Scott Hanselman

I got an email from ORCSWEB, my most excellent hosting company (check them out) that I'd used over 230 GIGs of bandwidth for the month. Oy. First, I was happy that the site is doing well, then I was disturbed. Something MUST be wrong.

So, I asked them to hook me up with a better stats package than the default and they hooked up SmarterStats immediately. I checked it out:

Notice anything odd there? Yes, my favicon.ico used 27 GIGS of bandwidth in the month. Yikes.

Turns out my icon was 70k, as I made it a wonderful high-quality "Vista" icon in an attempt to make things pleasant and everything for folks. Of course, I didn't noticed when it was taking up over 11% of my monthly bandwidth.

Long story short, I changed my icon from a multi-resolution (6 resolutions, all 16M colors) to a simpler one using Junior Icon Editor that has 3 resolutions at 16 colors and still looks nice. The icon is now under 4k, a 95% reduction that should lower this month's bandwidth by 25 GIGS.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Considering that this machine had Windows XP SP1 on it, this doesn't bode well for the new year.

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This was a silly thing to do, but I noticed this message on a private mailing list I subscribe to:

Is there a [good] deal for PC Anywhere? One of my clients needs me to have it

and I just had to respond:

Ya, and I need a copy of QEMM. Got a few TSRs I need to load into the UMB. Oh, and Stacker 2, my RLL 50meg Winchester Drive is filling up with Borland’s new TurboVision headers.

And since my own dorky response made me chuckle out loud, I thought I'd share.

What archaic (meaning: older than like 2 years ;) ) software does your workplace force you to use? Discuss.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I have a love/hate relationship with my Iomega Rev Drive. I love the drive, but I hate Iomega.

The drive hasn't worked in Vista since I upgraded due to lack of drivers, and that's cramped my backup strategy. However, I noticed today beta drivers for Vista up on their incrediblycraptastic support site.

Here's the direct links so you don't have to futz around. Good luck.

• Vista Compatibilty with Rev Drive
• Automatic Backup doesn't work anymore.
• Vista Compatibilty Support Forum - complain here
• Vista Rev Drivers Public Beta Page
• Direct Link to the Beta Drivers - subversion 5005.
• Feedback Survey

It's a great little piece of hardware, the Rev Drive, it's just got yucky software because they choose to make it look like a UDF (DVD/CD) device, rather than a removable hard drive (which would have been my preference.)

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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We're getting closer and closer to 2010, and it's tripping me out. This is the last post of 2006. Here's some of the things I felt good about this year in no particular order. Also, here's the complete archive of 2006 posts for this blog in calendar form.

• Africa Rollup
• Zune vs. iPod Video vs. iRiver Clix
• Controlling a Viper Robot with a Serial Port
• 44 Hanselminutes Podcasts in 2006! Thanks Carl!
• CardSpaces Screencast Thanks to Stuart Celarier!
• Baby Sign Language
• Z is one year old
• In search of the perfect monospaced programmers font - Inconsolata
• October 2006 - My Reading List - Home
• Monetizing your Blog
• Onkyo TX-SR674 HDMI Upconverting Receiver
• The First 12 Hours - The Medtronic Minimed Paradigm REAL-time Continuous Glucose Monitor
• Patterns and Practices Webcast - Open Source in the Enterprise
• DNRTV - Sysinternals Tools
• How Geeks become Do-It-Yourselfers and Tile their Kitchen
• The Importance of being UTF-8
• Diary of a Vista RC1 Install - Upgrading My Main Machine to Windows Vista RC1
• Coding4Fun Hardware Webcast - Available Offline
• A New Private Browser - I mean Browzar - does not work as advertised
• Making DasBlog work on Mobile Devices
• Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Hanselminutes available on iTunes
• DasBlog 1.9 Released
• Example: How to contribute a patch to an Open Source Project like DasBlog
• Replacing Start Run - The Quest Continues
• Scott Hanselman: Developer Productivity Tools Videos
• Do I sleep?
• WatirMaker written again in Ruby Thanks Michael Kelly!
• Searching Google Desktop from PowerShell
• Testing PowerShell scripts with NUnit
• PowerShell, AnkhSVN and Subversion
• Diabetes Walk 2006 - The Day of the Walk and Team Hanselman - We raised USD$12,000 for fighting Diabetes! Watch for more interesting stuff and a surprise regarding Diabetes in 2007!
• If you love your family and your kids, do not play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - It's that good
• ASP.NET MVP Hacks Thanks David Yack!
• Scott Hanselman, 11 Successful Large Projects, 3 Open Source Applications, 1 Collossal Failure
• Tracking down a Trojan
• Interview with a PSP Developer - Doug Beck
• Is Open Source a Crap Idea?
• Grandpa
• INETA ASP.NET Canada Roadshow
• More on Alternate Linksys Firmware
• NUnit/Watir/Ruby Test Integration
• Zero to Three Month Baby Ultimate Tools List

Sure, this is just a list of links, but it's the posts that I thought were the best out of the hundreds I ended up posting this year. Hope next year is fantastic for you and yours.

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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