CRUD why you cant afford it

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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 with and without CRUD, I dont believe it works that well for the reasons the author of the article mentions. 

The components at Tesco.com were built around exactly what we were doing rather than having generic CRUD methods and this seemed to work very well.

The MSDN article can be found here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/CRUD-afford.asp

Voice Over IP

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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 the normal phone network which means from your computer you can call a normal telephone number in the world for just over a penny a minute.

Fedora Core 2 installation patch for Epia Mini-ITX

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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 the patch from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/c3boot-2.iso and burn it on to a cd, then boot off of the new burnt cd.

The next set of instructions assume the text version of the installation

  • Go into the text installation by typing linux text at the prompt
  • Keep going through the installation until you get a warning message that the fedora disc is not in the drive, swap the original Fedora Core 2 disc 1 back into the drive.
  • Go through the normal installation steps for Fedora Core 2 until it says the installation is complete, then remove the CD then type Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a console window.
  • The original Fedora Core 2 disc had already ejected so replace that with the patched CD that you burnt before starting the installation.
  • I then made a directory in /mnt/sysimage called source.
  • I then mounted the patched cd onto that directory [Note: the cdrom device is in tmp on my installation not /dev like other instructions say]  mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/sysimage/source -t iso9660
  • Then chroot /mnt/sysimage
  • rpm -Uvf /mnt/sysimage/source/kernel*
  • once that has finished type Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go back to the original installation
  • Reboot as per original installation and it should boot into a working kernel

Got TWiki working on IIS6.0 under Windows Server 2003

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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/CookbookWindowsIISSetup
http://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 the GNU RCS site)

I wanted to authenticate users so I have used windows authentication which works fine but it does mean that users cant register themselves and then start using it without the user being added to windows box manually by the Administrator.  If any one has any ideas how to get around this I would be most obliged.

The tool itself is great and one of the best wiki tools around, as it is very mature now.

If you want to ask me any questions, please do..

Marriage on the Way !!!

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Met up with some old friends Richard Jeffery and Tracy McMillan over the weekend, haven’t seen them for about 3 years.  They were both looking well and it was as though we had only seen each other recently, not as long as 3 years.

They did have an announcement “they have got engaged”. Good luck is what I say.

Here is a picture from the pub, not too good a photo though…

Coolermaster Cool Drive 3 : FORSALE

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Ok put my five Coolermaster Cool Drive 3 enclosures on ebay as they are now cluttering the bedroom.  If your interested in buying these or any other bits I have in the gallery under “bits for sale” please drop me a line.

Not sure how these will go as they again are a specialised item.  Selling at a good price though £3.00 each as these retail at about £18.00 a go.

POP3: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir?

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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 was then seeing “Unable to scan $HOME/Maildir” looked into it and had 6000 spam messages, now the limit I have for mails is quite low so you either need to up it or delete some of the messages from the linux box running qmail or you will need to put the softlimit up, ie.

Try to increase the softlimit for pop3d which is found in your pop3d run script such as /var/qmail/service/pop3d/run (for e.g.): 

blah blah… softlimit -m 2000000 to higher value.

 

Yogesh has left IVIS Group

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Yogesh left the Ivis Group last Friday and had a bit of a doo..  unfortunately I couldnt make it as it seemed that everyone was leaving companies last Friday and I had to attend another bash.  Yogesh unfortunately couldnt hire David Bailey for his photos but got the next best person with a camera phone.

If you can see them here are the photos (2 of the better ones) ….

Now there were a few people missing, so here are some pictures from the archives….


Hover over the photos to reveil the captions (if your browser supports it), plus may take a little time to download if your on a dial up (high quality thumbnails)