Heretic-Monkey

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

– Chuck Reid

So, I was getting this error constantly at work and found the solution on the web. I’m reproducing here without permission so that I know it will exist where I can find it.

Original: Blogs - “Project not found” problem loading a Solution with a web services project in Visual Studio.NET 2003

1. Copy the files from the Visual SourceSafe database to your local computer.
2. Create the virtual directory for the web services project manually and point it to the desired directory. Configure the application & script execution settings (IIS) (no application name etc).
3. Locate the <project>.vbproj file in IIS by clicking on the virtual directory and displaying the contents and delete it.
4. Open VS.NET and open the solution from visual source safe.
5. When prompted for the location of the web service project, select the virtual directory you have created for the web services project and hit OK.

Visual Studio will extract a new copy of the .vbproj file into the Virtual Directory and your solution should now work as expected.

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

— Bertrand Russell

So previously, I railed about the fundamentalism of science and religion. After reading this quote [onegoodmove.org] from Richard Dawkins’ recent release The God Delusion and the responses on that site, I have to agree with some of the comments.

Namely, the idea that science as the One True Method for uncovering the Truth is sacrosanct. I think that the insights of religion can shed light on scientific inquiry, much as the reverse has happened over recent times. For instance, I believe it was a great idea to have the Dalai Lama speak at the proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience. Now, I also happen to believe that Buddhism is arguably the religion whose tenets are most closely aligned with those of science. Buddhism’s “contemplaive tradition”, the idea that one must be open to new ideas at all times, correlates to the empirical method of forming allowing evidence to show the way rather than predetermined theories.

Likewise, there are times when faith in your fellow human being, not based on any evidence, can be helpful. Obviously most social and commercial interactions would be impossible if it weren’t for a certain amount of faith that the person serving you food at the restaurant didn’t lace it with poison.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

– Blaise Pascal

Certainly much evil, and much good has been done in the name of both science and religion. Then again, one wonders how a scientific notion of “evil” and “good” might be formulated. I think that might be where the recent swing towards evangelical religions and religiosity in general came from—the absence of moral or ethical awareness in the scientific community.

Anyway, I’m running out of water for my stream of consciousness, and I need to sleep, so perhaps I’ll revisit this topic later.