Blog By Farrow…
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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.
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
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
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
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
After much playing around I decided not use the Wiki at this point. Its very good and I could see a use for it, if and when I start a new project it would be like a living notepad. My initial thoughts were to have the Wiki as the main home page and the blog off of that but what… Continue reading My Wiki and Subtext