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I put together a fairly simple chunk of code to display a loading image while a chart was rendering. This used an updatepanel and timer. It ran fine with IE6/7 locally and IE7 remote. But IE6 would not display the image on the remote server. Just a blank page and then the chart.

I looked at a lot of different posts and finally came to the solution. It looks like AJAX will automatically compress output. IE7 can handle this, but IE6 can not. By disabling the default compression, the image now appears in IE6 on the remote server.


<system.web.extensions>
<scripting>
<scriptResourceHandler enableCompression="false" enableCaching="true"/>
</scripting>
</system.web.extensions>


A similar type of issue.

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1. Download this code: AJAXIE6Issue.txt

About the shortest book I have ever read on the Civil War. Doesn’t go into much detail about the campaigns, which is fine. More focused on what made Lee tick.

Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives)

More of an overall history of weapons development and the creation of US sniper tactics. Not much on individual soldier actions. A bit dull for such an interesting topic.

Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam

The Lawyer by Lawyer genre has gotten a bit tired, so it was interesting to see it from a non-lawyer perspective. Read pretty quick for a thick paperback.

The Lincoln Lawyer : A Novel

No holds barred account of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. Generals in helicopters ordering ground troops to assault fortified NVA positions pretty much captures the overall tenor of the book. The descriptions of the battle for Hill 875 are not for the squeamish.

Dak To: America’s Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam’s Central Highlands

History of British mining activity under the trenches during WWI. Doesn’t hold back. Graphic descriptions of the results of explosions, cave-ins and decomposition. Fizzles out at the end as all mining activity was stopped by both sides in 1917.

Underwhelming. I was wondering why the author tiptoed around Adm. Christie’s borderline criminal conduct regarding the Mark XIV torpedo. That is, until I re-read the intro and saw it was written by Christie! A classic tale of bureaucratic arrogance and incompetence taking precedence over the lives of front line combatants.

Bowfin: The True Story of a Fabled Fleet Submarine in World War II (Classics of War)

I was building a large, dynamic pivot table which was getting the above error.

The solution turned out to be simple, but a little bit irritating.

I was calling exec @sql, which resulted in the error.

Changing the above to exec(@sql) worked for sql statements greater than 500 characters.

The last 1/3 of this book is the best and most revealing about the character of the author. I wish he had provided more stories about his relationship with Rommel. His descriptions of the Russian work camps and his post war re-acclimation are excellent. I am hoping that his lectures to various war colleges and the Normandy battle tours will someday be available to the public.

Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck

Pretty good read. A bit over researched in some areas, but doesn’t bog down the story.

Void Moon