Author: Steve Novoselac

Director of Digital Technology @TrekBikes, Father, Musician, Cyclist

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Geeky/Programming Product Reviews

ScaleOut StateServer

ScaleOut Software has a product to manage sessions on a web farm. I have tried this product and have had nothing but issues. I did actually end up getting it working once, but it turns out, even when it does work correctly, it gives your network problems

It seems that the fix for any issue is “You arent running the latest version” – which might be true, but many times, we would be running version 1.3.2 for example that we downloaded two days ago, and then they release 1.3.2.1 the day after we downloaded 1.3.2 – this is a cop out in saying that its on our end, when in reality it is just buggy software that has releases every other day to fix bugs. I dont know if there is any other competing product in the market right now though, so they kind of have it locked. You can use Microsoft’s ASP.Net Session provider, but that is limited when in a farm scenario. Using MSSQL for your sessions has performance issues. I have heard that ex-microsofties tell people to just roll their own, but that seems too much, especially in a small shop. Hopefully ScaleOut gets more stable, because it could be a good product, if it just didn’t cause issues 🙂

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Random

Lawn Mower Races


Lawn Mower Races

Originally uploaded by ScaleOvenStove.

Nothing better to do on a rainy Iron Range afternoon. There were three lawn mowers in this race, I think I could have walked faster around the track.

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Random

Email Nice – Hyperlinks

I found out today Im guilty. Guilty of sending emails where my hyperlinks I paste inside them arent actually hyperlinks, so that the user getting the email has to copy and paste them into their browser. What a PITA if you ask me. I see that you actually have to hit ENTER after pasting a url for the autoformat to work correctly. I looked a little bit for a macro or add-in that would auto check for hyperlinks that weren’t actually “hyper” before sending an email, but couldn’t find one easily. Maybe I will look into VS2005 for Office and just create a little add-in. Or I suppose I could just hit ENTER 🙂

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Geeky/Programming

Vista Beta 2

Well, tonight I took the plunge and installed Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Dell PC at home. I am liking it so far. Alot of security alerts. Its always nice to start digging into the new technology as soon as you can. I have tried a few programs and found they don’t work, you would think that software makers would be starting to test and have updates, etc. Hopefully by the time of launch we will see more app compatability, etc. It is a memory hog (runs at 800 mb constant), but I guess that is expected with the video/display changes (Aero). I’m actually going to try to use IE7 and see how well it works, instead of Firefox, until I can’t stand it anymore. Anyone know of any cool tricks in Vista that arent there in XP?

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Product Reviews

Veign Pixeur Tool

ok, im blogging this because on every pc I install, I always install this tool but can never find the homepage. This is the coolest little color picker for windows, I use it when I want to hack colors 🙂
http://www.veign.com/download_app.asp?app=107

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Life Product Reviews

Ipod – Day 2

well, I finally got all my music copied over. I also figured out, that if you want to charge your ipod and listen to music at the same time (without itunes installed) – in my computer, find your Ipod, and eject. Then you can listen to music while it charges – cool 🙂

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Life Product Reviews

Ipod

At work, I moved to a tempoary building until construction on our new building is completed, and we are running over a wifi bridge. Since I can’t stream music anymore, I needed to get something – so i picked up a 60 GB ipod. Im not using Itunes though, using MediaMonkey instead, didnt even have to install Itunes – pretty slick. Its a video ipod, so i will have to check that out, and since I have roughly over 40 GB of music, I have some room to spare, for now 🙂

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Life

Sold!

Well, I sold pocketblogger.net this weekend. I had a good offer, and I took the guy up on it. I havent done much with the site in a while, but it was still getting good traffic, etc. I still have the program/code (I didnt sell that, just the domain and website currently there) – so i might just create a subdomain on stevienova – pb.stevienova.com or something, we’ll see 🙂

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Life

At The Lake


At The Lake

Originally uploaded by ScaleOvenStove.

Watching the sun go down at the lake…

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Geeky/Programming

Office 2007 Beta 2

I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 – seems like some things are not there, but expected for a beta. The new categorizations are cool, but the search folder for them doesnt work. Also, RSS Feeds folder is cool, but my opml from newsgator online wont import, dont know why either. Dug through the help, but didnt find anything that said why it might not insert…but I am liking it so far..