Some anonymous bloke complained that I was abusing Google’s page ranking because one of my pages appears second in the search
results for a particular phrase. Seeing as though the other results on the page are all related to the problem I was blogging about and I’ve not manipulated Google in any way I’ve no idea why they were moaning. Judging from the email address they left they probably have a bee in their bonnet about blogs.
As an aside, this is more likely to prove why certain results appear higher in google. Just study the html in the page, the search results and wonder no more.
Month: September 2003
A bit of hunting and editing and I managed to change the “Powered by Coppermine” logo in my gallery to point to the new Coppermine location. The forums won’t tell you how to do it because otherwise some people would probably remove the logo completely.
A bit of hunting and editing and I managed to change the “Powered by Coppermine” logo in my gallery to point to the new Coppermine location. The forums won’t tell you how to do it because otherwise some people would probably remove the logo completely.
Finally got DigiAny working on a machine at home, no thanks to the publishers though! It seems that when I installed the trial version of 3.4 and wondered what would happen if I put rubbish into the serial number prompt, not only did the 15 day trial period expire immediately, it also stopped re-installs working despite the 15 day limit coming back again. However .net magazine had an older version on a coverdisk recently (which is what tipped me off to the software in the first place). I removed the newer version, installed the old version and my mp3’s are now streaming very nicely on my wireless lan and I think it also works from the office too!
UpdateDigiAny is *not* working afterall. It works to send the web page and stuff to the remote pc in the office, but it fails when it gets to download the playlist ready to stream to the pc…..a bit more digging later and I’m wondering if the playlist it is sending is not correct as if I download the playlist, open it up and then play the mp3 listed everything works ok.
Coppermine has moved as the original author has disappeared and not paid his hosting bill.
A useful page to download Download Free Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools. Not sure on the legality of hosting these tools individually but it is a bit daft when you can download them all in one big lump (if you have a big fat internet pipe) which incidentally is similar to the stupid excuses Microsoft is giving as to why Magazines are unable to load patches on their coverdisks which is a good reason why there are so many pc’s out there that are not patched and uptodate with critical updates.
Interesting article about how ICSTIS is going after the sms spammers and the number of complaints they have received. They include details about the spammer who spammed me and then got fined £50k
Useful tip for backing up to CD in XP courtesy of WinntMag.
Back up to a CD-ROM—A major limitation of XP’s Ntbackup utility is its inability to select a CD-RW drive as a backup destination. To work around this hurdle, open Ntbackup, select the files to back up, then select C:\documents and settings\username\local settings\application data\microsoft\cd burning\backup.bkf as the backup destination. When the backup finishes, XP will prompt you to write the files to the CD-ROM
The problem with Norton has been fixed. I tracked the bandwidth down to our main update server downloading antivirus updates every 10 minutes – the same updates every 10 minutes. Once I disabled “continuous live updates” which should only attempt to get live updates if the definitions are more than 10 days old (they were uptodate) , I found it was *still* trying to download the updates. A long call to Symantec helpline and he asked me to check everything that I had already done, which was comforting to know that I was on the right track. We re-enabled continuous updates,clicked apply and then disabled it again….and the updates still kept being downloaded every 10 minutes. It was decided that maybe a reboot would force the system to reread the configuration and start downloading once a day (although I had already done one reboot). I scheduled a reboot for 10pm and went home – At 7pm the updates stopped.Reboot at 10pm and a scheduled download at 4am – as per configuration. Very strange.
Our remote site got an error message when trying to pull their email from a remote server which said “Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition mode. A quick call to the isp (suprisingly quick actually) and everything was working. Being curious I searched on the error message and it looks like the mail file was corrupt and the first line needed to be changed to be
From: fred@asdadsasd
Thanks to unix managers mailing list