HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod

I was tasked with pulling some music of a IPod. So with help of google, I found a post on exactly what I was looking for at Phillip Torrone's post :HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod. His post lead me to the site http://www.ephpod.com/. So, I installed this little program and from what I can tell, it works pretty good. I like the fact that if you "download" a song from your ipod it will rename it to a meaningful name instead of the garbage name iTunes comes up with.

So give it a try and let me know what you think.

Proof we are still human and don't have a clue.

For decades we have been told that we are causing Global Warming. A former V.P. even won a Nobel Prize for a documentary on Global Warming. Now we find out that we might be headed to an Ice Age. So, which is it? Are we creating too many "greenhouse" gases causing the Global Warming or is the Earth cooling off inspite our gases?

ABC reported this week the claim that we are heading to an ice age is upsetting some scientists (http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2225980.htm). The site Not by Fire but by Ice says that this cooling Nearly wipes out 100 Years of Global Warming. I'm sure that former V.P. guy has a list of his own to prove global warming. Michael Asher wrote an article about "Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling". Even Lorne Gunter of the National Post says "Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age".

I didn't think that humans could kill the earth. How self absorbed are we that we think we have the power to destroy what God created? Do you remember the oil fires of 1991? The smoke the was to altered weather patterns across Asia and it would take years for the fires to put out, but they the weather never changed and they put out the fires in eight months.

We are too worried about what we are doing to earth, that our actions are causing ill affects on the poorer countries. I will rant about how our ethanol production is starving the world later.

Future of computing?

As I type this from my 8 year old laptop, used solely for accessing the internet. I came across something this evening make good sense to me nivio.com. Nivio brings the power of a desktop to the internet. Think about it... Going to a friends house, the locale library, a kiosk at the mall and accessing you computer and not having to worry about opening network ports, viruses or hackers getting into you network. Just go online anywhere and access your desktop. They provide most of the everyday applications like Microsoft Office, IMs and image editing for about $5 per month. Not bad when you think about the price of Microsoft Office. That would pay for several years of this service. This would be a rebirth of the dumb terminal. Remember those? With the speed of the internet and public computers showing up everywhere, like McDonald's, this could be the future of computing for the typical user.

.Net Deployment Error clr02r3

I have been fighting this problem for about 4 days. We built a ClickOnce .Net application using the SCSF/CAB model. We moved the complete development from Visual Studio 2005 / .Net 2.0 to Visual Studio 2008 / .Net 3.5. The application was installed via the ClickOnce deployment on some Tester's PCs. We had no issue under VS2005 but ran into this error using VS2008 for deployment.

Error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5000
Date: 4/7/2008
Time: 4:40:51 PM
User: N/A
Computer: L0008068
Description:
EventType clr20r3,
P1 integratedmodules.exe,
P2 1.0.0.0, P3 47fa723c,
P4 system.configuration,
P5 2.0.0.0, P6 471ebf00,
P7 496, P8 441,
P9 ioibmurhynrxkw0zxkyrvfn0boyyufow, P10 NIL.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 63 00 6c 00 72 00 32 00 c.l.r.2.
0008: 30 00 72 00 33 00 2c 00 0.r.3.,.
0010: 20 00 69 00 6e 00 74 00 .i.n.t.
0018: 65 00 67 00 72 00 61 00 e.g.r.a.
0020: 74 00 65 00 64 00 6d 00 t.e.d.m.
0028: 6f 00 64 00 75 00 6c 00 o.d.u.l.
0030: 65 00 73 00 2e 00 65 00 e.s...e.
0038: 78 00 65 00 2c 00 20 00 x.e.,. .
0040: 31 00 2e 00 30 00 2e 00 1...0...
0048: 30 00 2e 00 30 00 2c 00 0...0.,.
0050: 20 00 34 00 37 00 66 00 .4.7.f.
0058: 61 00 37 00 32 00 33 00 a.7.2.3.
0060: 63 00 2c 00 20 00 73 00 c.,. .s.
0068: 79 00 73 00 74 00 65 00 y.s.t.e.
0070: 6d 00 2e 00 63 00 6f 00 m...c.o.
0078: 6e 00 66 00 69 00 67 00 n.f.i.g.
0080: 75 00 72 00 61 00 74 00 u.r.a.t.
0088: 69 00 6f 00 6e 00 2c 00 i.o.n.,.
0090: 20 00 32 00 2e 00 30 00 .2...0.
0098: 2e 00 30 00 2e 00 30 00 ..0...0.
00a0: 2c 00 20 00 34 00 37 00 ,. .4.7.
00a8: 31 00 65 00 62 00 66 00 1.e.b.f.
00b0: 30 00 30 00 2c 00 20 00 0.0.,. .
00b8: 34 00 39 00 36 00 2c 00 4.9.6.,.
00c0: 20 00 34 00 34 00 31 00 .4.4.1.
00c8: 2c 00 20 00 69 00 6f 00 ,. .i.o.
00d0: 69 00 62 00 6d 00 75 00 i.b.m.u.
00d8: 72 00 68 00 79 00 6e 00 r.h.y.n.
00e0: 72 00 78 00 6b 00 77 00 r.x.k.w.
00e8: 30 00 7a 00 78 00 6b 00 0.z.x.k.
00f0: 79 00 72 00 76 00 66 00 y.r.v.f.
00f8: 6e 00 30 00 62 00 6f 00 n.0.b.o.
0100: 79 00 79 00 75 00 66 00 y.y.u.f.
0108: 6f 00 77 00 20 00 4e 00 o.w. .N.
0110: 49 00 4c 00 0d 00 0a 00 I.L.....

This made no sence because it was intermitent and did not behave the same for different users on the same machine. After hours and hours of research and various deployment configuration attempts. I decided to revert to VS2005 deployment and it worked! The developed code was still in .Net 3.5 but deployed with VS2005. This might be an issue with how VS2008 publishes a ClickOnce application, maybe the signing of the app.config? It turns out that the other group, who had no problems, had not switched to VS2008 deployment yet.