Of Ones and Zeros

Restoring eMachine T3085 from provided CDs

Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by bryan.

I do believe that eMachines should receive some type of award for requiring the most convoluted process of system restoration of any manufacturer.  To be fair, I don’t believe the intent was for it to be this difficult, but alas, it is.  At least it is on my old T3085.  I recently had the primary [...]

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Back online!

Posted on 03. Dec, 2008 by bryan.

To all of my beloved reader, Of Ones and Zeros is back after a temporary service disruption today.  A thousand apologies for any inconvenience this has cause you or your family during this holiday season.  With any luck, there will be no more of these:

Special thanks to Bill Hackley for the embarrassing screenshot!

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Microsoft releases new ASP.NET charting control for … FREE!

Posted on 30. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

This past week Scott Guthrie announced a new ASP.NET charting control from Microsoft for free.  Details are in Scott’s blog posting, from the screen shots it looks quite capable.  I’m anxious to have an opportunity to kick the tires on this control, thanks MS!

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Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 7000

Posted on 19. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

I found it time to retire the venerable Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Elite made famous from the cover of Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction:

At the time I purchased it, about 3 years ago, I believed it to be the cats meow of keyboards.  And I was probably right.  I usually [...]

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"The security validation for this page is invalid"

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

I’m currently working on a SharePoint project that makes extensive use of programmatically setting ListItem ACL’s.  There is a List Event Handler which sets ACLs on the ItemAdded event, but then there is an administrative interface that enables administrators to reassign list items to another user which effectively means replacing the ACLs for the ListItem [...]

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PNY Attache 1G USB flash survives washing machine

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

I’ve been in the habit the past few weeks of leaving items in my pockets which end up on an adventure through the washing machine.  The latest participant was my PNY Attache 1G USB Flash drive.

I thought for certain it was a goner.  I left it on my desk overnight to dry out and [...]

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Where is my storage space going?

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

Over the past few weeks I have had several instances of where I need to know how where space is being allocated within a site collection.  For instance, one client has seen tremendous growth of the site collection database, but is not sure how/where/why the space is being used.  Another client has also seen rapid [...]

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The SharePoint Development Tax

Posted on 04. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

Typically when you are talking about SharePoint the conversation revolves around all of the great "out of the box" functionality you receive with the product.  In no way do I intend to argue against that, SharePoint is a fantastic product that does many things very well.
SharePoint as a development platform… well, that’s a whole different [...]

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Value does not fall within the expected range

Posted on 09. Oct, 2008 by bryan.

I’ve been battling this error several times over the past few weeks in varying contexts.  Today’s occurrence was in accessing "Page Settings" of a MOSS Page.  Thanks to YongYS for the following fix:
http://www.bronios.com/index.php/2008/01/18/moss-page-setting-error-value-does-not-fall-within-the-expected-range/
A few weeks ago I was running into this issue after backing up a content database and moving it to another farm.   Thanks [...]

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Custom Workflows with Collect Data

Posted on 25. Jun, 2008 by bryan.

In the past week I have implemented several custom workflows for a client using SharePoint Designer.  The workflows were pretty simple:  A Forms Services form would be completed, in the form would be a the Manager’s name and e-mail address.  The workflow would use the "Collect Data" action to perform an approval workflow, assigning an [...]

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