If you go to http://thepiratebay.org/ you can see the on the main banner of the page the invitation to vote for The Pirates Party. At least that’s what I see with Dutch IP-address, I’m not sure what people in other countries see. Yes, there is a official political party in The Netherlands – Piratenpartij. They’re [...]
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expression conditions in MS CRM API
May 26th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
MS CRM API is a very nice thing, unfortunately for getting structured data from and to the CRM database. Unfortunately there is no possibility just to write a query in SQL and get the results from it. Instead of this you have to create the whole object structure to represent the SQL. For example, lets [...]
i-phone as bicycling tracker
Last month I occasionally became an i-phone 3G owner. I find it a very nice gadget, with a lot of useful features. The most important is, of course - the Wooden Labyrinth. This one is really the reason the i-phone is so popular! Also I was looking for other applications for a new generation pocket [...]
Exchange 2007 and IPv6
May 11th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
I just spend 1.5 days trying to understand why I can not install a fresh Exchange 2007 SP1 on fresh Windows 2008 R2 Server. Normally (normally) such Microsoft installations are going OK. If you don’t touch anything. After the installation of some services it started to give a lot of strange error message. Aparently the [...]
Windows update vicious cycle
When I was student, we started to learn programming. We didn’t have much computers available to us in 1993, so we had to write small programs in Pascal on paper (it doesn’t say anyting about the quality of education. No, I think I’ve got a great engineering education). Our first programming professor was an excentric person. [...]
Trying to send emails via CRM API
May 4th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
It looks like MS CRM 4.0 API doesn’t allow you to try to send an email. You can create an email, of course, like this: email ResellerEmail = new email(); //filling dozens of parameters Guid emailID = service.Create(ResellerEmail); This only creates an email in the database, but not actually sending anything. In order to send [...]
chrome – browser made for content
January 10th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Normally I hate installing software on my computer, if it’s not really needed. Any software you install is one more spot on your computer (your work tool). like, for example, I know Windows Explorer is not the best File Manager, but I would hate to install Total Commander or Far. At least Misrosoft is under preassure [...]
Free Anti-Viruses Industry
October 3rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in IT Security, Information Technologies, eCommerce | View Comments
A couple of days ago Microsoft came with a new free Anti-Virus product – Microsoft Security Essentials I will not comment on Microsoft ability to create security products, my opinion could be based of course. I’d like to write a bit about the whole idea of those Free Anti-Virus. Currently it’s not just a GNU-like [...]
Activation codes vs serial numbers
What is the difference between an activation code and a serial number. The biggest one is: One of them costs money and could be a product for your e-shop and another doesn’t cost anything. Activation codes are secret numbers, which are used to activate some software. Normally it happens online. The generation of activation codes [...]
3 Steps in website management
August 12th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Some time ago I’ve written that webmaster is an obsolete profession. For any website bigger that 5 pages there is no persons who can manage everything – from content to software installation. Even if we’re taking about information website without e-commerce or huge database, there are still several steps, which one needs to follow in [...]
