Was getting the error #1030 – Got error 28 from table handler on one of my customers boxes realised that the partition was out of disk space.
BP's British Cormorant
Went on BP’s British Cormorant the other week down at Coryton it was excellent. The Captain was very nice and let us look all over the ship.
Details are here
It has a 1km turning circle, massive. It was only 2/3rds loaded that is about 700,000 barrels of oil at todays prices thats about 44 million dollars worth of oil.
excluding a dependency via UP2Date
always wondered how to exclude from up2date finally got off my backside and looked into it…
for all you out there that dont know its up2date –update –exclude=
Reading memo fields in Access using asp and ado
as a reminder to myself really, in access 2000 there is now a memo field these can only be read once from the ado recordset in asp. The second time the field will be null, ie if you do the following…
<%= myRS("linkname") %>
<%= myRS("linkname") %>
twice the second one doesnt return anything as it loses the field contents, I believe this is by design
CSS and Accomodating different browsers
the same old problem, using css different things appear in different places. The solution you have to trick some of the browsers so you can use different css tags – this is one of the best sites I have seen for a long time documenting the features of each browser.
enjoy…
Undefined reference to errno with make of checkpassword
On some flavours of linux errno is a macro rather than an int so you need to alter the error.h file for it to compile
You need to do the following….
mv error.h error.h.orig
sed -e ‘s/extern int errno;/#include
Just got into the VOIP world here….
The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path
The famous error “The project you are trying to open is a web project you need to open it by specifying its URL path” in visual studio .net. Basically you have either lost your .webinfo file or your .webinfo file is pointing to the wrong project or wrong place.
Took me a while to figure it out but hope that helps someone. Hopefully the source code provider isnt so buggy in Visual Studio 2005.
More of Scruffy – couldnt resist
Took this really nice picture of Scruffy today while at lunch.

He looks so contented now its the summer, out in the garden. And him teasing ‘Mia the doggy’ and then having a scratch on the tree.


Taking Delivery Of A MAC Powerbook G4 15 inch
Took delivery of my new machine yesterday. Rather swiss, this is my first Mac, they tell me once you taste Mac you never go back !!

First thing I needed to do was to get it on my encrypted wireless network ugh oh !! Couldnt for the life of me get it on, I use a manual 128 bit key and have my passphrase in key 4, did a bit of reading and realised that the Mac only reads passphrases from KEY 1 so had to move my phrase into that on my existing wireless access points and yes it all works…
Other problem I had was that I couldnt get the Mac to see my shares on the windows 2003 domain controller. It could connect via ip address and share name but the file finder couldnt browse the list of shares. Tried for ages to get it going and at last seem to have cracked it. Basically having read a lot of articles on the subject on the web I realised that in my local policy I had the network client talk securely (if server agrees) disabled as some articles say so made that enabled and just disabled the always talk securely and enabled send smb passwords unencrypted and this appears to have fixed it although I not entirely too confident about that. But its all working now 🙂 the linux, windows and mac boxes can all talk together and share files no probs. Can even pass files to my mac laptop which is just great.