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Archive for December, 2007
Have a good one
Dec 31st
Maija and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a great new year’s celebration, followed by an excellent 2008!
We’re thoroughly enjoying our holiday. We’ve had the chance to hang out with almost all of the people that mean something to me, so that’s great. If we haven’t hung out with you and I mean something to you, give us a call :)
We’ve also been sampling all the good foodz, and have been loving the fine weather. Yesterday was a lot of volleyball and swimming. Also been playing a lot of Settlers, yes! Today might bring wakeboarding. The More >
Moving your WSUS 3 database
Dec 20th
I had need to move the database my Windows Server Update Services is using from the Windows Internal Database to my full SQL Server (2005). Following are my steps:
1. Microsoft Article on the steps required, I used this as a guide, but as I had already installed WSUS, I had to vary things a bit.
2. Enabling Nested Triggers on your SQL 2005 database
How to: Configure the nested triggers Option (SQL Server Management Studio) Use the nested triggers option to control whether an AFTER trigger can cascade; that is, perform an action that initiates another trigger, which initiates another trigger, and so More >
Safely “home”
Dec 14th
We’re there! Our bodies are thoroughly confused, but we’re safe and sound. And eating delicious pies!
Hong Kong down, almost there…
Dec 13th
So we end up in this hotel right, in Porvo? Turns out it’s a spa; quite a luxurious place. I spent the morning in the sauna, steam room, swimming pool and hot tub. In that order. Nice little bonus that was.
We eventually got back to Helsinki Vantaa and checked in once more. But lo, mysteriously our bags are now far too heavy! The new flights Finnair have us booked on have a checked baggage weight limit of 20kg each. I did my best to persuade the staff that the woman the night before had seen fit to take our bags More >
So close…
Dec 11th
We were doing so well. We were at the airport nice and early, met some friends (one of whom was traveling at the same time as we were), found out said friends had just got engaged (congratulations Satu and Tukka!). Then we checked in, waited around, did some shopping, the usual drill. Only to find out our flight to Frankfurt was delayed, at first “indefinitely”, and then finally by 2 hours. Just sufficient to ruin all our connecting flights.
We could go to Frankfurt anyway, but there’s no other flights to Sydney, they’re all full. There’s only 3 of us needing More >
On our way to New Zealand
Dec 11th
Final mix of the year, Goodbye 07
Dec 10th
I know it’s early, I normally save this till New Year’s, but that’s not gonna work this year. This is probably my favourite mix yet, the stuff I picked up this year just blows my mind. Please, download, spread it around.
From the mix page:
The annual New Year’s mix is a little early this year as I’ll be in NZ for New Year’s and am not bringing my gear. But early’s good in this case, cause this mix is a real treat! 2007 has brought us some great music; I just can’t get enough of Joonas Hahmo (2 tracks here, More >
Asterisk bows beneath my puny fist
Dec 3rd
Not Asterix… he bows before no fist. But Asterisk… also known as *. Also known as the world’s most popular open source PBX (private branch exchange). Basically it’s a phone server, like office’s have. Except this one’s open source and free, runs on all sorts of hardware, and is almost limitless in it’s configuration options (hence the *).
Before we left Canada I rented a 416 number from DIDWW. At first I used it as a Skype-IN number, due to Skype not natively having Canadian numbers. This didn’t work out so well however, as calls would often end up mysteriously nowhere. More >