Archive for the 'General' Category

upgrade 2.6.3

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

went smooth, i think

FIVE easy steps to permenant residance in the dog box

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

A while ago i wrote this “four easy steps to permenant residance in the dog box” which goes a bit like this
1. Spend two lots of THREE weeks out of the country on business (Redmond)
2. Miss Mothers Day because you are out of the country on business??
3. Spend another FIVE Days out of the country [...]

Did you know 2.0, Shift happens !!!!!!!!

Friday, October 17th, 2008

At a School event recently I was shown a a very powerfull video which puts the challenges that schools and society face today into perspective and is a real eye opener.
One thing in particulare stood out to me
“We are currenlty preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist… in order to solve problems we don’t [...]

Kids and ICT

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I went to a school meeting last night where where there was a presentation on “Virtual Learning Environment” Collaboration to you and I
The teacher doing the talk was saying how kids use IT, is very different to adults
20% of his Year9 class has had a online chat with someone in a different countrty this week
20% [...]

Everyone has their place and/or Endless Documentation

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Recently I have been involved in a few projects where for a long time I was bogged down by huge amounts of what appeared to be useless paper work, High level design, Service Definition, Service Description, Detailed design, Support documnetation, CMDB requirements, bulid documenst,??architecture review??etc, etc, etc . All of which seemed to be just [...]

Roundabouts, Lane Dicipline and Ageing Retards

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Many roundabouts have concentric lanes, which just go round and round for ever, so to exit the roundabout you must change from one lanes to the next (hopefully with the use of those orange flashing lights which seem to be optional on so many cars these days) and so on, simple.
Some however, like the one [...]

2.6.2, Nightmares

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

So he we go, upgraded to 2.6.2
And it all fell to bits, could not login, but did not get the wrong password error.
cleared all the cookies, and tried different browser , same deal !!!!
hmmm, Rolled back to 2.6.1 same deal !!!!
So this is getting drastic
Copied the setting file somewhere safe, nuke the whole lot ( [...]

2.6.1

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

it was there so i did it
Upgraded, seems to work Ok

Windows WMI shocker

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I have been working on a ZERO touch build script for IIS on and off for a few weeks,
One of the last stepping stone for formating the “data” drive prior to setting everything up
“FORMAT H: /FS:NTFS /V:ASG” will prompt for “do you want to erase all yoiu data”, and again if the disk is [...]

Putting life into perspective

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

We may all complain about bad days or even weeks at work, the price of fuel or get annoyed that the bank has just charged you £30 for a £1.20 mistake, but recent events in my life has put that all into perspective.
Yesterday I attended the funeral of a 19 year old lad (nephew in [...]


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