http://www.interversal.co.uk The business of web Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:22:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Ok, I tried installing Web Developer Express 2008. and Visual Studio 2008, and they kept on flunking out. Web Dev couldn't install the patch for KB ... and Visual Studio couldn't install Document Explorer 2008 cause it couldn't find dexplore.exe Nothing worked. So I downloaded the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and went ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/08/30/when-visual-studio-2008-just-wont-install/   Netscape 2.02, possibly the finest browser ever seen. It had everything, frames, marque text, blinky stuff. Almost perfect, IMHO all browsers since have been a poor imitation. I wonder if there's anyone else out there who thinks so? Anyone who may have also knocked up a wordpress theme, to look like ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/05/05/netscape-202-wordpress-theme/   I bought the 4PSA Total Backup for Plesk some time ago for my Plesk server. Of course, 1 week before I was due to retire the server, it crashed. I had to reimage, and then came the nail biting task of restoring it. But I had a few errors, I installed ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/04/14/4psa-tbrestore-from-total-backup-for-plesk-phew/   Ok, here's the command I use to exclude .zip files from my zips zip -r *.zip myzipfile directorytozip -x "*.zip" http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/31/zip-excluding-zip-files-with-zip-x/   Working on one's own sites is much more fun that other peoples. The Internet is huge, and SEO is fascinating. I know where the rest of my life is going to be spent :)   PS Googling 'fascinating' is fascinating.     http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/27/i-cant-look-away/   Well, I've been working with Making Plans Ltd for about 4 years now. They're nice people, honest, and make good employers. If you're ever in the market for a Floor Plan for your home, you know, like the ones they have on posters in Real Estate windows, these ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/27/my-friends-the-floor-plan-drawers/       I had an external hard drive crash last year, and recently, we had an external hard drive case fail in the office. So, I decided to marry the two remaining components in a fit of screws and twisted metal. Why twisted metal? Because, as I found out, just swapping out hard ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/26/we-made-this-hard-just-to-mock-you/   I've done years of MS Acccess development, for private and government departments. And from a user perspective, there's always one key bit of advise I give everyone when they get in to trouble. "Make a mistake, hit Escape'. "Then hit it again, and again". You'd be amazed how many problems this solves. So, ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/23/ms-access-the-best-advice-for-users-is/   Well, the simplest way, is just to pop3 all of the mail to a mailbox on a hard drive, then just upload it all to an IMAP set up on the new mailbox, very simple. In fact, even simpler, is if they are both IMAP, and just drag all the mail ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/23/migrating-mailboxes/ Ok, this one took me a while to figure out, after stuffing around with all sorts of .htaccess files, and being certain that mod_rewrite was in fact on, I was ready to give up. I was seeing: Error 500, server config error and all sorts. I knew I'd gotten some wordpress blogs ... http://www.interversal.co.uk/2008/03/23/htaccess-problem-on-1and1-11-managed-server-and-joomlamambo/