Monthly Archives: November 2009
Forcing a SATA II HDD to work as SATA I
A few weekends ago, I advised my father-in-law, that buying a new SATA disk should work fine. Hours of blue-screen-of-death’s later, the BOIS did not see the disk, but XP would boot then BSOD. Everything I had read said SATA … Continue reading
LinkedIn add Twitter dribble to RSS Feed
OMG, WTF, LinkedIn developers in their lack of vision have added support for Twitter into LinkedIn, thus turning it from a business network tool, into a Facebook style pile of dung. I’m ok with that, but what I’m not cool … Continue reading
Outliers
I purchased Outliers while in America this year. Funny book buying story: there was a 20% off sticker of the jacket, but no price tag. All books in New Zealand have a price sticker on the back, as they are … Continue reading
Complex SVN repository conversion to GIT
When I converted our two Visual Source Safe (vss from now on) repositories into one Subversion (svn from now on) repository I did it in an ugly fashion. I dumped the file based history for the current live trees, then … Continue reading
Nant xmlpoke whole blocks
It took me awhile today to use the nant/xmlpoke/xpath to update our copyright message in our application so I’ll document it here. The xmlpoke documentation explains whole to replace parameters but not children nodes. The simple answer is just define … Continue reading
