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More RAM is always a good cure.

My workstation is a Dell 4600 that I got about this time last year.  It originally came seriously underpowered with only 256 MB of PC3200 DDR RAM so I immediately bought an additional 512 and have been running 768MB for the last year pretty well…

Recent experiences with mapping software for web use

About a month ago I was doing some R&D for a project we were contemplating taking on.  Our portion of the project was to design the front end of a kiosk application for a large national retail company.  They wanted to do a pilot of a couple of dozen…

SpamBayes

Well, I took Michael Eaton’s advice from his comment to a post I made a few days ago and downloaded and installed SpamBayes .  It has only been about an hour since I did so, but I am pleased so far.  Thanks for the advice, Michael!

Comment to Paul Wilson's post "Getting Ready for my UI Mapper Release"

(this comment is in reference to Paul’s post . I would have left it there, but it started getting long and I decided I probably wanted it posted here.) Paul, Though I haven’t tried the WilsonORMapper, I am a long time reader and subscriber, and I…

Note to self check this out later - setting up CS for single blog

Dan, make sure that you come back and re-read this article once Community Server has been officially released.  Looks like some good info. (via RoudyBob ) Hey, I know the CS RC is out, but have I mentioned before that I’m not one for messing…

.Text, Open Source Projects, and other tidbits

The group of developers using .Text, customizing it, etc. is a pretty small and tight-knit community.  I have learned a lot recently. It has been exciting to be involved with the goings-on (solutions to stop comment spam, etc) and the evident pleas…

RSS Aggregators - NewsGator, FeedDemon

I use NewsGator’s Outlook plug-in to aggregate RSS feeds I want to keep track of.  It’s easy for me because it puts everything inside Outlook, which I already have open 25 hours of every day. I really like NewsGator. I like how it adds right-click…

The comment spam blocking is working, now if I could just do the same with my email!!

I run several different pop email accounts through Outlook at home: my work account, two different accounts through my ISP, a couple of different Digger Solutions accounts and a couple of odds-n-ends accounts.  I’m guessing that both my ISP’s and…

New version of Digger Solutions Newsletter coming out soon.

Over the last few days I have taken a break from porting my intranet application from ASP to ASP.NET to do the same with my newsletter application.  I decided to take a detour from the intranet because it is just simply becoming tiring.  I hadn’t…

In dire need of an Xbox ???

If you are like me and didn’t get that Xbox you wanted for Christmas, you probably have been searching high and low for one since. After searching EVERY local store this week that might even carry video game hardware and checking all the major online…