I was surprised to learn that PowerShell 2.0 was released last July. I’ve been running version 2 of the Community Technology Preview for over a year now. When you upgrade to a newer PowerShell, you need to uninstall the older version first. I installed the CTP edition, and then installed the latest version. This is [...]

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Yesterday, Windows XP computers that made an update to the 5958 DAT file for their virus scanner suffered catastrophic problems. They ranged from the system crashing with the infamous blue screen, constant rebooting, and losing connection to their networks. These problems only occured with computers running Windows XP which had Service Pack 3 installed. Windows [...]

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FCKEditor is a text editor that you can use in a web page. It has many more options than the text input boxes in HTML. This is a WYSIWYG editor and resembles desktop applications like Microsoft Word. It supports multiple languages, but if you want to use it in an ASP.NET site, the ASP.NET control [...]

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The first beta of WordPress 3.0 has just been released and I installed it to try out some of the new features. It’s in the early beta stage so I didn’t expect everything to work correctly, if at all. Setting Up WordPress The installation process went smoothly. It seemed like a typical WordPress install, except [...]

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