Diary: October 2005
Ok, ok, that last entry was clearly a bit fishy. It was tempting, but then I remembered I was violently opposed to sport in all forms, so that was that.
In the end I went over to PC World and bought a 450W PSU (an extra 100W), and after much googling found Microsoft's Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility, ran it and now everything's back to normal. It's been running for about 15 hours now without any hangs, I haven't seen any "unknown hard error"s, and the fans have been humming away solidly. So I think ...
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Today, I have found some bugs in things that people assume will be bug free.
First I found a link on the recently-publicised google.org that linked to one of those annoying domain-squatting search sites, as opposed to the real site for the Acumen Fund.
And now I have found a bug in the babelfish. German to english 'igelburger' (hedgehog burger) returns 'more igelburger'. Sure, ok, igelburger isn't a mainstream word, so they're forgiven for not knowing that, but where did the 'more' come from? So English to German 'more igelburger' returns 'mehr igelburger'. Which, when translated back ...
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Has anyone else noticed the way that windows update will update itself and then decide that you want to reboot the machine, and does it for you?
That's the third time it's happened while I have work open. And the best bit is there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off - you can tell it to prompt you to upgrade, but as soon as it's done it will say 'Do you want to reboot now?', and ask it every 5 minutes. And if you're working on another computer when that message pops ...
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Wow, do I feel dumb. I've just spent half an hour trying to figure out why I couldn't log onto my linux server. I went through all the logs looking for error messages, and found something about ssl from the wrong IP (actually checking e-mail, but anyway). So I found it had a dhcp server running that shouldn't be, I closed it down, checked my ARP cache thinking it might have been left in there, reinstalled the ssl server, rebooted the machine, nothing worked.
Then I looked at the port I was trying to connect to...
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I finished writing a new ActionScript class to control my custom slide bars and tried to compile it. I got the following error:
The name of this class, 'Slider', conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded, 'Slider'.
I have just spent another hour going over it trying to find what could possibly be wrong. I only loaded it once, and I couldn't find an in-built class called Slider, so what else could it be?
Well, apparently, it's the timestamp of my class definition file. My desktop clock is set at 09:12, my server clock ...
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