by Bruce | Nov 20, 2007 | General
Last VS2008 post, I promise …. If you are installing on Vista, especially if you have a 64-bit version, and especially if you’ve installed the beta versions – then a few things may happen. First rule of installing / uninstalling something is to...
by Bruce | Nov 19, 2007 | Development
VS2008 install notes: Took about 1 hour and 15 minutes to install (not bad really – way less than the Visual Studio 2005 SP1). But, if you are installing VS2008 to get at Silverlight 1.1, hold off for a little while and stick with VS2008 Beta2 – the...
by Bruce | Nov 19, 2007 | Development
<geek_speak> The blogscape is alive with posts – start your downloaders (p.s. if you keep getting bounced using Internet Explorer, try Firefox (it has a different download manager))….....
by Bruce | Nov 13, 2007 | General
Each year we have been taking a driving vacation out of Grand Rapids. It is typically 10-14 days with some final destination (turn-around point). We’ve found that driving 6-9 hours a day is optimal (depending on what you want to do at the interim...
by Bruce | Nov 7, 2007 | General
a.k.a. when that cough isn’t “just a cough” I know the trend lately has been that antibiotics are prescribed when they aren’t needed, and the fall/winter colds and flu are usually a virus. But that is not always true. If you’ve got...