Category Archives: work
WebMarshal “3003″ errors
If, like us, you have WebMarshal, and it’s tied to an SQL Server Express database, you may find it sometimes just… breaks. You’ll get eventlog messages like “3003: Failed to write session to database” and “PRIMARY filegroup is full” and … Continue reading
Streaming EyeTV video to the network
Apparently, there’s some sort of football tournament on at the moment. Quite a big one too. I wouldn’t know. However, the fact that it’s on, and some of the games are on during the working day, causes a few problems … Continue reading
Circular reference
Can’t upgrade the Active Directory Schema until I make the server a domain controller. Can’t make the server a domain controller until I upgrade the schema. What.
April Fools Day 2010
After last year’s Epic April Fool of Win, expectations were high for today. I had a feeling people were not going to be as gulli– er, trusting, as before. After all, they don’t want to fall for it again, do … Continue reading
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Virtualising Exchange 2003
Later this year, we’ll be migrating Microsoft Exchange 2003 over to 2007. Apparently, this isn’t technically a migration but is instead a transition. Something to do with moving and upgrading the same product, rather than changing from another product (like … Continue reading
How to buy a Lenovo server
Perhaps the title for this post should contain a question mark, because, as you’ll see, I have no idea. We needed a new server at work. We always buy Dell, but The Powers That Be request that all purchases over … Continue reading
Custom Wii case
I made a custom Wii case today. I’ll make you one, if you like: just £49.99!
Creating Dress-Up Mannequins in Illustrator
I’ve created a helpsheet for everyone who has ever wanted to create digital dress-up dolls! This shows how to import images to use as fills for clothing, so you can scan in some material and use if as a dress … Continue reading
Reversed Y-axis charts in Excel 2007
I had an unusual query this week. A member of staff wanted to create a line graph that showed the chart position of a song over a number of weeks.¬¨‚Ć It’s an easy thing to do – two columns in … Continue reading
Redirected folders on disconnected PCs using GP loopback processing
Over the summer at work, we changed the way staff profiles are stored on the network. Having finally got around the “redirected Application Data breaks Internet Explorer” problem (see here for my fix) in Windows XP, we rolled it out … Continue reading
Sometimes there are things that just need to escape my head.
