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Back to normal (ish)
I finally got my personal blog back to normal following my LVS account deletion. It was a long process, and proved the wisdom of always keeping a system image as a backup, and not just the files that...
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The ActiveX effect
In my current job, Microsoft Sharepoint rules. The decision was made long before my time to employ it as the common document repository, and for most people it works reasonably well. I have to force...
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Widefox
I’m a Firefox user, but I used to like Opera back in the days before Firefox was available. I changed over once I discovered TabMixPlus and All-In-One Gestures, which collectively replicated most of...
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Vuze+feedmytorrents.com, a match made in…?
Despite having played with Democracy Miro, I’m still rather attached to Azureus Vuze for one or two of its useful features*. Being an addict of US scifi TV, I was excited to discover...
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Windows Script Host error 800c0019 (VBScript)
Came across this gem today on a machine that had recently been upgraded to Server 2008: Error: System error: -2146697191 Code: 800C0019 Source: msxml3.dll Turns out that a custom VBScript was sending a...
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Getting Jira to enforce a date field is in the future on issue creation
As part of a new Jira process I am developing, I need to ensure that the date stored in a certain custom field is in the future. I was using the “compare date and time” validator for this, checking to...
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More JIRA shenanigans
As part of my ongoing project to put every management process possible onto JIRA, I have been working on a way to make our internal account codes smarter. Previously, I was using a custom field with...
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DNS cache locking on Server 2008
So I’ve been informed that there are some bizarre problems resolving a website that has recently changed providers from digiweb to novara (wasn’t my idea). From elsewhere the new site appears reliably,...
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Web of Trust vs Certificate Authorities – a hybrid approach
The only thing in engineering worse than a single point of failure is multiple single points of failure. A SPOF is a component that the entire system depends upon, and which can thus bring down the...
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