Datsun Fairlady Roadster 2000 SR311

April 16th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Cars, Dream garage   No Comments »

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

Fairlady Roadster

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Nissan Skyline KPGC10

April 16th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Cars, Dream garage   No Comments »

KPGC10
KPGC10
KPGC10

KPGC10

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

KPGC10 GTR
KPGC10 GTR
KPGC10 GTR
KPGC10 GTR

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Things to nail on guitar, list

April 7th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Uncategorized   No Comments »

Another pointless list, but I’m terribly forgetful…

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

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Dream Garage, list

February 19th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Bikes, Cars, Dream garage, Motors   No Comments »

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 …

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Reference.svcmap Source Error [No relevant source lines]

February 16th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Development   2 Comments »

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

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BBC iPlayer installs fine but won’t run / start

February 4th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Uncategorized   No Comments »

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:

  • From Windows Task Manager stop the KService and KHost processes.
  • From Control Panel uninstall the BBC iPlayer and the 4oD player.
  • Navigate to C:\Program Files\Kontiki and delete all the contents of the folder.
  • Install the iPlayer.
  • In task manager KService now runs, I had to start the iPlayer manually and tada now when I click download it works!
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    Install Windows (MSN) Messenger Live under Server 2003 / 2008

    January 29th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Computers   No Comments »

    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.

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    Problem starting Apache service for Subversion

    January 29th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Computers, Development   No Comments »

    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.

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    Why shouldn’t you outsource your development to India?

    January 20th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Uncategorized   No Comments »

    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.

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    IIS6, The current identity (NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE) does not have write access error

    January 19th, 2009 by Russ | Posted in Uncategorized   No Comments »

    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.

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