1. CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE – Displays the methods and overload list of a method or class
2. CTRL + J – Displays all of the members of an object.

From Mark Wagner

Is anyone else getting pelted with the MyTob virus? I’m getting about 4 an hour, oddly enough, all to jargondatabase.com email addresses.

After being down since Tuesday, I finally have the Dude (my home server) revived, and all it took was a new hard drive, 8 hours of experimentation, three attempts at trying to upgrade everything before doing a clean install, a clean install, a mass name change of database objects, and I didn’t even those any data. A corrupted boot sector is just no fun at all.

Thursday was quite hectic for me, I work 15 and a half hours, then I continue on into Friday morning. I stop drinking caffeine earlier than I usually do with the express intent of being quite sleepy around 2:00 or so at the very latest.

It all goes according to plan; I’m sleepy and about ready to doze off around midnight. And then what happens? I work a bit later than I intend to, and at 2:30 I get a second wind. I’m now quite awake

All that being said, here’s what I was going to blog about today:

I got my server working again, sort of. I think a part of the boot sector got corrupted, I wasn’t able to do the upgrade around it and had to do a clean install on the new drive. I was able to pull off all of the data and databases off of the original drive, which works fine so long as you don’t boot off of it.

However, all of my setting were lost and I can’t log into the database with any of my old username and passwords. Hence my intranet is down. Any ideas any of my many technical readers?

And of course, now that I reboot my server (I had turned it off to disconnect the monitor cable to install the KVM switch) I get problems. The server boots normally, but just as it gets to the login screen it reboots and the Bios then displays “Disk boot failure, Insert System Disk and press enter”. The server had been going for several weeks between reboots.

Ideas anyone? I seem to recall the last time this happened it was a memory problem, which could be the case. That CPU/mobo/ram is pretty ancient. The hard drive is only 10 months old though.

I just saw this D-Link KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) as a Buy.com “Deal of the Day” and I have to say, it works very well. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it came with six foot cables (I think the average is 3 foot cables). I can finally have more room for all of my other stuff on that desk in my office.

After a full day’s worth of using the FeedDemon I’m switching back to Abilon. While FeedDemon actually functioned better in every respect, I dislike not being able to see all of the feeds at the same time. Tabbed browsing in the program is essential too. Oh well. I suppose Abilon can always improve with time.

I’ve been using the free version of Abilon for a while. It’s very good at some things, the tabbed browsing inside the RSS program itself is especially nice, but it has the unpleasant habit of choking when it tries to update the feeds. Also it will sometimes “lose” feeds. No idea why that happens. I’m current experimenting with FeedDemon but it does not have tabbed browsing inside the program. I’ll keep my loyal readers posted on what I decide.

If only there were some kind of product placement and review system for the blogsphere!