives a great deal of attention, but is it taking away sales from its commercial counterparts? Software sales were poor from 2000 to 2006, but sales in 2007 in the US were totaled at $3.3 billion. This does not include game software. Sales in 2007 were 15% higher than those in 2006.
Microsoft’s [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: General
Netcraft recently reported that there are 155,583,825 web sites on the Internet. There are at least 70 million blogs in that number, and it doesn’t include intranets which are increasingly being used by companies for managing and providing information to their employees.
The following list from Technorati shows the growth of blogging over the last 5 [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Applications
A serious security patch was the main reason for WordPress 2.3.3 being released 3 hours ago. There was a bug in the XML-RPC implementation which allows a registered user to edit posts of other users on a blog. This doesn’t affect this since I’m the only writer, but the offer is open to anyone who [...]
