August 30, 2011 9:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Football,
FunThis year in my IT league for Fantasy Football the guy that is the commissioner is out of town for our draft and some how I was nominated to be the commissioner and run the draft. While this is an honor it really is not something that I am prepared to do. But I will give it a shot and see how it...
August 30, 2011 3:33 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Football,
FunFootball is back and the regular season is about to start. I am excited about it but I do not know about you but I am pretty frustrated with all professional sports. When the lockout occurred I would have been fine with no season and even better if the league would have said your fired to all the...
August 27, 2011 9:00 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
SQL ServerWhen creating a SQL Server level account and not using windows authentication, how do you set things up so that you know you have a complex password that meets your requirments? Well that is what the is_policy_checked option is for. If that is set = 1 then SQL Server will read your password policy...
August 26, 2011 9:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
GamesThat is correct! because of agreements that Gamestop has with Square Enix the publisher of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Gamestop will not sell the game as it was shipped with a coupon for online PC play free via Square’s OnLive gaming service. At first Gamestop was just opening every box and...
August 26, 2011 3:31 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
EVO3D,
HTC EVO3D,
PhoneThanks to HTC I was able to root my EVO3D. I have not put another ROM on it and I am not going to yet. I am very happy with the stock ROM and everything works great but it is very nice to have the phone rooted so that I can do some things with it that were not possible before. So if you have an HTC...
August 25, 2011 12:40 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Apple,
End of an Era,
Steve JobsWow Steve Jobs finally steps down. Check it out here. I must say that I have never been a big Apple fan, not just the computers but any of the products apple puts out. Sure the Ipod and the Iphone are nice and...
August 24, 2011 3:35 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Cheap,
Gadget,
TabletIf you are like me you missed out on the crazy sale of the HP touchpads. but I just got on a mailing list to find out when more will be available. Here is a link.
August 20, 2011 10:00 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Errors,
SQL ServerLast week I came across a SQL Server that was running 2005 SP2 and I thought "hmm I should upgrade this to SP4'" So I got a time to do it and I went along my merry way. Well I started the install and everything installed just fine except the database engine failed. The error in the log file said...
August 19, 2011 4:53 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Android,
PhoneEarlier this month I did a post evo3d-bug-that-is-the-most-annoying and I wanted to do a follow up on that and let you know that the BUG has been fixed. Yesterday I got an upgrade to 2.3.4 and now when...
