I recently came across the unthinkable when working in a database. My SA account got locked out and I couldn’t reset the password through SQL Server Management Studio. Fortunately, I had another highly privileged account and the following trick. Basically Continue reading
I recently ran into a strange error when I upgraded my home backup server to Windows 7 from Windows XP. Every computer in the house (2 W7 laptops and 1 W8 desktop) could push backup images across the network except Continue reading
I ran into a problem while trying to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials on an old Windows XP laptop. No matter what I did I couldn’t get it to uninstall. Thankfully, Microsoft has a handy little utility for such a problem. Continue reading
In recent projects I’ve been ditching listboxes in favor of the gridview control. Then I wanted to select multiple items for editing, deleting and so on. So I added template fields with checkboxes. Well then I wanted the ability to Continue reading
I’m a big fan of an application that Asus preloads onto its Transformer models. This is called Supernote and it’s the best note taking app I’ve used on a tablet. The problem is, it only comes with the Asus tablets. Continue reading