http://blog.species5618.net The time has come to VENT my anger on the world Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:39:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en went smooth, i think http://blog.species5618.net/2008/11/02/upgrade-263/ 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 ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/10/22/dog-box-too/ 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 ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/10/17/did-you-know-20-shift-happens/ 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 ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/10/15/kids-and-ict/ 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 ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/09/25/endless-documentation/ 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, ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/09/15/roundabouts-lane-dicipline-and-ageing-retards/ 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, ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/09/09/262-nightmares/ it was there so i did it Upgraded, seems to work Ok http://blog.species5618.net/2008/08/26/261/ 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 ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/06/26/windows-wmi-shocker/ 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 ... http://blog.species5618.net/2008/06/24/putting-life-into-perspective/