James Lloyd

In the spirit of release early release often, if have made JLBP2 v0.1 availble for download. Its the exact code im currently using on this site, so clearly works (I think).

Download can be found here on the project page.

At the beginning of the week I started to create my own wordpress theme using the blueprint framework. Towards the end of this week, that theme is on its second version and has had a complete rewrite from scratch. The whole process has made me love Wordpress even more than I did, and now with blueprint all “FFS! its broken in IE again” woes have gone Continue reading read more…

I have been playing with the wordpress templates or sometime, and have created several from scratch, with varying levels of success. I created this one with the blueprint css framework, last one i did with 960.gs. This seems to be working much better.

Currently getting irratated by Microsoft’s stupid browsers. Role on IE8 which is standards compliant. Will try and get some of the IE problems sorted, (may be, probably not).

Update:

Have been trying to fix a problem with my widgets sidebars, the theme has some on the front page and the standard side bar as well. Turns out to be a bug in 2.5.1 of wordpress, who’d a guessed it wasnt my shoddy coding?. Continue reading read more…

Darren found some cool new apps that you probably need in your life.  He’s blogged it already so I dont have too.  Check it out

Background

A couple of days ago, I took delivery of my PS3 a wonderful piece of kit that does 99.9% of the things my xbox 360 does. The PS3 purchase was mainly so I have the ability to play Blue Ray discs and also to be able to play GT5. I had no intension of playing COD4 on it, this was mainly because i have spent the passed month or so desperately trying to get my Gold AK47, and BTW was only 50 headshots with the MP44 off getting it. The saturday morning I sat in waiting for the PS3 to be delivered. I thought i’ll knock a few more of the those head shots on the erm,,,, head. The following happened.

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Had a little problem with not being able to read in SQL in from a file and execute it earlier. Solved the problem, turns out php doesnt like executing more than one line of SQL at once so barfs at the ;. So i have exploded the SQL into an array using the ; as the delimeter.
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I have been at work, sorting out a Share Point restore for one of our customers. I started off having no clue about SharePoint, and now feel slightly enlightened.

Points of note:

• SharePoint Portal
  • When installing make sure you create your portal before applying SP1 (STS & SPS)
    • else you may get the “Invalid configuration” on your valid configuration.
    • Whilst the invalid configuration error is present in the SPS administration pages you CANNOT perform restore.
  • When trying to redirecting restores STS sites below your portal. name the DB that same as it was on the original server (This is stupid Symantec should really sort that out)
  • Make sure you have all the web parts & themes installed else you will get alot of scary looking errors
    • This can easyily be achieved if you have a backup of your sharepoint shared dir ( c:/program files/common/microsoft shared/web server component/60 )
      • that path was from memory so please be careful and check.
• Backup Exec
  • When using BackupExec to restore run SGmon.exe (in the program files etc)
  • • This tool will give you actual info about your restore, as apposed to FAILED. This tool proved in valuable highlighting authentication issues
  • When you redirect to you new SharePoint site leave off the trailing slash
    • i.e. http://redirectserver.domain.com

Some resources I noted whilst doing the restore:

• http://tiredblogger.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/migrating-sharepoint-2003-without-spsbackup/  Blog of same “Invalid Config” issue, with a different resolution.
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887164 List of supported topologies
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885263  The hotfix that supposed to cure the “invalid config issue” however was pulled, and put in to SP2 (availble from Microsoft Support, I may post the fix if im allowed)
• http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/190979.htm SGmon.exe if i’d known about this tool years ago, id would of been a happier bunny.
• SPExtract Tool that will strip out all the documents out of a Sharepoint DB,  doesnt appear to care what patch level the DB is at, so can be handy in a crisis. If you have document versioning switched on it will only extract the latest version of that file.

Not a lot going on over here, currently at work I have been seconded in to do a major SharePoint recovery as the in house expert hadn’t managed it. I dont know what to think about the fact I know nothing about SharePoint and was able to spot the issue in 2 days what had previously taken 3 weeks to get no where. Enough ego massage, posting activity can mainly be found at moustacheoff2008.wordpress.com. Our future trip to Tallinn should have some ridiculous pictures. FYI the plan is to shave the chin and go with full on RAF Taches :).

This morning, I flicked on the media centre to listen to some music, browsing to music library and the music is jumping all over the shop. What appeared to be happening, was media centre re scanning my library. This was very annoying particularly as I hadn’t added anything in a couple of months.

So whats the solution, seeing as the wife has gone Christmas shopping, I decided to format the system and install OSx 10.4.9 an uphuck release. bit ott?

• Will it work?
• Will I still be able to use the Imon IR receiver in my case ?

I didnt think this through very well

Its just occured to me if this doesn’t work I’ll have to go back to vista, as my legal XP is installed on my MacBook Pro for playing BF2142 and TF2. hmmm

OK tried twice, first time hung at restart, second Kernel panic’d
DAMMIT!

Plan B Installed Ubuntu 7.10, see If i can use Myth TV as a media centre… Processing please wait……..

Note: This does not work without a service pack, requires Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 at least

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get, PHP to bind to Active Directory with Secure LDAP (LDAPS) on port 636. This is in fact rediculously simple, so I can only assume everyone who’s has worked this out doesn’t want to share it with the rest of us!. Solution

In order to enable connections on LDAPS your domain must have a Root CA installed. Once installed LDAPS is now enabled.

This can be verified if you have the windows 2003 support tools installed and you can use lpd.exe to connect to your server on port 636 with ssl enabled.

Once this is done you can create the following directory:

c:\openldap\sysconf

Note: php seems to be hardcoded to look in that location
Note: also note that openldap is not actually installed

within that directory create a file called ldap.conf with the following line it in:

TLS_REQCERT never

Restart IIS

and you done.

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