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Lately i’ve been playing with a number of beta’s from Microsoft.
Firstly was Microsoft MAX, after watching a fairly recent cast on channel9 and installing WinFX Runtime Components September CTP, I received the following error in Outlook 2003 “Could not initialize CLR MANAGED MAPI SERVICE CATASTROPIC FAILURE, Unknown error”. After finding out that The WinFX Runtime [...]

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Just came across an Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. I was hoping it would have a network protocol analyzer built in, but it looks very handy any how. Regardless you can still use NETCAP, which is included in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools, or microsoft network monitor with windows server editions, or Ethereal, [...]

I was quite surprised to see my computers memory usage creep up to 811,316K with FireFox (1.07) open with two tabs, minimal graphics and no pages containing applets. I realise Firefox has many problems with memory usage and multiple tabs, (I’m not sure if thats still the case) and also with a large number of [...]

Currently it is not possible to manage multiple Exchange Accounts with a single profile and it looks like it won’t be possible in Outlook 12 either. Looks like i’ll have to keep on tapping my fingers on the desk while outlook shuts down and restarts another profile. The main problem with this is that Exchange [...]

Just came across this whilst creating an XML HTTP object and creating a socket to a page that doesn’t exist. I couldn’t understand what was going on when I saw that.

<!–
- Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
- “feature” to Internet Explorer. If the text of
- an error’s message is “too small”, specifically
- less than [...]

I can never seem to remember, how to remember how to reconfigure a subdomain with plesk without looking it up, so for quick reference.

<directory /home/httpd/vhosts/ajohnstone.com>
php_admin_value open_basedir none
</directory>

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a

OR

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u –vhost-name=domain.com

Also, today I learnt that you cannot attach the onmouseover event to an option element. I found this rather odd, despite never having attempted [...]

MySQL Install multiple instances.
Create a folder called Conf with Instance.1.ini, Instance.2.ini, and Instance.3.ini.
The Port each are listening on should all differ, as well as having a different data directory.
I named these

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\MySQLData\Instance1

mysqld –install "Mysql-Instance-1" –defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\Conf\Instance.1.ini"
mysqld –install "Mysql-Instance-2" –defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\Conf\Instance.2.ini"
mysqld –install "Mysql-Instance-3" –defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\Conf\Instance.3.ini"

in the ini file [...]