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Software, Technical November 1, 2004

Got TWiki working on IIS6.0 under Windows Server 2003

At the weekend I had a go at installing TWiki running on IIS6 under windows server 2003. Eventually with my old Perl book in one hand and a mixture of these articles below I got it going… http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/CookbookWindowsIISSetuphttp://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiOnWindows2003 I didnt use cygwin in the end I used the following… ActiveState Perl 5.8 Windows Binaries of RCS (can be found on… Continue reading Got TWiki working on IIS6.0 under Windows Server 2003

Mini-ITX, Software, Technical October 23, 2004

POP3: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir?

Ok I run qmail here and funny thing was outlook wasnt logging into it. Thought I had been hacked or something. To see what the problem was I telnetted into my qmail box using telnet mail.farrowcomputing.com 110 port 110 is the port designated to pop3, then put in your username user “username” then password pass “password” and on my system… Continue reading POP3: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir?

Software, Technical October 19, 2004

Using WinCVS and Integrating Visual Studio .NET with CVS over SSH

Recently I have had to use CVS rather than source safe as the repository for my latest project. I have used CVS with visual studio 6 using the igloo toolset, now I cant remember if that was over SSH but it did work very well and CVS is far superior than source safe. The project that I am now on is… Continue reading Using WinCVS and Integrating Visual Studio .NET with CVS over SSH

Software, Technical October 4, 2004

Fixed Subtext View Picture Size Problem

Right I have fixed the view picture size problem in subtext as it was really bugging me. I have removed the width and height settings so that it either defaults to the size of the picture, or you can override the settings using css now. The new binaries with the change in are located here http://www.paulfarrow.com/download/dottextpicupdate.zip. You will then need… Continue reading Fixed Subtext View Picture Size Problem

Software, Technical October 1, 2004

javascript error in postback on ASP.net 1.1

Normal story, deploy code and what you think is live isnt actually live. In this case I am talking about the ASP.net 1.1 Service pack 1. And low and behold get a lovely javascript error when you have added controls to pages etc etc. So after much digging around I found a solution to the problem (that is rather than… Continue reading javascript error in postback on ASP.net 1.1

Hardware, Linux, Mini-ITX, Technical September 17, 2004

Upgrade of Firewall Complete

Apologies to all my customers, the sites are now back on. We have replaced the firewall as the original one appeared to have an intermittant problem on the network controller.

Mini-ITX, Software, Technical September 8, 2004

Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site

Lots of people ask me how do I change the Up2date program on either redhat or Fedora? So basically you edit the file called sources which is in /etc/sysconfig/rhn There is a list of local sites for the UK which carry mirrors but the one I use is zeniiia Just add the entries in the file above like so…. yum… Continue reading Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site

Software, Technical September 7, 2004

Added About Me Static Page to the blog

Right have now added a static page called About Me on the site. It was quite easy to do and just followed the instructions from the additional controls by Bill Nalen. I will go through the steps below …. As Bill says there are three changes that need to be made. Create a new control, I called mine AboutMe.ascx. This file… Continue reading Added About Me Static Page to the blog

Hardware, Linux, Mini-ITX, Technical September 7, 2004

Samba 3.0.6

Ran the up2date on one of my Fedora 2 hosting machines and saw that samba has a new release 3.0.6. Upgraded without any problem and also the throughput from the windows machines to this little box seemed to be faster or it could just be me imagining it. I did have an odd problem where from time to time the… Continue reading Samba 3.0.6

Software, Technical September 1, 2004

background on Feedback and contact us

Right changed the background color on the contact and feedback boxes. Light grey now, what do people think?? Better than the white. Becoming quite a css wizz… One thing I would like is to limit the pictures in the post and gallerys to a width of 450 but if I set this via css all the images will be 450… Continue reading background on Feedback and contact us