Christmas Morning Math Pun

Mathematicians like talking about their former partners but they don't like talking about why they broke up.

It's a classic case of the ex over the why.

Feel-Good Education

I've always had an issue with "feel good education." You know, nobody fails, everyone always succeeds, feeling good about yourself is more important than results, and so on.

It is difficult to state the arguments against "feeling good" in a cohesive manner, but one rational mom has.

Cryptic clues...

Because of this...a start while I scribble the rest down.

Her pod split into four parts. One part was found in game, two were found elsewhere (one by Blade) and the fourth part was never found but the contents were in front of the player for a large part of the game. A single bullet was at fault.

There were two different substances for two very good reasons, but there were two of one separate people working at cross purposes.

Radek survived...again.

The Universal Language

During this Holiday season, we reflect on our lives, our families, our communities and our world.

Despite all of our differences, there is one thing that all humans share...the language and love of music.

WORKAROUND: ASP.NET "Response filter is not valid."

Problem:

ASP.NET 3.5 web site. You are trying to set the Response.Filter property and you are getting an HttpException with the message "Response filter is not valid."

Cause:

There is a bug in ASP.NET 3.5 where you cannot set the Response.Filter property unless you read it first. When the Response.Filter property is first read, it instantiates some internal fields in the HttpWriter class.

Workaround:

Just read the property first so that it initializes the internal properties accordingly.

In VB:
Dim f = Response.Filter ' Assumes Option Infer On
Response.Filter = New FilterStream(Response.OutputStream) ' Where FilterStream is your stream
In C#:
var f = Response.Filter;
Response.Filter = new FilterStream(Response.OutputStream);