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Creating Deadlocks
I know this is a wierd thing to do given that SQL server is designed to prevent deadlocks.
Is there any means of explicitly creating a deadlock.
This could make tsting db code much easier.
Is there any means of explicitly creating a deadlock.
This could make tsting db code much easier.
Breezy Badger out tommorrow
Ubuntu 5.10 – Breezy Badger gets it’s official release tomorrow.
I have been using this for a couple of weeks and it is much faster than 5.04 – Hoary Hedgehog.
There have been very few updates in the last week.
I have been using this for a couple of weeks and it is much faster than 5.04 – Hoary Hedgehog.
There have been very few updates in the last week.
XP
I am not sure how much XP is an upgrade over Windows 2000.
OK it may have a little better hardware support but I don’t see the
user interface shift (which I try hard to switch off) as being any benefit.
The product activation code is a pain in the backside – I refuse to do so for XP itself.
OK it may have a little better hardware support but I don’t see the
user interface shift (which I try hard to switch off) as being any benefit.
The product activation code is a pain in the backside – I refuse to do so for XP itself.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
This is an interesting book that I came across by accident in a bookstore.
It had been misfiled in the middle of some Linux books.
This kind of accident does not occour in an online bookstore.
It had been misfiled in the middle of some Linux books.
This kind of accident does not occour in an online bookstore.
Adventures in XP (part 2)
XP is seeming decreasingly functional in comparison to Knoppix.
My new laptop came preloaded with Office XP.
Normally I don’t use office much but when my other half tried to use it she and I got a rude introduction to the world of Microsoft product activation.
My new laptop came preloaded with Office XP.
Normally I don’t use office much but when my other half tried to use it she and I got a rude introduction to the world of Microsoft product activation.
First it asked for the product version number – this would have been fine if I had brought it with me on the trip we were on.
Now we are home and I enter the product code.
Then it asks for product activation.
OK so I plug in a network cable and expect the network connection that has worked previously to be available. I go through the designed-by-an-idiot wizard to allow me to connect to my home network (no i don’t want to use my windows XP disk to configure every other machine on the network, that is 2 windows boxes and a Ubuntu linux box – they all play together just fine thank you). The wizard completes but fails to add the network connection or tell me that it has failed to do so.
The assumption at that point is that the network cable has a problem. SO without moving the machine or the cable I put a Knoppix 3.9 cd in the drive and restart the machine. I have internet connectivity! This implies that the problem is with XP.
There is something seriously wrong with XP that prevents an out of the box setup from connecting to a network. I have tried switching off the MS firewall (don’t worry it is behind a NAT router).
Rebooting the machine with the network cable plugged in seems to resolve the problem -for now. The question remains: Is XP ready for the home network?
want and nant
I have been using the want build tool to manage a resonable size delphi project.
However I have taken over support of some related C# code.
I am investigating porting the delphi specific tasks (delphi compiler, the resource compiler and dunit) to nant. So far the hardest part has been getting each of them to build in the IDE.
Once this is done I will be able to create a unified build tool.
However I have taken over support of some related C# code.
I am investigating porting the delphi specific tasks (delphi compiler, the resource compiler and dunit) to nant. So far the hardest part has been getting each of them to build in the IDE.
Once this is done I will be able to create a unified build tool.
Adventures in XP
I have just bought a laptop. It contains my first version of windows XP.
I dislike the entire concept of product activation and have avoided XP so far.
The laptop however had no choice of OS (OK I could have either XP Home or XP Pro).
I dislike the entire concept of product activation and have avoided XP so far.
The laptop however had no choice of OS (OK I could have either XP Home or XP Pro).
XP so far has been less user friendly than Mandriva or Ubuntu.
It tries to be helpful but limits you to dumb choices.
I am having fun getting it to detect my WiFi network.
It seems to assume that all other machines on the network are XP as well.
So score it down as does not play well with others.
I have been forced to manually power the machine down to kill an app – something I have not needed to do in Linux.
SlickRun
This is SlickRun.
This is a free utility that allows windows applications to be started by your own “Magic words”.
This is a real time saver.
This is a free utility that allows windows applications to be started by your own “Magic words”.
This is a real time saver.
Mono on Ubuntu take 2
This is anther article on Mono on Ubuntu.
Hopefully this version will work.
Hopefully this version will work.
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