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Category Archives: Oops
Is that code really from Sun?
I updated my Java runtime the other day, and now every time I open a new tab in Internet Explorer, I get this message box: It looks like somebody at Sun forgot to sign their update agent. At least, I … Continue reading
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I was hacked
I discovered last week that somebody had hacked my blog and added a bunch of link spam at the end of the footer script. For some unknown period of time, all of my blog pages contained hundreds of spam links–mostly … Continue reading
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Boom!
This morning I was sitting in my office, listening to music and banging away on the keyboard like a good little programmer, when I heard a very loud BANG. The first time I heard that–a couple of weeks ago–I was … Continue reading
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Watch that transaction log
This afternoon, the program that adds records to my database started timing out on every transaction. Although I could connect to the database and execute queries, all updates would time out. When I logged in to the SQL Server machine, … Continue reading
Documentation Headaches
You’d think that published documentation would be checked for correctness. I’m just getting started writing the code that parses files that use Microsoft’s Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and I ran across a rather confusing bit of documentation. The Header Extension … Continue reading
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