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Microsoft Windows, Software, Technical May 8, 2013

Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)

My laptop was corrupted and decided to move to another laptop at work. I had existing checkouts so I copied all the code involved to the new laptop. Then I couldn’t add the workspace with the same name as it kept saying the workspace exists on my old machine. I looked around at posts on the internet and they were… Continue reading Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Linux, Software, Technical July 2, 2012

MySQL pegging CPU after the leap second adjustment.

So I find that my MySQL database is running high on CPU all of a sudden. I optimize the tables etc and no difference. I hunt around the internet to find that there seems to be a problem with this years leap second adjustment which sends MySQL into orbit. The solution reset the date date -s “`date`” and it dropped… Continue reading MySQL pegging CPU after the leap second adjustment.

Technical May 3, 2012

Hash (#) Key On The Apple Macbook Pro.

Now I keep forgetting the key combination for getting the hash key on my MacBook Pro. Now this is as much for me as everyone else. Wait for it, its …. Alt + 3

Linux, Software, Technical February 2, 2012

BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl

So since upgrading Perl I am presented with qw warnings coming out of the cron job checking that BackupPC is running. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 301. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1412. The way to get rid of these warnings is to enclose qw in parentheses and Perl processes… Continue reading BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl

Apple, Microsoft Windows, Software, Technical, Vista July 9, 2009

Firefox 3.5 and WordPress – Cant Login

Since upgrading to firefox 3.5, I couldnt login any more to my wordpress (currently 2.7) blog. It was wierd as I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on my apple running OS-X 10.5 and I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on Vista. But I could login on my clients machine running firefox 3.5 on Windows XP. What seemed to be the… Continue reading Firefox 3.5 and WordPress – Cant Login

Technical July 9, 2009

Our Time On BPOSS With BP Has Finally Come To A Close.

Well recently we were told that our team BPOSS is being outsourced to India. Its been a long journey with some of our team working on BPOSS for 6 years or more. Myself personally I have worked on the team at Sunbury for 4 years now. Its sad because its our system, we have put in a lot of blood… Continue reading Our Time On BPOSS With BP Has Finally Come To A Close.

Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Technical, Vista June 22, 2009

Vista, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player And Blu-Ray DVD's

My last upgrade of my media center included a blu-ray media player, it was a cheap LG player although wasn’t as cheap as they are today. This was bought a few years back when they first came out but didn’t install it for some time until now. Well I thought Vista was bound to support blu-ray and didnt think anything… Continue reading Vista, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player And Blu-Ray DVD's

Technical, Apple, Software June 13, 2009

13 Inch MacBook Pro – Time Is Wrong

Just got the new Macbook Pro and after transferring from my old Macbook it seemed it couldnt actually set the time correctly was always an hour behind. The problem was actually the timezone as it just said GMT in the closest city. After a little bit of tinkering I realised that that the localtime folder should be a symbolic link… Continue reading 13 Inch MacBook Pro – Time Is Wrong

Software, Technical May 19, 2009

WordPress RSS Feed Not Including Images

Ok so searched high and low for this and finally found out that it was my theme that I had added which was wrong. Look for feed_rss2.php in wp-includes and look for some code in there, that uses use_excerpt_rss my theme used this whether the rss setting->full (rather than summary) was selected or not in the settings->reading. If you change… Continue reading WordPress RSS Feed Not Including Images

Hardware, Technical May 10, 2009

Found Some Old Computer Photos

Was looking through my pictures and found two of my very old machines that I built a few years back.