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15th-Jun-2005 05:47 pm - More stuff..
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First, a fun haiku after a couple of tries:

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:syllopsium
Your haiku:will get geese landing
it in instead of having
the internet.
Username:
Created by Grahame


In other news, after the success at work yesterday I celebrated by buying some more spices for cooking (Saffron is *so* expensive, although when you find out how it's harvested - it's not that surprising), more tidying and installing OpenBSD 3.7 (for a new release has been out for a month) on the firewall to be. This used the '10 minute pub' method - stick installation floppy into ancient 486, fiddle with BIOS, see it detect the PnP ISA 3C509 cards, answer five minutes of questions, then go to the pub for a pint whilst it's downloading the data. Come back, answer which timezone you're in and it's done! ok, it's only installed, actually configuring will take significantly longer.
17th-May-2005 01:41 pm - [geek] boring techie post... transactions in SQL2000. bah.
cairowhine, cateye, Peenorama, bicon2006, Bifest, Scaroth, toaster, foodgasm, eye, carwash, scorchio!, pussyshall, mavishorn
MS SQL2000 supports row locking by default, but this 'can be upgraded to page locking' based on some mysterious algorithm. Guess what's happening?

Thread 1 updates message number 88589 in a transaction
Thread 2 updates message number 88595 in a transaction

both at the same second. *boom* 'Transaction (Process ID 58) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim'.
more annoyance at fecking ADO and SQL )
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