Scott Elkin

Author: Scott

  • System of a Down

    I have mentioned System's newest album Mezmerize before, but I was listening to it in the car and had some revelations. If you haven't heard System before, the best way I can describe them is “frantic bitch slaps”. I say this seriously, because their music will go from a more soothing, normal melody to a…

  • Community Server uses some ASP.NET 2.0

    Pretty cool those guys are, thinking ahead and all. I just noticed that my CS 1.0 database has all (or near all, not sure) the tables and stored procedures that get installed for ASP.NET 2.0 membership, profiles, role management and personalization. To get it in your database, assuming you have the 2.0 framework installed is…

  • Three CD Rule

    A rule I devised (yeah, I’m real smart…) that I continue to apply every day is the “Three CD Rule”. Simply put, (like there is anything hard to understand here) you must listen to a CD 3 times before you can really render an opinion. This is not to invalidate you if you hate an…

  • Yahoo Music Engine

    I have been really enjoying the Yahoo Music Engine, along with the Y! Unlimited access. With it, you can download an unlimited number of tracks and abuse them until you stop paying the monthly fee. It is exactly what Napster offers, but at 1/3 the price. You can pay $4.99 per month if you sign…

  • Print PDF Documents That Disable Printing

    I received a question of how to print a PDF that does not allow you to print it. This worked for me: Download and install Ghostscript. Download, install and run GSView. Open GSView and open the PDF document you can’t print. File –> Print like you normally would.

  • How many movies have you seen this year?

    This question was posed on Hacking Netflix because Becky just blogged how she has watched 200 already this year. My count so far was 96. In comparison, I only watch about 3 shows on TV a week totalling about 2.5 hrs on TiVo, and I have been to the theater about 3 times. That would…

  • E3 and the XBox 360

    Wow, information overload. The music, the videos, the crowds…holy toledo. I had to park almost a mile away from the Convention Center. I must say that the standout for me was the XBox 360. They had a bunch of 42″ Plasmas showing some great looking games coming out. Call of Duty 2 was just sick.…

  • Fun with #region

    I am not sure if I did this on accident, or my intern did it, but I found this in my code: #region Constructors//code here #endregion Constructors I was not aware you can put a tag after #endregion. Kind of nice to clearly delineate long regions. Not that it really matters, but Visual Studio allows…

  • Learning C# over VB.NET

    I just finished writing a long 'ol email to a friend who wants to do a project in VB.NET since his background is in legacy ASP. Although my points have been illustrated by many over and over, I thought I would post what I wrote in the hopes others can add to my list. I…

  • ITunes RSS Generator

    Pretty nifty…