Posts Tagged ‘problems’

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...

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

I came across a Wikipedia page on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Read these and tell me if they ring any bells: The network is reliable. Latency is zero. Bandwidth is infinite. The network is secure. Topology doesn’t change. There is one administrator. Transport cost is zero. The network is homogeneous. Great aren’t they? If you’ve worked in IT...

When all else fails .. reset!

I had some problems recently trying to get LogMeIn working in IE7. I had disabled the add-on some time back and I couldn’t get it to work again. It wasn’t appearing in Add-On manager, so I couldn’t enable it again, yet, when I hit the page, the website assumed I...

Virtual PC woes

I just spent a week swearing at Virtual PC. Everything seems to work nicely in the beginning. Got the latest Biztalk 2004 build from Gavan to play with. It works fine for a couple of times, then BANG!! Everything stops working. The cause of the problem seems to be SQL...

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