Check out the two Chinese students singing ; I do like the kid at the back who is too busy to be bothered. :)

As a few of you had requested below are links to some screen shots for the Belkin router. Current Status Login Screen LAN Settings DHCP Client List WAN Connection Type DNS MAC Address Wireless - Channel and SSID Security Use as Access Point MAC Address Control Firewall - Virtual Servers Firewall - Client IP Filters Firewall - DMZ Firewall - DDNS WAN Ping Blocking Parental Control Restart Router Restore Factory Defaults Save/Backup Current Settings Restore Settings Firmware Update System Settings ...

If you are writing an Indigo service and you can an error for something like the one shown below, then essentially you change the interface (i.e. your contract) you implemented in Indigo (now WCF), but forgot to change the interface in the web.config. <endpoint contract\="MY-TYPE-HERE" binding\="wsHttpBinding"/> Could not resolve type IMyService, contract cannot be created. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not resolve type IMyService, contract cannot be created. ...

I had send an email to a friend and based on the email bouncing I know I had the old email address; but this is one of the funniest error messages I have receive in a long time, it did put a smile on the face. Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mantramail.com. I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out. ...

Beware, there is a new IM worm that promises a picture of Santa, but instead delivers a rootkit! The initial message will appear to come from someone on your IM list and will include “santaclause.aol.com/a?|” DONT click on that link! The worm is called IM.GiftCom.All. Read more here .

If you introduce your wife as “ [email protected] ” If you have more toys than your kids If you need a checklist to turn on the TV If you can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary If you think that when people around you yawn, its because they didn’t get enough sleep If your wife hasn’t the foggiest idea what you do at work If you spend more on your home computer than your car Read more here . ...

Well it has been a week+ and the Belkin Pre-N Wireless Router I got has been humming away merrily, no issues so far - zilch, nada, nothing, null, unlike the Linksys piece-of-crap-good-for-nothing-junk ! Awesome! Have been very happy. I would highly recommend it. The first thing I did was update the firmware (it also has an auto-update feature, but more on that some other time). And once it was configured and up and running, did not need anything else. ...

While I totally agree with the concept of combacting rootkit with rootkit when it comes to the new generation of spyware, etc. (remember Sony’s need for control fiasco ), but my concern is there are many lazy programmers (yours truly included) out there and most companies are in a hurry to ship a product out the door without testing as thoroughly as one should, which means when dealing at the Kernel level for most end-users it could be a experience of more BSOD’s . ...

As part of the settlement with Sun, all the products containing MSJVM will be discontinued from MSDN Subscriber download in late December (which means any day now). Here is the list of products you won’t be able to download after this: Microsoft Application Center 2000 Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Resource Kit Microsoft DCOM for Windows 95 v1.1 Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 (2002 Edition) Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 & 2000 Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions Microsoft Handheld PC 2000 SDK Microsoft Infrared Communications for Windows 95 DDK Microsoft ISA Server 2000 Microsoft Plus! 98 Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Microsoft SNA Server 4.0 Service Packs 3 & Service Pack 4 Microsoft System Management Server 2.0 Microsoft Visual C++ (Alpha Systems) Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0c & 6.0d Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 2000 DDK Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 98 DDK Microsoft Windows CE SDKs & DDKs Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0 Microsoft Windows ME Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 DDK System Stress for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 & Windows 2000 If you don’t have these on already, I would suggest downloading them and keeping them now. More information on this can be found here . ...

Here are a few more DOS pings from last night, I think these are poor souls who don’t know they have infected machines (or lets hope so). There is one (218.201.43.148) from China belonging to someone called Ming Chen in Chongqing, might have to drop his/her ISP an email. inetnum: 218.201.40.1 - 218.201.43.254 netname: CQ-CHONGQINGYIDONG country: CN descr: Chong Qing Yi Dong IDC Yong HU descr: 40-43 Duan Qi Yong ...

This is the not the first time this has happened, but in case you were seeing a few of my previous posts, no I am not listening to the same song by Bon Jovi (in a loop), but the media player blogging plug has bugs! It for some reason is stuck on that - does not matter even if I have Media Player even open or not. So its turned off for now, don’t have the time to find a fix. If someone out there knows a solution let me know. (BTW, I am running Media Player 10). ...

Well if you wondered what happens in a club, then check out this video (2.51mb) . :)

More news on Google, they have released two new extensions for Firefox, one is called Google Safe Browsing which detects any phishing and spoofing sites, and the other is for Blogger Web Comments - so you can see what others are saying about the page you are on, and even blog directly to your blog (running on blogger of course). ...

Cross posting from All about Interop ; System.Transactions has two timeout values that you can specify in configuration files. The default timeout for System.Transactions transactions is 1 minute. You can set it in either app config, web config, or machine config. (You can also set the timeout for a particular transaction programmatically within the application, by using one of the appropriate constructors for TransactionScope or CommittableTransaction). Setting the default timeout to 30 seconds in config code looks like the following. ...

You might have heard and seen this already, but GMail has has a few updates, now it supports RSS feeds and you can get it on your mobile/cell phone. Check out details here . [Listening to: I Am - Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day (03:54)]

If anyone knows I would love to know what the reasoning was behind calling the Indigo (now WCF) namespace as System.ServiceModel ? Why Model, why not just Service (though it might get confusing with the Windows Services), or something else? To me its not very intuitive, I am use to it now, so its almost like second nature, but would still be good to know why. ...

If you are still in the market to build you MCE, ExtremeTech has an article talking about the best case, powersupply, etc. to pick for the job. You can check out my MCE configuration here. [Listening to: I Am - Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day (03:54)] ...

If you have been following my Wireless blues here , you would know its been 48 hours (or so) and the new Wireless router is still going strong (touch wood) without any issues so far. This is what I had in the log so far (which is quite interesting when compared to Linksys as if I did have a similar log internally then I do not know how to get to it). ...

BBC is reporting that the copy protection on the XBOX 360 has been cracked by a group called the Team PI Coders. It is not quite at the stage where its usable, but this is definitely the starting point. Today you can get just some of the information, and cannot run the dumps, but the day you can, then it might be worthwhile investing on one. :) My biggest rant is the fact that I have a US XBOX, why can’t I play those games in a UK XBOX? ...

Say you want to test mathematical model of your friendly neighbouring snail, how do you test it? Why, with a robo snail of course! :)

This is not new, but I recently stumbled on it. If you are developing or wanting to develop for bluetooth developing for Bluetooth technology (exposing Bluetooth services, enumerating devices or services, and connecting to services) the Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology program provides a Win32 API Wrapper that developers can expose in Visual Studio .NET or the .NET Compact Framework. The class library wrapper provided helps make development for Bluetooth Technology faster and easier by reducing the lines of code necessary to develop for Bluetooth Technology from hundreds to just a few and the components include: ...

Check out how Google managed things a few years ago. Thanks to Eli for the link. :)

If you recall my previous posts about Wireless blues I have been having I did decide to get the Belkin Pre-N device. Well after a order screw up with Amazon where they delivered someone else order to me (with the correct address), I did finally get the device delivered yesterday and set it up last night. First impressions have been good so far; it seems to be working good although its only been 8 odd hours, but atleast it seems to be promising. I’ll post back here with an update this weekend - by then I would have ti up and running for about a week and can give some real world feedback. For those curious, I did upgrade the Firmware with the latest on their Web Site, and I am using only 802.11g devices to connect to this. ...

Now this is something cool that almost everyone will find very handy. If you are a developer, engineer, architect or just an enthusiast and want to play around with a few different configurations, the best way to do that is using a Virtual Machine. So if you got a hold of some beta’s or demo VM and to use it till now you had to have a licence for something along the lines of Virtual PC or VMWare Workstation. Not any more! With VMware Player , you can “play” (i.e. run) those virtual machines without buying a licence. You cannot create virtual machines using this, but you can open them and run them - perfect for the handsouts from the PDC you have been attending. Not to mention, VMware can also read your Virtual PC images, how sweet it that? So, whats your excuse for not getting this? If you are interested you can compare the various versions here and see how they stack up. ...

eWeek has an interview with Don Box , where he talks about what is next from Microsoft in terms of the next-gen apps. He talks about what is most interesting in his space, between Indigo, WWF, LINQ, etc. Also what you should think of as an Enterprise Architect when designing your contracts - WSDL-First or Contract-First.