In the light of recent events (if you don’t know what I mean, ask) I am cleaning up. The house is one thing. The effect that it has on your overall state of mind is astonishing. Although I thought I didn’t mind working/living in a messy place, having it tidy (well, tidier, it’s not completely done yet) sure makes a lot of difference. My head feels lighter, you can focus more on things you want to do, instead of things you should be doing.
Today I cleaned my desk at work. Not only can I find my stuff now, but it looks like I’m an organized person 🙂
It looks like the guys (and/or girls) have made an addition to the page on which you can read about their free Express version for Linux. As I told you about the limits of only one CPU, 5GB of disk space and 2GB of memory, they now add:
Please note that these limits apply to each instance of ASE Express Edition. You can have many instances of ASE Express Edition running on a machine (e.g., a multiprocessor machine), and hence in total, all of these instances could utilize more than one processor, more than 2 GB of RAM and manage more than 5 GB of disk space.
So, if you have a bigger machine, and don’t mind running multiple instances, this could be a very cheap solution.
A long, long time ago (where have we heard that before) I used .Text as my blogengine, but the consistently randomly appearing failures made me switch to b2evolution, although there are several features in .Text I miss.
Borland uses a Interbase-port of .Text for the blogs of their employees, and one of them has used its database-design to test the usability of ECO-II. It so happens that with the aid of ECO-II they:
– discovered a bug in the reverse-engineering tool
– found that the .Text-database design is less than optimal
– found that the .Text-database is inconsistent
Of course, you can see (here) what they’ve changed to correct all this. Now if they could only add subcategories, I would be happy to give it a try again.
I wonder what Scott’s reaction will be….
Just experienced the not-able-to-use-email problem again. Restarting the PC was the solution. But…after one send-receive action, the problem rises again. I think it has something to do with Norton Internet Security. That’s the only thing that changed recently.
Update: Guess I’m not the only one having problems with NIS2005 and mail: see this discussion.
Update (5/12/2004): The problem was NIS2005. Uninstalling it makes mail run smoothly again. But I don’t want to be surfing unprotected, so I’ll have to look into that a.s.a.p.
I follow closely who and what visits this blog and other parts of my webserver. “What” being virusses and/or spyware. There are lots of 404 entries (page not found), because the requested page is something along the line of “c:/winnt/system32/cmd.exe”. Of course, that is not on my server.
Programs or browsers requesting such non-existing stuff, will be presented with this page. Real users can accidently request non-existing pages, but virusses SHOULD be treated differently.
So I was looking into creating a more sophisticated 404-page, one that actually detects what the requested page was, and in case of suspicion of a virus, send them an image of “the finger”, or something. Or a link to a good anti-virus program of course B)
Searching around the net for some info, I found this site. Dedicated to custom 404-pages. Cool.
For some reason, I cannot use mail. Nameserver looks ok, ping to the server is ok, mailserver runs fine, but I can’t send mail. I restarted the mail-daemon, restarted the complete server, but nothing.
:-/
Update: I tried about everything: I’ve reset (powerdown/powerup) all network hardware, restarted the PC’s, disabled all anti-virus/firewall software, but I can not send or receive any mail.
Update 2: I’ll be damned. I restarted this PC *AGAIN* and now it works. Windows XP rules. NOT!
Show your desktop, and click on “My Computer” (Deze computer). Don’t release the mousebutton, but drag the icon to either side (up, left, right) of the screen so that it partly disappears. Now release the mousebutton.
Ta-daaaah! (file:///C:/WINDOWS/Media/tada.wav)
You’ve just created a new toolbar.
When you want to accomplish something, you have to be creative. As a matter of speaking, or literally. This blogpost has some tips. Read them, you will notice that some (or all!) of the tips can be very useful.
A controversial man, that’s what he was. He died this evening, our Prince Bernhard, at the age of 93. Cancer. I hope that one day they will find a way to end its aggression, or to even cure this horrible disease. But then again, the aggressiveness of the disease prevents a lot of suffering.
*sigh*