Archive for August, 2009

Weird IE6 bug

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I don’t use IE if I can help it but my internet banking does so ocne in a while I’m forced to.
Also, I don’t use automatic/windows updates at all. If tehre is some update that I really need, I try to get it manually. So my IE is outdated.
That being said, I noticed quite a while back that it happens that I start a new IE browser and no site will load. I disabled all add-ons and still nothing. However, I noticed that disabling an addon, closing browser,then enabling it back, again closing browser and starting the browser the 3rd time will sometimes make it work.
But this is an annoying workaround and it doesn’t work all the time.
Today I found another workaround: open a second browser window without closing the first one. From all my tries tilll now, this works all the time and is much more nicer and user friendly.

So, whomever is having this issue, I hope it will work for you 🙂

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Delphi, ADO: update/modify and delete from a join recordset

Monday, August 10th, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve written a Db-app from scratch and a few days ago I started writing an invoice-like app for myself.
At one point I needed to insert/update/delete into/from a resultset of a join. I was getting this error:
“Row cannot be located for updating. Some values may have been changed since it was last read.”
After googleing for a little while I found the following golden piece of information on ADO programming on the web archive which was posted here

Now everything works like a charm 🙂

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MySQL – Data Provider Or Other Service Returned An E_FAIL Status

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I spent quite soem time on this error until I managed to figure it out.
My problme was different from what you can usually find on the net. I had a table with 1 autoinc integer column and the rest all varchars fo various lengths. So no date field.
What I ended up doing was to install the latest mysql odbc connector (5.1 as of this writing) which offered me some options (I don’t knoiw if they are required as I set them, I used my common sense when setting them absed on my needs). I cheked on the flags pages the following:
– Don’t prompt when connecting (flags 2)
And that’s it 😀 so nothing spectacular.
Before this I was using the 5.0 connector. So it appears there was some problem there because this is the only thing I changed.

Enjoy 🙂

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Greasemonkey: warn helper and aa_common_all scripts have been updated

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I made a new fix in the ban_spammer function of the warn helper script, whichi required a modificaiton of the progress log functions in common_all.

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Some improvements in server configuration.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Just a flittle while ago, I moved the mysql DB to the (not so) new HDD. beside space (which the binary logs nicely fill up) there will also be some speed improvement.
I also moved the data storage part of the email server to the new HDD.
This move reduced my primary (and very old) HDD usage from 99% to 44%. It’s a 5.4 GB HDD fro those who didn’t read my past messages. The new hdd is 80 GB.
Why isn’t the new HDD the primary (and only) hdd? well, because I hate reinstalling 😀 Plus, the rest of the pc-s hardware matches it 🙂

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