I love this info graphic on SPAM from Rackspace.
Category Archives: Computers
PayPal now in SA
If you’re a South African FNB online banking customer then you probably already know this, if not you can read more about it here on FNB’s Website. This is particularly cool for people who want to sell goods and services overseas.
Obviously there is is a lot of “legal red tape” and hoops you’ll need to jump through, in particular with SARS (South Africa Revenue Service) and the South Africa Reserve Bank, but who cares SA has now finally got PayPal.
Now to come up with some new cool service that I can receive millions of dollars for. I wonder how many people are going to switch to FNB because of this service?
For More info
Simple FAQ on FNB’s website
PayPal website info.
“Literally”
Watching “How I met your mother” again, I was reminded about the correct use of literally as Ted spends a lot of the show correcting people’s use of the word. I know that I’m often guilty of mis-using the word while talking about things and even in posts on this blog.
This website tracks online abuse of the word, always fun to see I’m not alone in my abuse of the word.
Super Secret Project Pt 2
As I explained in Part 1, I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife).
Don?t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she?ll read all this and anyway she?s unlikely to puzzle out what I?m up too, but because I don?t want her to know what I?m building I?m going to stick to describing the technology and tools I?m using and show snippets of code but try not give it all away.
Super Secret Project Pt 1
I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife), the coding for the project has been done in C# using Mono on my Windows Vista laptop, although the plan is to run the code on Linux.
Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to puzzle out what I’m up too, but because I don’t want her to know what I’m building I’m going to stick to describing the technology and tools I’m using and show snippets of code but try not give it all away.
There, I Fixed It
If you’ve never seen this website do yourself a favour and go check it out.
There, I Fixed It – Is a website that shows off some of the more “creative” fixes that people have done. Not all of them are?ridiculous?occasionally?there is a good smart one but most of them you’re just waiting for it to go completely wrong.
Quickbooks 2006 on Windows Small Business Server 2003
This morning we had a problem and needed to get Quickbooks 2006 running on Windows Small Business Server 2003, after the install we kept getting the following error when you tried to launch Quickbooks.
Error: Quickbooks failed to load required file!
A bit of searching online only turned up one forum entry where someone mentions that they got round the error by right clicking and choosing “Run As” and running it as there current user. Continue reading
Google app status dashboard
Not sure if you know about this one, came across it a while back. This link gives you a dashboard view showing you the current status of the Google Apps and if they’re experiencing any problems along with details of when the problem will be fixed. Useful if you rely on Google Apps a lot.
SQL – Find all triggers in a MS SQL database.
This script will find all the triggers in a Microsoft SQL database, its come in handy when I’ve been trying to work out where in the system people have tied there code into. I’m not a huge fan of triggers as they tend to make things behave unpredictably, its even worse if you don’t know there is a trigger or where it is.
SELECT S2.[name] TableName, S1.[name] TriggerName, CASE WHEN S2.deltrig = s1.id THEN 'Delete' WHEN S2.instrig = s1.id THEN 'Insert' WHEN S2.updtrig = s1.id THEN 'Update' END 'TriggerType' , 'S1',s1.*,'S2',s2.* FROM sysobjects S1 JOIN sysobjects S2 ON S1.parent_obj = S2.[id] WHERE S1.xtype='TR'
Found this little script on this site.
Lego Matrix
If you haven’t seen this clip yet you have to go check it out, these guys recreated a scene from the Matrix using only Lego. They even did bullet time!
It’s such an awesome video clip.
Check it out including how they made it at the Official Lego Matrix website.