Scott Hanselman

Rogers Cadenhead reminds us of our BBS days...

This month marks the 25th birthday of the bulletin board system, the old-school online network invented by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess.
As someone who began using a BBS in 1981 and claims to have invented the BBS door game, I could inflict all kinds of punishing remembrances.
You kids today got it good. Back then we transmitted our data over acoustic modems at 300 bits per second. And we were grateful!

Ah...to be young and foolish!  I remember running my BBS out of my parent's garage (what computer geek didn't live in their parent's garage?).  I was doing contract programming on Windows 3.1, back when Hello World! was 93 lines of C and SDK code.  I started out running Wildcat BBS software and a pile of door games (thanks Rogers!)  I multi-tasked with the help of QEMM and Desqview.  Then I moved up to OS/2 and a Digiboard.  At the peak of Tweak Computer Support BBS we were running multiple lines happily on a single 486 with 8 megs.  I started at 1200bps, but when it ended, I think I was just looking at a sweet new USR 9600 v.Everything.

Rogers:  You might take a look at http://www.telery.com/, they let you play classic BBS Door Games on the 21st century 'Net!  GO Tradewars!

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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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Some folks have noticed that Stored Procedure Debugging was not working after applying SP3 to SQL Server 2000.  If you run into this, the trick is to call

This is a new security switch that was added in SP3 and only affects App Debugging.  Also, note that the setting doesn't stick, and you'll need to call it each time you start up the SQL 2K Server.

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I'm starting to use .NET's RegEx class all over...in ways I never expected.  Here's the tools and sites I'm using lately:

• Expresso is a new free tool for working with regular expressions in .NET. [Larkware]
• Of course, RegexDesigner.NET from Chris Sells
• The Regular Expression builder inside of SharpDevelop (which is worth the download just to read the SharpDevelop code!)

And Library Resources:

• RegExLib.com has 213 Regular Expressions at last count (and is hosted by the kick-ass ORCSWeb)
• The Early Adopter Regular Expression Repository at 3Leaf
• The Regular Expression Workbench at GotDotNet.com
• Miloslav's Regular Expression Reference
• Dan Appleman's Regular Expressions with .NET book
• The Tao of Regular Expressions

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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 woke up with a need to find new wallpaper, and with 2 monitors at home and 2 at work, my work was cut out for me.  Here's some links to rockin' sweet new wallpapers from my friend at Panic, Steven Frank.

http://www.prevision.dk/photo.html
http://mandolux.com/
http://www.veer.com/ideas/wallpaper/
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/desktops.html

The new wallpaper (seen at right) I'm using is here.

(Cultural note: If she's meant to represent a woman of Islamic faith, it's possibly not accurate since: 1. Her green eyes are probably contacts.  2. Most devout Mulsim women who wear burkas avoid eye makeup. 3. The text is in an english font that harkens to the Devanagari scripts, which are Northern Indian and Indo-Aryan, not Hamito-Semitic like Arabic.)

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Outlook2RSS UPDATE: Looks like my Outlook2RSS actually is useful!  Jorge Curioso has built a blog using Outlook2RSS (Which he updated with some Regular Expressions to strip out unwanted tags like HTML and BODY) and ASP.  This is kind of the poor man's inverse of Ingo's Outblog as it's a command-line application that runs as a scheduler task and extracts MailItems or PostItems from Outlook Folders or Public Folders.

Jorge's new blog built on ASP and Outlook2RSS supports these kinds of URLs:

Main Site: http://ocw.abf.tulane.edu/blog/
By Post: http://ocw.abf.tulane.edu/blog/?item=63181048826620
By Date: http://ocw.abf.tulane.edu/blog/?date=2/16/2003

He also points out that this blog is "fully proof-of-concept and prototype in nature." 

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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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