AOMID (Adult Onset Momentary Illiteracy Disorder), is a relatively common condition which manifests when a person is confronted with a software error message which is outside the normal scope of software package installation or use, and is often characterised by fervid calls to some form of production level support after being unable to decipher the simplest of error messages.
This little issue can be quite annoying on any Windows machine. You have a device that suddenly stops working, and device manager just shows you its famed little yellow exclamation mark. When you open the device, you are greeted with the error:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
So, I was using a third party plugin to handle all my social media sharing, which was very cool at first, but it started slowing my site down (as it connected to another site), so a few hours ago I ventured out onto the web trying to find the code to do this all myself.
Have you had it that when browsing to a website hosted within a domain on an IIS server, you get logged off immediately? If you then use the IP address it works fine, and also using ‘localhost’ from the server works fine? This could be caused by a hostname containing an underscore.
Here is an interesting formula for calculating the data transfer rate vs connection speed of a modem.
This is an awesome tool. Awesome awesome awesome. Complete conditional control over anything you are copying! You can use it for directory comparison, drive recovery and pretty much anything else your copying heart desires. Designed initially as an internal tool for use by Microsoft, it has been kept up to date, and was officially released to the general public in April this year as part of Hoffman’s Utility Spotlight.
Every now and again, you come across a machine that has the registry die completely, coupled with an error message along the lines of
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
To restore the registry is relatively easy albeit drawn out, providing Windows Restore is enabled.
Here is a piece of software that I think is great to have installed on your PC. Definitely very handy to have from a diagnostic point of view.
I heard on the radio this morning that Gun Free SA is campaigning to have toy guns removed from store shelves over the December period, due to toy guns sending out a message to kids that it is ok to use a gun to get your way. An admirable step, in some peoples minds I’m sure.
Ok, so I’m one of many that thinks the whole anthem thing was a disaster. I am an English speaking South African, and I am proud to say that I know the entire anthem, in all its multilingual glory. I don’t believe there is an excuse for “singing” the anthem the way it was. The first thing that sprung to my mind, is now immortalised on green digital paper thanks to Windhoek…
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