It’s just a way to tell people what you’re up to or interested in. The difficulty is in deciding what your posts should be about, and the best way to resolve that conundrum is to just start typing! OK Sis, now it’s your go.
I’ve just spent about an hour trying to install the new NetBeans 6.1 Beta on my Ubuntu machine and kept getting this message in the terminal and then a bank installer screen:
Running the installer wizard…
/usr/share/themes/Human/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:71: Engine “ubuntulooks” is unsupported, ignoring…
Now you might assume that this is a problem with Ubuntu’s native look and feel not being supported or maybe some kind of java version problem. I did, and so spend some time making sure I had the latest jdk and then tried to pass a java platform argument into the install script all to no avail.
It turns out to be a problem with java and compiz. Turn the Visual Effects settings to none in System>Preferences>Apperance and the installer runs as it should.
Documentation can make or break a software project. Discuss…
What is it about big companies and the way they treat their customers? It seems that Britain’s top three ISP’s have decided to sell on private data about their customer’s browsing habits to an spyware advertising company called Phorm. That data will then be used to deliver targeted advertising. This is not an opt-in service, and will probably be buried in the small print in a change to their customer’s terms and conditions. Nice!
We’ve just put a new site together for Speedmaster Conference Centre. Most of the content won’t be changing much, the usual about us and what we do pages that make up a brochure site, but there will be a news and events feed.
Wordpress is perfect for this kind of thing and so we’ve knocked together a template based on a rather attractive design by Ten and a Half. Now I’m installing various plugins to make the whole thing a little bit more search engine friendly and setting up Google Webmaster Tools.
OK fine, you’re thinking, so why the post. Well, what’s nice about this project is that after we have sorted out the technical details and ironed out the kinks, we can get loads of links and traffic by posting pictures of what people will be spilling their canapes over when the conference centre opens. Why do people love pictures of cars?
We were privileged to experience the most spectacular sunset yesterday. As we drove in to Ilkley town center, everything looked grey and depressing, but just after we parked the car the sky changed from grey to purple to an intense pink. We sat down on a wall and for ten minutes enjoyed the most incredible display of movement and light. Breathtaking.
It must have been something because, completely unprompted and about the same time, Charles took this picture in Harrogate…
I’m using flock to update this blog post. Remarkable easy so far…
This is part of a little bit of research on our part, where we are playing with various tools to see if we can make it easier for novices to post on their blogs - we are talking here about people who may not have known what a blog is until we introduced them to it.
Just uploaded a new PHP script to our web server and got this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/xxx/httpdocs/xxx on line 37
The new file is PHP5, the web server is running PHP4.xx.
There are a lot of articles to be found on this subject but here is a condensed procedure:
Your SQL transaction log is too big and you need to shrink it before SQL server explodes through lack of disk space:
While trying to backup a SQL database using Microsoft SQL server management studio the following error occurs:
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
——————————
Backup failed for Server ‘ServerName’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) Read the rest of this entry »