January 31st, 2010
Last night we went out to Boston Rock Lounge (out Doors way in Edenvale) to watch Broken Truce. The first band that came on was Mazaru. Very different hearing a band that use a Didgeridoo and bongo drums combined with metal! They were very cool and definitely worth an honourable mention. Next was Broken Truce’s turn to take the stage.
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January 30th, 2010
So, I get told yesterday by battica that she has a surprise for me. When she got home, I was presented with a ‘Poken’, and my response was probably the same as yours, “a what?”.
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January 20th, 2010
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.
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January 16th, 2010
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)
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January 10th, 2010
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.
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January 6th, 2010
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.
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December 21st, 2009
Here is an interesting formula for calculating the data transfer rate vs connection speed of a modem.
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December 16th, 2009
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.
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December 13th, 2009
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.
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November 23rd, 2009
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.
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