October 28, 2009
card magnetic stripe?
curiously enough, i discovered the magstripe on a credit card does not encode or obfuscate data (more than being a magnetic field with the equivalent of a bar code that is)... i just assumed it did. when you think about it, this is really the equivalent of peering at the front of the card --that's what you "see". i guess this makes sense. but i've also realized, card information is more vunerable than i hoped.
there are a number of well known, publish standards and specs.
this is the format i got scanning one of my cards:
;4111111111111111=1201=LAST/FIRST
read more...October 20, 2009
IE8 'IE7' compatibility mode
you can tell IE8 to emulate IE7, if for some reason your page isn't rendering properly in the new brower. add this tag to the master page in your project to cover the whole site in one step.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
October 13, 2009
reporting services sql server install error
When you go to (re) install sql server, you may get this error if you re-use the same instance name since the Reporting Services user data files are not deleted during uninstall and may contain valued user data.
Here's the message: Rule Reporting Services Catalog Temporary Database File Existence failed.
"The Reporting Services catalog temporary database file exists. Select a Reporting Services files-only mode installation."
October 02, 2009
how to suspend norton rtvscan.exe process
stop the norton (synamtic) antivius service.