RussTaylor

I think it’s the SR311 I want, not the 310, either way…

Alan’s GTR  – images from http://www.japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3260

Another pointless list, but I’m terribly forgetful…

Half the world away
Little wing
She’s electric
Fast cars

My dream garage posts take too long to build, so this is a repository of vehicles I need to add to it. No order of priority/desire, just a list.

Sunbeam S7

BSA Goldstar or similar, like Nicks bike

More to follow …

Had an annoying bug writing a WCF service. If the service was hosted on the same server as the IIS6 ASPX site that consumed it I got the following error:

Parser Error

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Reference.svcmap: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
Parameter name: site

Source Error:

[No relevant source lines]

Source File: /App_WebReferences/MyServiceReference

Really no help whatsoever. There are two solutions, firstly  you could generate a proxy for the service like

1. svcutil MyService.dll
2. svcutil *.wsdl *.xsd /language:C# /namespace:*, MyService
3. Move the generated CS to the App_Code folder
4. Remove the Web_References folder entirely

Secondly update your .net framework from 3.5 to 3.5 SP1! This bug has been cleared up in SP1 and totally avoids the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/net/Download.aspx

This has been driving me mad for about 4 months, having to resort to downloading tv to my laptop. I found the problem tonight! The KService would not run, this was because BBC and 4oD were conflicting!

Turns out the Channel 4oD service uses the same Kontiki software as the BBC iPlayer. I had uninstalled and reinstalled the iPlayer to no avail many times. This is what I did to fix it:

I bumped into a nice guide/rant on how to do this. It’s available here but a lot of rant and not a lot of instructions.

What you need to do is go to

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/29-windows-live-messenger.html

and grab the Messenger install. Basically the Windows Live installer is the only part not compatible with server 03, so if you just get this it all works fine.

I reconfigured our Subversion install last night, and the Apache service wouldn’t start. The event viewer said

The Apache service named  reported the following error:
>>> SVNParentPath takes one argument, specifies the location in the filesystem whose subdirectories are assumed to be Subversion repositories.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The problem was I had specified

C:\Production Source\

as our repository, this has a space in it, so in

C:\Program Files\CollabNet Subversion Server\httpd\conf\httpd.conf

I modified

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath “C:\Production Source\ORS2\Repository”
</Location>

Putting the quotes around the parent path. Silly problem, easy fix.

For one weeks salary for a graduate here you could outsource for probably a month? Everyone who works on your project has a “degree”… surely you’d be mad not to outsource and save a fortune?

I’d argue that the overall quality of the work produced will suffer (having seen some horific work); here might be the reason:

http://blog.uncool.in/2009/01/19/computer-science-fail-higher-education-in-india/

In case this site goes missing, lesson one of “Introduction to Programming” in this guys college in India included these helpful lessons he noted:

• Linux is basically a DOS based OS.
• These days we are using 128 and 256 bit processors.
• A compiler is a software that converts code written in a particular programming language to machine code. To compile a program, you must hit ALT+F9. (It took me a while to realize he was talking about the Borland Turbo C++ IDE from 1992, a prehistoric compiler Indian colleges use for all C and C++ courses.)
• The object code generated by a C++ compiler is almost identical to that produced by a Java compiler.
• The first high level language was Ada, also known as Smalltalk. (This was a big WTF moment.)
• The second high level language was COBOL, which was an improvement over Ada. (Cringe, cringe, cringe.)
• FOTRAN came after COBOL. (No, “FOTRAN” is not a typo. This is what he said.)
• FOTRAN, COBOL, Ada and Smalltalk were not general purpose languages.
• This one is classic: C was the first language to run on UNIX systems. All languages before C ran only on Windows.

I had this error when trying to run some asp.net under IIS6.

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The current identity (NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE) does not have write access to ‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files’.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: The current identity (NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE) does not have write access to ‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files’.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HttpException (0x80004005): The current identity (NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE) does not have write access to 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files'.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.SetUpCodegenDirectory(CompilationSection compilationSection) +3570267
System.Web.HttpRuntime.HostingInit(HostingEnvironmentFlags hostingFlags) +218

[HttpException (0x80004005): The current identity (NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE) does not have write access to 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files'.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +3465427
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +69
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +279

——————————————————————————–
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.1433; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.1433

To solve it you can run aspnet_regiis. First make sure the .net framework is in your host path variable (something like C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727). Then run

aspnet_regiis -ga “NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE”

from cmd prompt. More information on aspnet_regiis here.