As an IT professional I decided that it really was time I got my printer to work across the LAN at home. It all used to work perfectly, with my old colour inkjet shared between 4 computers – and one of them running Windows 98 – but then a few tings changed. In rapid succession […]
Entries Tagged as 'Computing'
Pointless but wonderful
April 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Technology
For all those heretics who used to have a Commodore C64 instead of the mighty ZX Spectrum, here is something which may bring back some memories – someone has written a theme to make his blog look like the command line interface from the C64. Having never had a C64 myself I can’t say how […]
Old operating systems
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
Having already paid tribute to the mighty Sinclair Spectrum this week, I had another trip down memory lane this evening. I was looking the all-singing, all-dancing statistics available to me with the new hosts to see what was in there and found the bit where it tells you what operating systems are used by visitors […]
Tags: AN Hosting·Computing·Nostalgia
Happy Birthday Speccy!
April 24th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Technology
The Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old today. It was first sold in April 1982. I devoured Spectrum-related magazines for over a year until I eventually got my hands on a 48K model in September 1983 for my 21st birthday and haven't looked back since. I should think my iRiver or my mobile phone has […]
Downtime
April 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Downtime · Technology
When I got home and found my server unreachable I had that sinking feeling that the old trouble had returned, despite being on a different server, run by a different company in a different continent. It turns out that it was actually a major power issue in their main data centre and not my fault […]
Tags: AN Hosting·Computing
When is broadband not broadband?
April 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on When is broadband not broadband? · Technology
I did a bit of a double-take reading this story when it came to this part: In 2001, notes the report, the UK was 21st among OECD nations ranked by the number of broadband users. Now the UK heads G7 countries for availability of narrow band broadband. "Narrow band broadband" seemed like a contradiction of […]
Tags: Computing
Reasons why we love Microsoft – No. 412
April 5th, 2007 · 15 Comments · Technology
After loading the latest security update patch thing to Windows I now get an error message whenever I fire up the computer. The error message says: The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an address range reserved for Windows system […]
Back to basics
March 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
Yet again some piece of rogue code has been causing WordPress to misbehave badly enough to practically cripple the server. I don’t know any more details than that really, just that I need to fix it. So I have stripped WordPress of everything that I can. The core software is the latest version – only […]
Laptops
March 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
I have not been the only Crawley blogger to experience technical difficulties. Shortly before I went off air, Danivon had his own problems. (He is now back with with some nice meaty posts about the local hospital, Cameron's worker-hostile policies and waste in the NHS while I still prattle on about cycle paths and Primeval) […]
Tags: Computing
Specific cry for help
March 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on Specific cry for help · Technology
Are there any WordPress/php gurus out there who can suggest a way to get this bit of code working under WP 2.1.2? <?php $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”); foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) { if (get_links($link_cat->cat_id, ”, ”, ”, FALSE, ”, FALSE, FALSE, -1, FALSE, FALSE)) { ?> <div class=”left-widget-title” id=”linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>”> […]
