Posts Tagged ‘issues’

When hosting companies go bad

photo credit: ph0t0 {loves you too} I’ve just had a run-in with my old hosting provider ServerGrid and it has just escalated to a point where I can’t work with them any more. The latest debacle consisted of them turning off one of my websites last week because they alleged...

Dealing with the tax office

One of the pains of moving from one country to another is the fact that you need to close off your tax affairs in one country and start afresh in the other (Well, there are certain benefits, but there’s a hell of red tape that you need to go through)....

Cease and Desist Notice

It is not often that I’m handed a Cease and Desist notice for my online activity. Well, that’s just what happened a couple of days ago. Apparently a webpage I created around 6-7 years ago, where an ASP version of a Magic 8 Ball can be asked a question a will...

Problems running BizTalk 2004 on a Virtual Machine

Having problems running BizTalk 2004 on a Virtual Machine? (Virtual PC/VMWare). Microsoft has all the details here. Their recommendation: Do not install BizTalk 2004 on a Virtual Machine. Must be one of the most amusing KB articles out...

Cocky Answer – Fixing @@SERVERNAME = NULL

Was looking for a solution on how to fix a known SQL problem where @@SERVERNAME is NULL and came across this posting. Someone wanted to fix this problem without restarting the box and the reply was as follows: It is much more complicated if you can’t stop and restart SQL server....

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