Rob Garrett - Blogs

December 2006 - Posts

• Vista, Firefox 2, Slow Network

  I had recently been experiencing a frustrating problem with timeout errors when connecting to some web sites (my blog for instance) within Firefox 2.0 on my IBM Lenovo Thinkpad (X60), running Vista RTM. For the last couple of weeks I have been trawling Read More... Posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 5:16 PM by Rob Garrett | 52 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista Attachment(s): /blogs/downloads/Tcp1323Opts.zip

• Encrypt/Decrypt Web.config Sections

  Encryption of sections in my web.config file is a task I am constantly looking up on the Internet, so I thought I'd blog it here. -- Generic form for encrypting the Web.config file for a particular website... aspnet_regiis.exe -pef section physical_directory Read More... Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:12 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Development

• Bose TriPort Around-Ear Headphones

  I finally decided to ditch my Sennheiser phones today on account of a malfunctioning jack, which meant I could only get sound from one ear unless I contorted my body in a strange angle and held the wire in the air in the direction of the wind. So I popped Read More... Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 1:47 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Music, Electronics

• Linked In

  I've recently updated my profile on Linked-In . For those of you unfamiliar with this service, it is about connecting up with fellow peers and colleagues from past and current work positions. If you know me, or have known me then why not check out my Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:27 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Employment