I’m "thrilled" (pun intended) that MJ (Whacko Jacko, whatever you wanna call him) was found not guilty on all of the charges. To be honest, I thought they’d at least get him with the minor charges but ever since the beginning of this whole mess I maintained he was innocent. Why? Cause the guy is [...]
Archives for June 2005
Managed PerformanceCounter is a resource hog!
Okay I’ve been tracking down a mysterious explosion in “Allocated Bytes/sec” performance counter for the entire day. I’ve been watching an application that’s been running happily in a live environment for several days now for the first time and I’ve been keeping an eye on the performance counters every now and then. Well today I [...]
Updated PowerTrace to include Syslog functionality
I added a new TraceListener component called SyslogTraceListener that allows you to send trace output to a syslog server. Also built the DLL for .NET 1.1 too. Download PowerTrace Freeware Download Kiwi Syslog Daemon
Why can’t the news post something positive about Microsoft?
This pisses me off. I read this CNET article about Dell’s spyware-related tech support calls being halved since last year. They attribute it to “better consumer awareness” and the availability of anti spyware tools. Hello? Does it take a rocket scientist to realize that this is because of Windows XP Service Pack 2? This is [...]
TerminalTraceListener for .NET
I have just decided to release “PowerTrace” a .NET assembly that contains a very cool component called “TerminalTraceListener” that allows you to quickly and easily debug your apps running in either production or staging environments. What is PowerTrace? PowerTrace is the name of the “product” although currently it only consists of one component. It’s also [...]
Mentally Disturbing Popup
This is pretty creepy. If I worked with the guy that came up with this, I’d probably request that a metal detector be installed at work.
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