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I upgraded the BIOS firmware on my Dell Optiplex 760.  I was trying to get two video cards to work and hoped a firmware upgrade would help.

One of the BIOS options is HDD Acoustic Support, which changes how the drive operates.  There are four modes: Bypass, Quiet, Suggested, Performance.  I had mine on Performance.

I read the changelog for the firmware upgrade, and noticed that one of the "enhancements" is removal of HDD Acoustic Support.  After installing this update, my computer starting making a persistent high-pitch noise.  Not terribily loud, but very annoying.  I figured that I might have messed up the power supply (the usual culprit for high-pitch whines), or unseated the video card.

After a bunch of research I got to thinking that maybe the sound was coming from the hard drive, and that this acoustic support removal was the cause.  So, I reinstalled the A05 version of the BIOS firmware, and the problem went away.  Whew.

Requires every single citizen to have health insurance.  Yeah, that is Constitutional.

What happens when an illegal immigrant needs healthcare?  He will not have been paying into the system, yet will still get full coverage.

Also, taxes start this year, but benefits won't start until 2014.  In addition, unless something big changes in my life, I won't benefit  at all anyway because I already have health insurance.  Just more taxes.

This law opens a whole new set of campaign promises, like: Don't think you are getting enough benefits?  Vote for me and I will increase heathcare spending.

Or, "Congressman John Doe voted against an increase in healthcare spending, he wants you to die."

We have already heard these kinds of statements in relation to Social Security and Medicare.  Now we will hear them for "general" Healthcare.

I would rather have a greedy businessman in charge of my health insurance rather than a greedy/incompetent bureaucrat (who can use the police power of the state to enforce his will... read: IRS).

Fourth Try and Fifth Try have been posted to http://drop.io/UntitledChetZemaProject.

Do not bother trying to create a class that inherits from System.Web.UI.UserControl and put it in a class library.  The .NET Framework compile-time generates code to render the child controls.  You don't get this compile-time generation unless your assembly is a website.

You could go though an manually write when would have been generated, but this gets complicated as you add more controls.

In II6, and in II7 "classic mode", httpModules are defined under:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <httpModules>

However, in II7 "integrated mode" (the default mode), they are defined under:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <modules>

Now, remember that Vista, Windows 2008, and Windows 7 come with IIS7, while XP and Windows 2003 come with IIS6.  This means that if you are developing a website on a machine with one version, and you deploy it to a machine with a different version, you will get errors saying that the module was not specified in the web.config file.

Best practice is to always define the module in both places so it will continue to work no matter what version of IIS is being used.

Some modules are nice enough to indicate, in an exception, exactly what you need to specify in the web.config file.  However, the particular module that I was working on was older and didn't remind you to specify the module in the IIS7-specific section.

I cannot believe it has been three months since he was born.  He likes to "talk" and look around.  He can watch me walk around the room.  When we open up his swaddling, he "pops" open (he stretches his arms and legs out like an X).

He only has an inch or so left before he is too big for his bassinet.  However, we have been putting him upstairs in his crib for many of his naps, this should make the transition easier.

He pretty much refuses to eat from a bottle.  We can get an ounce in him if we are lucky (he should eat something closer to 5-6oz during a feeding).

He loves "Itsy, Bitsy, Spider", "Bears, Bears, They Got No Cares" (Andrew Peterson), and "Little Bunny Foofoo".

He is pretty much the cutest baby I have ever seen.

I am trying out Linux Multimedia Studio.  I made some techno samples.  If you want to hear them, go to http://drop.io/UntitledChetZemaProject.