I need a better response from Microsoft

In their Connect web site I posted this message:

Installed the SuperPreview and try to get my blog to see how it would look in the different browsers as I have been comparing browsers for several javascript libraries. 

This message showed up. "Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program". I was having the Windows Task Manager and was looking at the Performance and did not notice even a tiny blip. I was trying to bring up my blog at: http://hodentek.blogspot.com, a relatively small blog


They answered me by a reply which just said it is fixed.


I want to know how. I took my time to point out and, Microsoft should have the courtesy to point out to me how it was fixed. Is it really?

I joined the flock yesterday

After resisting for quite a while, I finally succumbed and joined the Twitter flock this week. I tweet at
http://twitter.com/subbagiri

Well, my forefathers hailed from 'Subbagiri' which is not too far from Bangalore. Presently it is a little hamlet with a brook and mango trees. Lots of tweeting birds you can find. It is altogether a pleasant place.

BTW, Twitter has its own API which you can use to work with Twitter. I have written an article to 'SSWUG.org' on authoring SSRS reports with Twitter API. I will post,  if and when it gets published.

Why Hodentek?

It was boom time in silicon valley - days of dotcom. Anything sounding -tek was good. So I decided on Hodentek.

But Why Hoden?

Denki Hoden stands for electrical discharge in Japanaese. I worked the better part of my life in electrical discharges and so my fascination continues. Well, I have a fixation on electrical discharges atmospheric or otherwise. The random path chosen by the atmospheric discharge is spectacular and breathtakingly beautiful.

Recently I copied a part of the lighting photo from a web site to include it in my twitter page,

http://twitter.com/subbagiri

 

I therefore want to acknowledge that. If you are inclined to see more lighting pictures you may go to this link from which I copied. There are many other sites but you need to register, pay etc.

XML Parsing in Firefox, IE 8.0 and Google Chrome

Looks like Firefox gives a more friendly parsing error information than IE 8.0. However, the error information given by IE 8.0 is still good and moreover it will display the XML up to the point the error occured where as Firefox will not show anything untill the whole XML is compliant.  Google Chrome displays the text (innerText!) in the xml pointing to the first error.

For the same error compare the error information from these browsers.

Firefox

IE 8.0

G_Chrome

Migrating from SQL Server 2008 to Postgres on EnterpriseDB

With many database vendor products in the market and data intensive applications using them, it is often required to port the application to use the data or, migrate the data so that the application can use it. Migration of data is therefore one of the realities of the IT Industry. Some of the author's previous articles on migration can be found at this link.

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