Technology

Today I got a real mind-bender of a problem. PowerPoint 2010 was refusing to print slides. After sending the print job to the printer, it would just sit there doing nothing. Giving up, I exited out of PowerPoint and got this error message:

PowerPoint is currently printing. Quitting will cancel all pending print jobs.

Really... it doesn't appear to be printing from my end! As it turns out, there are two workarounds:

Workaround #1 - Uncheck "Print Comments and Ink Markup"

This morning I got a call from an Administrative Assistant about a new Office 2010 document not working on our intranet web site. It was giving her the 404 File not Found Error. After confirming the URL of the file was correct, it dawned on me that IIS has locked down the MIME types. We recently upgraded our computers from Office 2000 to Office 2010, so that means new file extensions are in effect: docx, xlsx, pptx, etc.

Here's how to fix the problem in Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS):
1. Open your IIS Manager.
2. Right click on Web Sites.
3. Choose Properties

Part 2 of an 11-part review of Drupal 6 Themes. by Ric Shreves

I am just blown away by how many Drupal 6 books have hit the market this year. Four books have already hit the market this year, four more are on the way, and at least four more are due in early 2009. Keep them coming!

I am just blown away by how many Drupal 6 books have hit the market this year. Four books have already hit the market this year, four more are on the way, and at least four more are due in early 2009. Keep 'em coming!

I've been writing a quoting generating web application for .NET 2.0. This application uses Crystal Reports XI to generate a printer friendly quote to PDF using the ReportDocument.ExportToDisk method. That PDF gets emailed to a list of people. The application seemed to be working great until today. I was writing some code to delete those PDF files and I got this error: The process cannot access the file [filename] because it is being used by another process.