Discovered SQLStripes today which sits and monitors your sql servers for services, agents and drops. Has useful right click to remote control the machine via vnc, pcanywhere or rdp. Also double click interface to browse database, tables and data. Pretty nifty.
Win2VNC is an excellent utility that brings in other monitors to your desktop. Normal vnc brings the desktop of your remote machine into a window on your local desktop. Win2VNC keeps the monitor on the remote machine and sends your mouse and keyboard to the other screen. So you get more screen real estate and still only need one mouse and keyboard. Thanks to Chris for mentioning the unix version of this
Looks like there might be a new virus doing the rounds as I’ve received several bounces where i’m the “reply to” field in the email. The body of the email contains different subjects, so far i’ve had “your password”, sophos virus removal tools, ie6 patch etc… The good news is that I think I know who got infected with this one.
Tested my bandwidth on the laptop this morning and got a respectable 503.1Kbps or 61.7Kbytes/sec which is as expected. I’m going to test it in the office to see what that gives as I’m sure we are not getting the full bandwidth we pay for (or MRTG is not reporting it correctly!)
Apparently when posting bold text and italic text you are meant to use strong and em tags instead of b and i tags (which look like bold and italic) due to the latter tags being used for formatting and don’t *mean* anything. Personally i reckon that bold text means a lot more to people that strong text does. Does this mean that one day we are going to see the Worlds Strongest Text on tv (with the endless repeats?). Thanks to A List Aparts page on hacking dreamweaver which incidentally looks like a good way of customising the editor. Zempt uses the strong and em tags when writing posts, but bloggar doesn’t. Fortunately in this case I happened to use Zempt to write this post.
I’ve set up iTunes on the desktop machine and added all my mp3’s so that they are all in one place. I’ve enabled sharing and look for sharing. The help says at this point a Shared image appears under source. Unfortunately the image in the online help is missing so I can’t see what its meant to look like AND the shared files doesn’t appear. The other bad thing is that it uses (yet another) audio format, AAC, which naturally doesn’t work with much else so its yet another place to store music in. Not impressed.
I’ve set up iTunes on the desktop machine and added all my mp3’s so that they are all in one place. I’ve enabled sharing and look for sharing. The help says at this point a Shared image appears under source. Unfortunately the image in the online help is missing so I can’t see what its meant to look like AND the shared files doesn’t appear. The other bad thing is that it uses (yet another) audio format, AAC, which naturally doesn’t work with much else so its yet another place to store music in. Not impressed.
Anyone have any ideas why my w2k machine would just suddenly reboot itself to the bios screen and start backup again? It doesn’t seem to be a windows crash as I’d expect a blue screen if that was the case. Sometimes it will do it at random, but other times its reproducable. I downloaded a gif file this morning and everytime I loaded it into a certain application it would reboot. However loading into paintshoppro, saving as a jpg it was fine. Resizing the itunes app to fit the width of my screen (they don’t have a maximize button strangely) caused it to reboot.
Booting to recovery console and chkdsk of all drives initially said they were ok, but then I did a chkdsk c: /p which forces it to do a chkdsk and it found some errors, so then it was a chkdsk c: /r to repair. Then i’ll have to do f,g,h,i,j and k….. a long afternoon.
Loads of people have blogged about itunes being available on Windows machines. Interesting to see that the software is only available for W2k or XP machines though. Still thats ok by me, so I’ve Download ed iTunes 4 and will update you on how good it is. I just hope that the songs that I want in particular are available to download. It will certainly be cheaper for me being albums on itunes at $10 than it would for the same album in the uk at £13
Update Well it would have been nice if you could actually use the service in the uk, but apaprently you need a billing address in the states (and it looks like the bands that I wanted to download are not on the list anyway)
What a horrible language! Just spent ages debugging a if-then-else loop only to find that comparisons of strings don’t use if $fred == $jim but instead use if $fred eq $jim and seeing as though $fred was a variable but $jim is actually a fiixed string I had several combinations to get correct before it would work, and I have no reason why using lc($fred) to convert $fred to lowercase didn’t work. Unfortunately Demon don’t support php or asp on their server so I can’t program in these languages (which I know a little more about).