Like it or not we are all travelling through time. Professor Stephen Hawking may have somewhat more to say on this subject but this is my view. Continue reading Time Travel
Wish List
Well… at the moment I’ve got these Earth Warder’s Gloves for +dmg and Dreadmist Wraps for +health and while they’re both ok what I really want are a pair of Felheart Gloves.
I guess I’ve just got to keep running MC.
Overcoming SQL Server Express Security
Despite the name this is not a hacking article.
In it’s default install SSE2005 only allows local connections. Getting it to talk to other systems is a bit of a pain.
Here are some hints.
SQL Owned
Permissions in M$ SQL Server can be a pain in the ass.
Your application needs access to the database but handing out the ‘sa’ user password is generally a bad idea. For most people this doesn’t seem to be a problem. Most example code I’ve seen uses the ‘sa’ user account. Ouch! Continue reading SQL Owned
Can’t be RSS’ed
For ages I’ve had a page open in my browser and today I actually used it. The idea of doing something with RSS on our site has been hassling me for a while now and I must’ve been looking for code to implement (read: copy and paste) it on our site. Continue reading Can’t be RSS’ed
Yet Another DW Fail-To-Start
As per usual DreamWeaver proves itself to be a buggy PoS.
Corrupted site cache suspected? Try the de ri·gueur fix.
Nuke ‘Em!
Fixed my first bug last Thursday. Didn’t write about it then because I couldn’t be buggered (no pun intended).
Seems DNN3’s skin and container preview thumbnails weren’t displaying in its admin interface. Unbelievably the <img src= URL had back slashes in it. On my W2K -> W2K3 server URLScan was blocking this. Continue reading Nuke ‘Em!
Nuked!
After an evening and a morning wrestling with a DotNetNuke installation it finally started working. Continue reading Nuked!
Project
I think I may have just come up with something for me to do to a) do some actual work around here and b) further my knowledge of web standards.
One of our academics has a Journal web site that is desperately out-of-date web standards wise. It’s a relatively small site (compared to the main site I work on) and will allow a degree of freedom design-wise that is not true for my main site.
Worthwhile
Well, I’ve finally done something that turned out to be worthwhile.
I’ve spent the best part of the last two weeks installing Fedora Core 4 on one of my DEV machines and although it has been hugely beneficial for me learning Linux/MySQL/PHPMyAdmin/Webmin/etc it hasn’t been overly productive, work-wise. Continue reading Worthwhile