The pumpkin carving has been done and the results are uploaded to zooomer
Finally got around to upgrading to version 3.x of MovableType. I saw the notice that they had an important security fix come out just before we went on holiday and today has been the first day I’ve had a chance to sit down and look at the upgrade path. Almost everything looks good (the interface looks REALLY nice but when I click on Kristen’s or my blog in the main menu page I get the error message
Can’t call method “entry_id” on an undefined value at lib/MT/App/CMS.pm line 1956.
Not sure why I get this message on two of the blogs when the other blogs seem to be fine.
The Friends In Tech Halloween special is now online. I had the script for a while but I didn’t want to read any of it apart from my section so when I recorded my lines I used the search function to find my name and just read those bits. This way it was funnier to listen to and hear the jokes live. Hope you all enjoy it – you should be able to easily spot my section…..
Using the power of Google Coop I’ve created a Friends In Tech search engine. Entering search terms into the form below will run a search on all of the Friends In Tech websites.
I checked this website with the released version of ie7 and was pleased to see that it seems to work ok – the release candidates were having problems with the drop down menus for the categories and date based archives, but the final version works great.
The Cruise photos are now online at zooomr. There are a lot of them and a couple of big panorama ones too so don’t view them on dialup! All the photos are in the Cruise album or you can look at each country individually. Let me know what you think and what you think of the zooomr interface. There are a couple of things I’d love to change but at least it gives me free storage for the large amount of photos. All the photos are also downloadable in their original size too.
Victor from Immigration Tales interviewed me earlier on in the week over skype and my immigration memory from the uk is now online. If you’ve ever wondered what I sound like (and like british accents) then go and check it out. Hopefully there are some useful tips for people in the same situation. A couple of websites that I would recommend are Visa Journey for information on the visa process and also MSN expats mailing list and also there are my posts on moving to the states.
There are also several other interviews that have already been posted with some really fascinating stories.
Oh – and keep an eye out on In The Trenches for my next interview about my life and career as a techie (which hasn’t actually been recorded yet…..
One of our clients has been having issues with Volume Shadow Copy and SQL (MSDE) causing the backup to fail with the error 0x800423f4. By following the script at TazNetworks it looks like the backup might work tonight. It’s too early to tell but at least when I kicked the job off briefly it started to some work rather than just quit out of ntbackup.
Update Unfortunately the solution didn’t work for me, but I noticed that there was a hotfix available (904418) which is for x86 based operating systems. I noticed that they were trying to register the Sqlvdi.dll file, so I reran the registration of this dll (which wasn’t in the original script above), restarted ntbackup and the system state backup worked ok which was great news as it wasn’t working previously. I then kicked off the nightly backup to run though and it looks like it is working, so in short –
cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\COM
regsvr32 sqlvdi.dll
For some reason my vpn to remote sites was sometimes kicking me out after 3 mins. It didn’t always do it and it seemed to affect different clients. It looks like setting the MTU value to 1498 (instead of the low 1300) did the trick. See kb826159 for the relevant registry changes.