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

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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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