WebGuru’s Blog about Digital Life

The problem with Microsoft VSS and Copy web in Visual Studio .net

WebGuru — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:35:24 +0000

When I am using the Copy Web command in the Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2005 to copy asp.net files from the local to the remote server, sometime I got error saying “Access denied” (BTW, to see the Error Log, you will have to scroll down and click the Log… button which might be invisible if [...]

How to set the DefaultButton in a Page Based on ASP.NET Master Page

WebGuru — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:51:08 +0000

Challenges: As I mentioned in my previous post, I fixed the issue of hitting enter key on an ASP.NET page with a single textbox and submit button. But now new issue occurred: I could not use the Enter key on other button web controls. Whenever I hit the Enter key in the web form, the onClick [...]

How to fire onClick event with hitting Enter in ASP.NET forms

WebGuru — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:50:21 +0000

Challenge: I have a search box in every asp.net web page with one text box and one submit button. When the visitor clicks the submit button, he will be re-directed to a search result web page since the onClick event is fired on that submit button. But when the visitor finishes his typing and simply hits [...]

How to use XML Sitemap plug-in with WordPress MU

WebGuru — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:54:14 +0000

A couple months ago, I wrote a blog post in my Chinese blog about my own experience of configuring XML SiteMap plugin in the WordPress MU. It turned out that a lot of MU owners had the same problem before. So I decided to re-write it in English and share with you here. I [...]

How to export and import MySql database

WebGuru — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:54:37 +0000

I have tried to re-configure the old web site log analyst tools - LiveStats XSP 6.2 for a long, long time. Finally I decided to wipe all of them and re-install again. To be safe, I have to back-up all MySql data (installed by LiveStats) first. Since the server is a Windows 2000, and [...]

How to resolve the Outlook Form issues

WebGuru — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:51:48 +0000

Issues: Today I got complains from one of my co-workers saying he could not open the Leave Request Outlook form, which designed by me a long while ago and put in the Oragnization Form library. Solutions: Even I did not see the error messages, but I provide the following trouble shoot steps I normally took to trouble shoot [...]

How to protect your online passwords, a lesson from Sarah Palin

WebGuru — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:49:11 +0000

In recent news the Internet is talking about how a college guy hacked Sarah Palin, 2008 USA vice president candidate, personal Yahoo email account. Actually there was no technical scripting or coding involved in this hack issue. What the “hacker” did was to use Yahoo’s password recovery function by answering 3 security questions. For [...]

Hack the Wi-Fi network of Atlanta Airport is the old news

WebGuru — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:30:15 +0000

Sometimes it is very funny to see how the Internet work. The Internet is great with its powerful penetration degrees, it can reach to anyone, anywhere and anytime. That is why we are happy to get all these unlimited information we need from the Internet. But if we did not pay attention to the [...]

Microsoft Commercial TV ads Bill with Seinfeld 1 and 2

WebGuru — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:12:17 +0000

Not from TV, but I viewed these Commercials from TechCrunch Website. Although there were some “do not understands” on these TV commercials, but I believe Microsoft Public Relation and their hired ads. talents. Let us wait and see what the next serials of these commercials. And most of important part, both of Bill Gates [...]

How to find out IP addresses of others through emails and instant messengers

WebGuru — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:47:57 +0000

Today one of my friends asked my helps on tracing or finding out another people’s IP address. He indicated this guy(s) had his Yahoo! Messenger account and email address from some ways, then started to harass him in instant messages and emails with nasty words and graphics. My friend tried to know who this [...]

New Google Browser Chrome Installed (with pictures)

WebGuru — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:10:36 +0000

Can not resist the media teasing about the new browser from Google - Chrome. Here is the installation I conducted today. First of first, you need to download it from Google Chrome website which is hard for the public to find from its main site or the link from Google’s main page. The link is http://www.google.com/chrome And [...]

Is the Read-Only attribute on OS Oracle data file a bug for Oracle 10g?

WebGuru — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:19:54 +0000

In today’s Oracle 10g training, we were asked to do a exercise on tablespace. I needed to make a tablespace Read Only and Read Write. The syntax was simple, just “ALTER TABLESPACE tbs READ ONLY (READ WRITE”. But while I was playing around, I thought what would happen on the data file after I [...]

How to create email distribute list: import contacts into Outlook contacts easily

WebGuru — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:08:42 +0000

I need to post a serial how-to in Outlook for some of my clients. This one is part of “how to create email distribute list” and copy & paste from this website. If you have e-mail addresses or other contact information in a program and want to import the data into Microsoft Outlook, follow the [...]

How to watch Beijing Olympics Games live overseas online

WebGuru — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:51:07 +0000

Since only NBC has the exclusive authorization to broadcast all Olympics 2008 games in America, and it only shows American team games at evening prime times. It is very hard to watch some interesting games at real time if they do not have American team participation and not take part in American prime time. I [...]

How to display 0 in conditional [group by] report in Count() SQL Query

WebGuru — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:40:54 +0000

Challenge:Let me assume this: we have two tables, one is Regions table with all region information (East, West, etc. ) and we have another table with Sales information. Now, we need to display a report with region information and how many sales conducted in each region with greater than $1000 value in each sale. [...]