Archive for the 'OS' Category
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Number of Apple computers in my house: 4 Number of Apple computers with Leopard: 2 Time spent downloading and installing iPhone SDK: approx. 30 min. Time spent learning Cocoa and Objective-C: approx. 8hrs iPhone Applications developed to date: 0 Book(s) I’m planning to purchase: 1 Technorati Tags: apple, iphone, development
Posted in Apple, iPhone, OS 10.5 Leopard | No Comments »
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Following up my recent LDNUG presentation of Windows Vista and the .NET 3.0 Framework, here is a screenshot tour of my installation journey with Windows Vista on Virtual PC 2007. Prerequisites Virtual PC 2007 (free download) A healthy amount of RAM (I have 1GB, it ran fine once I turned off some services like SqlServer [...]
Posted in Humor, Microsoft, Vista, Windows | 5 Comments »
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
I remember feeling a little defensive when I first learned that not all Mac users love Safari. Perhaps it was because I was being ridiculed for liking Safari. I have tried several times to make Firefox my primary browser on the Mac (it already is on PC), but keep coming back. However, it is becoming [...]
Posted in Apple, browsers, OS 10.5 Leopard, Safari, WebKit | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 29th, 2006
Why would you want to do this? I’m not sureyet, but as an ASP.NET developer, I know I’m probably going to need to understand how to use it. The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0, which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. You can [...]
Posted in ASP.NET, technology & web, Windows, XP | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
I’m setting up a new PC with all the tools a Web Developer might need. While installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005, I encountered the following error during setup: SQL Server Setup failed to obtain system account information for the ASPNET account. To proceed, reinstall the .NET Framework, and then run SQL Server Setup again. This [...]
Posted in ASP.NET, MS SQL, Windows, XP | 5 Comments »
Friday, October 13th, 2006
My home PC (an ancient HP) running Windows XP Pro crashed today (again). I guess Visual Studio, Sql Management Studio, Internet Explorer and an install (updated Atlas Control Toolkit) were too much for the old girl! When I rebooted The following message displayed: Operating system not found I rebooted again and everything was normal. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in Apple, Software, technology & web, Windows, XP | 3 Comments »
Friday, August 4th, 2006
Chris Fay has a well written tutorial on how to install and configure Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP server. He also walks through the steps to install the Gnome desktop, Webmin, and ProFTPD. I found a prettier version of the same tutorial. It includes comments by others, followup by Chris, and links to related tutorials.Technorati Tags: Ubuntu, [...]
Posted in Linux, OS, Ubuntu | No Comments »