Shuttle has been the de-facto SFF PC for some time now, it’s not difficult to see why. The cases are small, elegant and I believe most importantly – customisable to an extent (i.e. you can select from various standard components to build a machine).
However with the advent of the Mac Mini, Shuttles are starting to [...]
I was posed an interesting problem today, a colleague was debugging some Visual Basic 6 code, and coming across the following error:-
“Run-time error ‘3001′: The application is using arguments that are of the wrong type, are out of acceptable range, or are in conflict with one another.”
The error was occuring when assigning the ‘ActivateConnection’ property:-
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I recently upgraded my ageing Pioneer DVR-106D DVD/CD burner, to something a little more up-to-date, a Philips SPD3200 external USB2 unit. Simultaneously, I upgraded Nero to version 7.
The writing speed boost for DVDs is bliss, 4x to 16x is a sizable leap. That’s not to say the drive hasn’t been without problems, this is the [...]
I remember all too well wrestling with all sorts of versions of system DLLs under Win3.1. Even resorting to dynamic loads and ‘GetProcAddress’ to determine exactly what my program might be about to do. I thought it was all in the past…..
I’ve been beavering away with a smallish development team developing a new product which, [...]
This is a guide intended to cover the basics of PlusNet’s ccgi server and it’s perculiarities. It is not a guide to cover installation of any specific package, although the information here can be used to successfully install packages such as PhpBB, WordPress, Gallery and many others.
Activation
By default you do not have any CCGI space [...]
Every now and again some bright spark comes up with a simple idea that really does rock.
Like many people I’m sure, I work on Windows 99% of the time. However much you want to knock Microsoft, it really is still the platform of choice for most purposes. In my case, I’ve little choice anyway, it [...]
