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A little bit more done - photos

Got the photo’s working now, still messing with the layout though..

You can see get to the albums page here

Updates, well more like a backdate…

Okay so i got bored with my old orange and black theme that i had on the site so needed a quick change with an idea of making my own theme in the nearest future. Well as all best plans go, i got side tracked and have stayed with this current theme (Officelog) but this weekend is/should be/was the weekend where i get down and sort it all out.

Looking for inspiration i thought it would be good to try and look at my past designs. As i have had a few harddrive failures in the past, unfortunately i have not got them on disk so i fired up the old wayback engine (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pljdesigns.co.uk) to see what i could find.

It came up with a few layouts but they were not quite right with missing images and skewed layouts but what it did do is show me the posts from the time the archive was made which got me thinking… my old site was running on a very simple blogging software which i used before i jumped to wordpress.

The question arose, “Do i still have the backend to that site?” As i haven’t moved servers and generally don’t mess with MySQL there was a good chance that the posts were there in some way or form. I fired up my control panel and logged onto myphpadmin and took a look. Lo and behold there was the original database - all two tables!!

What I have done is copy all of the posts from my old blog into this one, along with all the time stamps etc. unfortunately I have not done the comments as i got bored (and was supposed t be redesigning the site anyway)

I now have entries from 2004 -2005 which includes my very first post. It’s funny looking back and remembering the setting and reason around each post.

Enough side tracking….

Google Chrome - Google joins the browser race

Google have joined the web browser race by releasing the beta of their upcoming web browser today: Google Chrome.

Based on open source technology, the browser brings in some new ideas to offer increased robustness and speed such as a task manager for the browser so that you can monitor what sites are hogging your bandwidth, spawing a new independent process for each tab reducing memory problems and browser hangs and a completely rewritten javascript virtual machine that complies code instead of interpreting it.

I will definately be downloading a copy to try out, who knows it may actually live up to it’s claims!

the Google comic detailing the features can be found here: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Terminal Server protocol error

Sometimes we have a problem with Windows Update and Terminal server that messes with the protocol causing the following error:

The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol. Please try connecting to the remote computer again or contact your server administrator.

To fix this simply do the following:

1. On the client, navigate to the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing.
2. Click MSLicensing.
3. On the Registry menu, click Export Registry File.
4. In the File name box, type mslicensingbackup, and then click Save.
5. If you need to restore this registry key in the future, double-click mslicensingbackup.reg.
6. On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click Yes to confirm the deletion of the MSLicensing registry subkey.
7. Close Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.

When the client is restarted, the missing registry key is rebuilt.

Reccurring DNS Error

I have had a reccuring DNS error on our SBS server for quite some time now. I’m not too sure how it came about but i suspect it was something to do with removing a member server that was acting as a second domain controller. The error was:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    DNS
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    4000
Date:     18/07/2008
Time:     06:38:39
User:    N/A
Computer:Â Â Â SBS01
Description:
The DNS server was unable to open Active Directory. This DNS server is configured to obtain and use information from the directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and reload the zone. The event data is the error code.

Long story short, i had a duplicate zone in my dns server that was empty - all i needed to do was remove it and restart a few service an hey! no error.

the zone was _msdcs under mydomain.com - it was greyed out with nothing inside it. I had another copy of thiszone above it called _msdcs.mydomain.com which had all the right data in it.

1. So i deleted the empty _msdcs entry
2. at a command propmt ran: net stop netlogon
3. then: ipconfig /flushdns
4. then restart the DNS server
5. then run: net start netlogon
6. and finish with: ipconfig /registerdns

No more error in 6 easy steps!