December 2004 - Posts
From VSEditor's WebLog
If you use documentation created by Build Comment Web Pages in Visual Studio 2003, you will experience problems viewing the documentation after upgrading to Windows XP SP2.
The easiest workaround is to use Visual Studio to do a Find and Replace to change the tag in the documentation to one that is accepted by Internet Explorer.
1. Go to Edit/Find and Replace/Replace in Files
2. In the Find what: type: <!-- saved from url=(0007)http:// -->
3. In the Replace with type: <!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
4. Ensure regular expressions is not checked.
5. In the look in type the directory where the web pages are stored.
6. Click Replace All to execute the search.
Background
The tag is that is the problem here is called the “Mark of the Web“. IE adds the Mark of the Web to web pages that are saved from the internet. This way IE can detect that the content was originally from the internet zone and it should be treated as such. In this instance, the page was not saved from the internet but Visual Studio used http:// to force it to the internet zone. In Windows XP SP2, the IE team did work to tighten up the items which were permissable and http:// was accidentally excluded. The IE team assures me that the original mark of the web that is generated by VS 2003 does not represent a security risk.
Good tips from Don Box on giving technical talks. Fun quotes:
"If you don't know it at 10PM you are not going to know it at 4AM"
"PowerPoint is meaningless"
"[PowerPoint] is a cancer"
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=31792
My "Elegant Universe" find got me thinking, "what are the great, free, streaming media finds out there?"
To date the best resource I have found is http://www.learner.org/ . All kinds of goodies, for example, they have 52 half hour instructional series to learn French. Similar offerings are available for Spanish, Chinese, and German.
What are your finds?
I just found out that the PBS series on string theory, “The Elegant Universe”, is online!
You can watch at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
For those of you, like me, that hate installing real or quicktime, you can install the codecs for windows media player from here http://www.free-codecs.com/
Somehow I had missed the Phidgets world (http://www.phidgetsusa.com/, http://www.phidgets.com/). I came across them today, reading about a flight simulator. These things look so cool :)
Makes you want to start automating the world.
Just tried the new
MSN Spaces, take a look the blog I created,
http://spaces.msn.com/members/doval/ . The themes feature is quite nice :)