Archive for the ‘General’ Category

I feel like I need to say it.  Don’t trust data that is in the cloud.  One of the original social bookmarking sites, del.icio.us, is set to be shut down as reported by TechCrunch in the post  Delicious may be shut down by Yahoo.
A comment on the article pretty much sums up the collective users’ [...]

If just got Verizon FiOS and are now having issues sending out of your GoDaddy email account (you are using smtpout.secureserver.net with Outlook or another email app) try changing the your Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 80.
This was frustrating as many posts mentioned different solutions… so I figured I’d post the solution I found [...]

At one point I migrated a couple of my blogs to Graffiti CMS.  Although I do just about everything in ASP.NET, I can no longer use Graffiti solely for that reason.  WordPress is just far superior (for my purposes) in every aspect.
Graffiti CMS is now open source and can be found and downloaded from codeplex.  [...]

Dude, I full on Swayze-d that mother

Posted: 16th September 2009 by marc in General
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It is sad that Patrick Swayze recently passed away due to pancreatic cancer.  I remember watching The Beast one time last year late at night.  It was the only time I ever watched it.  You could tell then that Swayze wasn’t in great shape, battling the cancer that eventually would take his life. 
So I [...]

Community Server 2009 Release Date Update (CS 2009)

Posted: 24th February 2009 by marc in General
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For those that attended the in.Telligent conference, you may be wondering where CS 2009 is in terms of development and release date, as it was originally scheduled for February.  As I have heard nothing lately about Community Server, with the economy essentially crumbling, and even a strong company like Telligent downsizing, I began worrying about [...]

300 Days – Time To Reboot

Posted: 21st January 2009 by marc in General
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When is it time to reboot your computer?  Generally when it gets sluggish, apps start crashing, windows still appear after you have closed the application, etc.  I had my old office computer running for a long time.  Usually I would just RDP into it, and never really ran too many apps.  It’s one of the [...]

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When working in SharePoint Services 3.0 today I encountered a strange error.  I tried to open the Shared Documents folder in the document center using Windows Explorer view and I got following error message ("Client Does Not Support opening this list with Windows Explorer"). 
I am running Vista Ultimate 64-Bit version and using Internet Explorer [...]

Setting up Graffiti CMS

Posted: 21st October 2008 by marc in General
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I’m here at the in.telligent conference and so I have decided to take the time to setup Graffiti CMS.   It has something I have been meaning to do for a while, and really didn’t take long at all. 
So what is Graffiti?  I would say it is comparable to Wordpress in terms of functionality, however it [...]