I downloaded Sydirella and fired it up – only problem is that the blognames, days and times only have one character displayed in each field and I have NO idea how to scrape a webpage to get it to display feeds…. 🙁 This page displays ok but Jerry Kindalls and Kellys don’t

Mike links to syndirella which is another RSS reader. The good thing about this one is that it is free and it supports all versions of rss and you can even devise your own scraper to make your own feeds from pages which don’t really support rss (such as Kelly’s &ltend subtle hint &gt

stupid printer! Its been complaining its out of ink recently so I replaced the black cartridge and its now complaining that the color cartridge is incompatible, yet its been using it for several months with no complaints. It needs a good kicking I think!

Phew – we now have internet access back at the office. No servers for mail etc though, but at least the priority of getting webaccess back has been achieved 🙂

This nutter has made a pc into a pumpkin….hope he changes before midnight!

Wow – I just learnt about the “exciting new features” in Windows ME – hahahahahaha – its amazing how droll the installation procedure is – and HOW many reboots does it need?

Link Magic looks like a useful utility for w2k or xp users to manage Junction points. This is Microsoft parlance for soft links in unix. In other words, make c:\mail point to somewhere obscure like c:\documents and settings\current user\profile\mail\folders\pst\1031\yet another weird directory\yes your pst is stored here!\

My friends pc is on its way to being mended now. The new 40GB hard disk with 8mb cache (thats almost more cache than my first hard disk size!) arrived sometime earlier this week. I’m now sitting watching it being very slowly formatted by WindowsME setup (as this is what the recoveryCD uses). Seeing as though its not my pc, ME stays on it!

Its been a quiet week for me this week – I’ve been out on site for three days but the guys back at the office has been busy. We were burgled on Sunday night and they stole ALL the NT/w2K servers so the disaster recovery plan was invoked – yeah right, of course it was!
Replacement servers arrive tomorrow so we have loads of restores to do – I’m a bit nervous about this as I’ve never had to do a complete DR on a NT box, mainly because once a server is up and running it gets used immediately and so there is no chance that you can back it up, format the disk and then try a restore from scratch. What is going to make it even more interesting is that these boxes use Active Directory and one of them has Exchange 2000 on it! Seeing as though the thieving scumbags also stole the firewall we’ve had no internet access at the office 🙁
At least this will give me some good experience in DR and hopefully wake some heads up to persuade people to pay more attention to DR and my requests for tape drives to be fitted (as guess how many machines didn’t have one!) When I requested a tape drive I even got the go-ahead and the order was ready to go when someone else ripped the paperwork up and refused the tape drive – so that machine is not backed up!

The lockergnome Webmaster mailing list was comparing a windows host with a linux host and the differences between the database platforms. What I want to know is that if you can download php for windows and mysql for windows, or chiliasp for linux, why are there no hosts out there which do asp, access databases AND php and mysql – that way no matter what freebie application you download from the internet it’ll work on your hosting provider!