February 2008 Entries

Web Design: Make IFRAME percentage height to work in FireFox

I've search for this around, and have tested the following on the latest versions of Opera, Firefox, and Netscape Navigator. I also tested it on IE6 and  IE7. The following seems to be the only way to get height percentage of IFRAME to work across all browsers. html,body { width:100%; height:100%; padding:0px; margin:0px; }   Technorati Tags: IRAME,IFRAME Height,FireFox

MSSQL 2005: Get rid of large/huge Log File

You'll surprise that your 200MB database take 10GB or event more for transaction log file (.LDF). In a on-going project I'm joined, the Log file of a development database take almost 15GB and I don't have that large free disk space to run that database. Then I tried to shrink with MS SQL Management Studio, but not enough, just take size down for 5%. Then need to get rid of the log file. Here is how to do it with MS SQL Management Studio Detach the database from the SQL Server Management Studio. ...

Windows: Hack to got multiple users remote desktop on Windows XP

This procedure is an “hack”: do it at your own risk: STEP 1 Start your Windows in Safe Mode (tap on F8 first of the Windows Loading Splash Screen); click on “My Computer” with right mouse button and choose “Properties”; go to “Remote” tab and uncheck “Allow users to connect remotely to this computer” (if it’s already unchecked, just do nothing); click OK. STEP 2 Go to Start -> Control Panel; open “Administrative Tools” and...

Windows: Using eBoostr to speed up your Windows XP startup

I'm using Dell Laptop for almost profesional computing purposes, except on some heavy tasks which need to be run on more powerful workstation computer. But the Windows startup time will more slowly over going time and new drivers/softwares/components installed. And i found this eBoostr combine with [Windows: Auto-login and then lock your Windows, and speed it up by delay auto-start apps ] as a solution (should be callled hack, ha ha)  to get the Laptop ready to check email in almost 3 minutes eBoostr™ allows you to use an additional drive (flash memory or hard disk) as another layer of performance-boosting cache for...

Windows: Simple Ways To Speed Up Your Windows XP

1. Defrag Disk to Speed Up Access to Data One of the factors that slow the performance of the computer is disk fragmentation. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. To speed up the response time, you should monthly run Disk Defragmenter, a Windows utility that defrags and consolidates fragmented files for quicker computer response. Follow Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter Click the drives you want to defrag and click Analyze ...

Visual Studio.NET: An simple add-on to convert between HTML controls/ASP.NET server controls

Usually, we as web developer received HTML mockups from the HTML designer and have make that fit into the ASP.NET applications, where <input type="text".../> should become <asp:TextBox runas="server". And I always to say sorry to myself about time was wasting during that boring manually replace the HTML controls by corresponding ASP.NET server controls. If you have come across a VS.NET add-in to help me get thing done more efficiently, please let me know ?   Technorati Tags: Visual Studio,ASP.NET,Server Controls,HTML controls,Mockups

Windows: Windows 7 Milestone 1 Screenshots & Video

Someone over the net now start talking about the under developing Windows, called Windows 7, which assumed to be available in 2010. They also provide Video and some screenshots of it Windows 7          Source: Neowin, bink.nu, zhouxiaohu Technorati Tags: Windows 7,Windows Beta,Neowin