Archive for March 8th, 2008
[Music/Video] The Roots – Get Busy
[.NET] Well COM This!
So this past week at work I had to work on a small console application to do something at a clients site.
I was writing it in C# using VS 2008 and had to rely on an old COM accessible DLL that was written in C++ way back when.
And I kept getting a COM error when I tried to make an API call to the DLL.
[Failed --Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID: ]
After spending about a half hour changing VS settings and trying some different things I ended up discovering the solution to the problem within an old blog post here.
Turns out you can’t run a compile for any CPU from Visual Studio when you’re running on an x64 OS platform if you’re going to access an old 32Bit COM file.
Bleh, I should have realized.
The solution was to just change the CPU compile type to x86..and..DISCO!
[PC] OCZ Technogreatness
Replacement OCZ Technologies RAM
So I had reason recently to see just how good OCZ Technologies Lifetime Warranty and RMA processes are.
Back in ‘04 I had upgraded my PC to an Intel 3.2GHz HT processor and 1GB of sweet OCZ Performance RAM.
This RAM had been an amazing performer for me and I had even recently purchased a 2GB kit of the same type which I was able to snag for about half the price I had originally paid for the 1GB kit.
Well so I was having all sorts of BSOD fireworks after getting the 2GB kit installed and was thinking there was some problem with my newly acquired “freedom whiteboard”.
So I used MS Online Crash Analysis to help determine what the dealio… and it turns out it was one of the 512MB sticks from the old 1GB kit.
[sigh]
So I contacted OCZ on a Sunday and the next day first thing I had an email confirming the RMA process.
On their request, I sent off both sticks of RAM and two weeks went by and I got an email saying they were sorry about it would take to the end of the month (Feb) because the part was so old.
But later that same week I ended up getting the replacement RAM.
Sweet!!!
Needless to say I’ll be purchasing RAM exclusively from OCZ in the future.
