If you are reinstalling Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express on a server running ASP.NET and Plesk, when you try to view an ASP.NET web page, you might see a message like the following:

Cannot open database "TellUWhen" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'MIGHTYMOUSE\IWAM_plesk(default)'. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: Syste.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "TellUWhen" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'MIGHTYMOUSE\IWAM_plesk(default)'. The basic solution to the problem is to make sure that the specified user name (e.g. ASPNET or IWAM_plesk(default)) is a member of the SQLServer2005MSSQLUser$server$SQLExpress group. Here are the specific steps to do this for the user "" on "":

Right-click "My Computer" and choose "Manage". ...

There's a new phenomenon that catching on like wildfire among my teenagers and twenty-somethings: Guitar Hero. It's a game for the Nintendo Wii where you play "guitar" along with a classic rock tune. The more right notes you hit, the more the audience loves you. Here's Sarah laying down her tasty licks:

Of course, then there's her on-screen personna:

There's always a precious moment each fall here in New England. The moment when you look out the window and your body lights up and says "It's SNOWING!" Here's what that moment looked like this year:

...Lay around in my pajamas?

Thanks for the birthday presents, Mom!

I finally got my HP PhotoSmart 7350 to work with my Mac iBook G4 running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) (after nearly two years of banging my head against the wall trying to get the standard HP driver to work in any fashion). Here's how:

1. Go to The Linux Foundation OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs drivers page.
2. Download and install from that page (in this order): ESP Ghostscript, Foomatic-RIP and finally the hpijs package.
3. Go to the Mac Printer Setup Utility (in Applications/Utilities) and add your printer (e.g. "HP PhotoSmart 7350 Foomatic/hpijs" under "HP").

I was even able to get this working with a Linksys WPS58G wireless-G print server by setting up an "IP Printer"  with Protocol set to  "HP Jet Direct - Socket" ,  Address to the IP address of the print server (e.g. 192.168.20.200).

I hope this may help someone else who is struggling with this.

As of DotNetNuke (DNN) 4.7, the RSS News Feed module doesn't display embedded HTML in the Description field because the default transform (RSS91.xsl) in the "DesktopModules\News" folder. The solution is basically to change:

to:

You could edit this file directly so it would apply to all news feeds you put on your system. However, if you want to control which feeds are allowed to inject arbitrary HTML into your site, then the "clean" way to do this (without changing the DNN installation itself) is to:

Make a copy of the default RSS91.xsl on your local system. Make the change shown above (and any other formatting changes you might want). Upload this file into your DotNetNuke files. (I put mine in a "Transforms" folder.) Reference this file in the Settings for your News module in the News Feed Style Sheet section. ...

2007 was definitely the "Year of the Card" as far as my birthday is concerned. Check it out...

Describes how to display a clock on a web page using a minimum of JavaScript code.