Scattered Mind

Everybody knows about “Noah” – picture a day video for six years when he published it on YouTube (in 2007). Was quite an amazing video. This guy really has determination and endurance to keep going. Even though many people made their own parodies from this I see he is still going strong, looking alot older now.

But this post is not for the reason of telling the whole history of this guy and his video, as most of you will already know this.

I just found this Simpsons episode on YouTube that shows Homers’ aging in 39 years ;-). Simply called “Homer does Noah”.

I’ve been taking part in Perdeberg Winery’s Clink-to-Win facebook competition.

I received a message from on of Perdeberg Winery’s representatives on Facebook, asking for my delivery details. Seems like Social Networking is paying of.

Carte Blanche extract last night had some bloggers featured from South Africa and just some nice insightful video about the current changing of habits locally and internationally.

We’ve succesfully rolled out MS Groove within a few business units at the moment, and even our Directors are using it now.

Last week I found that adding a 100MB file in a workspace that has about 10-15 people in.

It knocked down our internet access totally as the relay server were pointing to MS’ relay servers and the file was uploaded and downloaded from the MS servers and NOT peer-to-peer transfers.

We are now looking at way to all workspace members always use the fastest connection available and not draw from the internet …

Tonight I was looking for an upgrade for OpenAds, as I’ve been using it to rotate some Google and advertiser ads on some sites of mine, but to my amazement, OpenAds has been renamed to OpenX … yes – that’s right – been renamed AGAIN!!

Some FAQ on OpenX’s site.

Connected over Horizons – Road Show 2008

brough to you by NetCB Solutions Pty(Ltd)

Novell products and latest security woes with Sharepoint.

Microsoft 2008 Launch Wave

Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 launch

Register here    for SA event.

Heard this song on a Nip ‘n Tuck preview on MNet, got a catchy tune after around 1:00 .

Wow, saw the most awesome laptop today, the IBM Lenovo X60s, small, compact with everything you need for the road.

But why would I need this new laptop…? Well it is actually just a “Nice to have” and not a must have.

My current laptop, which is nearing it’s first birthday, got it May 07, is the IBM Lenovo Z61m, with 2GB memory and is excellent for my mobile, development and gameplay requirements.

At time of purchase it was almost the best on market, and I reckon there are only a few other laptops which can still top this one.

And I only reinstalled once, and this was the week that passed as a result of development stuff that went a bit AWOL.

All ‘n All I’m actually starting to become a Lenovo fan !!! Quality, Stability and Reliability!

After my last post I got a few mails asking me how to reset the Auto Increment ID, or how to set the next ID to a certain value.

Well, here you go:

1. Open up SQL Enterprise/SQL Server Manager
2. Open the relevant database
3. Right click on the relevant table and choose ‘Modify’
4. Select the auto increment / identity column
5. Find the Identification Specification option and expand
   1. Now you can change the Identity seed to the desired value(remember to make it more than the MAX of that column of the current data)

Yesterday, I was onsite at a client where they had some database problems, and had to revert back to one of their backups. For some strange reason they merged two backups(as I can derive from them) together. This caused havoc on the ework database though. I don’t know what the DBA did but for some strange reason you could open up To-Do list items, but not Blank Form items. NO error was logged to the Event Log or could be found in the Services Manager.

First I tried a few test and then it struck me – the FolderID’s was out of sync, as the guy who “merged” the database did not take this into consideration. I tested, and saw it was only the FOLDERID table which’ next ID was too low, and lower as the actual latest entry in the EFOLDER table.

To fix the problem, I just set the next ID(Identity Seed) in SQL Server management Studio for the table FOLDERID to be higher than the last folderid in the EFOLDER table.

This seem to have fixed the problem, though we are still testing to make sure that they did not break any other tables or e-Work core functionality in the data structure.