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Looking for details on asp.net 2.0 and its official release date I stumbled upon the article on MSDN about “CRUD why you cant afford it”, this article talks about everything that I have disliked about CRUD for a long time. I have never really talked up about it though as most people rave or say “you must have CRUD”, when having written systems… Continue reading CRUD why you cant afford it
A friend of mine just recommended using Skype which is a voice over IP product. Had a go and I must say it works very well, I have used other products which are similar and run across the internet and are very choppy but this has fantastic quality. Plus they have hooked up with telecommunications companies to provide access to… Continue reading Voice Over IP
As you may be aware the original Fedora Core 2 installation will just keep rebooting on an Epia Mini-ITX machine. There are many newsgroups articles about this subject but I believe that they are all a little confusing so here is what I had to do to install Fedora Core 2 on to my Epia Mini-ITX CL600 machine. First download… Continue reading Fedora Core 2 installation patch for Epia Mini-ITX
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
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?
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
If you were getting permission denied while mounting a w2k3 share onto a linux box then here is a suggestion to get around that • On the Win2K3 server select Domain Controller Security Policy from the Administrative Tools menu
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
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
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.