Spat's WebLog (Steve Patrick)

I was cleaning out the garage a while back and finally tossed out my 1541 drive. I almost kept it, but have long since lost track of the C64 I had when I was a kid. I remember making “double sided disks” with my Mom’s hole puncher and making sure that...

cool news! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-12MSSunAlliancePR.mspx

How to debug Windows services covers the main points – but I think a common issue is debugging why a service won’t start. When the service is failing on start – you can’t simply start it and then quickly attach the debugger – you need to have the...

Ahh yes.. the conch shell . I run into weird problems all the time.. this was on of those weird problems. The high level statement was this: "Clients in remote sites are accessing mapped drives via explorer and the UI hangs for 10-15 minutes, they...

Odd things … Well - its been very busy around here and I haven't had a lot of time for posts.. but h ere was an interesting one… at least I thought so. It began with the following events being posted – it appeared that there was something...

So many reg keys, so little time AutoBackupLogFiles - backs up the event logs "Using this entry causes the Event Log service to automatically clear a full event log and to back up the log file. " http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312571

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/malaria/2003897861_malariatanzania09.html When you stop and think about it - - Bill really could turn out to be one the most influential man in .... well, in a long long time. :) ( Randy, i think you were right...