Archive for August, 2008

How to Create The Ultimate Windows XP Installation CD/DVD

« 5 August 2008 | 16:59 | IT & Software | No Comments »

http://www.anewmorning.com/2008/01/30/how-to-create-the-ultimate-windows-xp-installation-cddvd/
My laptop is in the perfect condition to try this out - fresh install with all the base apps ready to go.



MCMS: GetByGuid throws COMException (”Server Error”)

« 5 August 2008 | 15:08 | IT & Software | No Comments »

In (the now famous) Project P, working with Microsoft CMS’s security model had me ripping my hair out.
Whenever I made a call to the context.Searches.GetByGuid() method, the system would throw a COMException, citing the quite unhelpful message “Server Error. Please contact your administrator”
For future reference (in case anyone comes across this themselves) the problem [...]



Covariance and Contravariance

« 4 August 2008 | 16:09 | IT & Software | No Comments »

Covariance and Contravariance are terms used in programming languages and set theory to define the behaviour of parameter and return types of a function.
Yes, that’s a mouthful, but in a nutshell:

Covariance mandates that the return type and the parameters of a function must be a subtype of the original base class type for any superclass
Contravariance [...]



For everything else, there’s …

« 3 August 2008 | 19:56 | IT & Software | No Comments »

Dual booting Linux and Windows - Free
Resizing Windows partition into adjacent free space - Free
Realising that activating second primary partition, has wiped partition table - Priceless
For some things, you deserve a kick in the head. For everything else, there’s data recovery.
As you might have guessed, i’ve lost a lot of time at this point, and [...]




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