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November 2005 - Posts

Twinstar and ASP.NET 2.0 Providers

It was beautiful here in East Tennessee today--50 F and only light winds--so I took time off at lunch to fly my newest airplane: a twin-engine ARF called the Twinstar . It's 50“ long and has a 56” wingspan. It's powered by a pair of O.S. 25FX Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:31 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Where Not to Stand

Here's a wonderful short video of a scale model 747 taking off and landing --and a sterling example of why spectators at R/C events should carefully choose their vantage point. Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 1:25 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Fixing a Date Formatting Bug in ASP.NET 2.0

Sometime between beta 2 and beta 3, a bug crept into ASP.NET 2.0's BoundField class that prevents date formatting from working. In the following declaration, the “{0:d”} is ignored: The bug was slated to be fixed in the RTM release, but alas, Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:20 PM by jprosise | 7 Comments
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Was 9/11 an Inside Job?

I was taking a break from writing this morning and googling the Web for articles on centers-of-lift and centers-of-gravity in airplanes when I came across a thought-provoking piece that has nothing at all to do with airplane design. It argues that the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:01 PM by jprosise | 11 Comments
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The Ultimate R/C Model?

Check out these photos of an R/C model of the new Airbus 580. To say it's huge is an understatement! Better yet, check out this video of it flying. I'm trying to find information about the builder, but so far I've had no luck. Those are real gas turbine Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:44 AM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Reader Needs Hacking Help

Readers submit some great e-mails to my Wicked Code column in MSDN Magazine , but every now and then I get one that makes me wonder whether to laugh or cry. Here's one that arrived today: hi cna u help me how 2 hack on to someones msn acount with out Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:26 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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Launch! (And Why It Sometimes Pays to be a Geek)

I'm in San Francisco for Microsoft's worldwide Whidbey launch event, which took place today. Wintellect built a lot of the content for the launch--the slides and demos that the presenters used--and we were here to make sure everything went smoothly. Rich Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:29 AM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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