Mini-ITX

Recently upgraded to vista and for the life of me couldnt get the vista to work with rsyncd running from cygwin.  Would always stop with a code 12 error and not alot else.  I just run rsyncd or rsync with the daemon option as I dont belive the cwrsync works as a service yet on vista.  Now in the backuppc… Continue reading Getting Rsyncd, Vista and Backuppc to work

Ok I previously blogged how to get visual studio 2003 talking to cvs using putty and pushok.  This is an update to that, which can be found previous to this entry. Pre-cursor to this is that you have putty working with your linux / unix machine and that you can open a session using ssh without using a password. I… Continue reading Visual Studio 2005, Pushok and CVS on Vista / Linux

Was getting the error #1030 – Got error 28 from table handler on one of my customers boxes realised that the partition was out of disk space. 

On some flavours of linux errno is a macro rather than an int so you need to alter the error.h file for it to compile You need to do the following…. mv error.h error.h.orig sed -e ‘s/extern int errno;/#include /g’ error.h.orig > error.h

Kept getting the message ‘Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client’ after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so.. UPDATE mysql.userSET password=OLD_PASSWORD(‘somepassword’)WHERE user=’someuser’AND host=’somehost’;… Continue reading Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client