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JustBlogIt 0.1 Comments Off

Now using the JustBlogIt plugin with Firefox 1.0.

Thinking of adding this to the essential list of FF plugins.

Valentina Zelyaeva – Pirelli Calendar Girl, September 2005 Comments Off

Valentina Zelyaeva – Pirelli Calendar Girl, September 2005

Valentina Zelyaeva

More here Style.com.

Sky Movies canned Comments Off

This evening, I downgraded my Sky TV subscription package and switched to a DVD rental service: ScreenSelect. £14/mo. unlimited rentals, “UK’s widest selection Over 26,500 titles”.
Looks good.

Eclipse: locked workspace Comments Off

Eclipse fails after the “Splash Screen” (and before “Select Workspace”) with a pop-up dialog saying “workspace is locked”.

To fix: kill the Java process(es) in the task manager. Go to run -> cmd (DOS prompt).
Delete the configuration dir and try the workaround using:

-vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none

e.g.

C:eclipse>eclipse.exe -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none

Avoiding HTTP 400 error, "cgi.force_redirect = 0" Comments Off

cgi.force_redirect = 0

PHP 4.3.9 under IIS threw up a nasty HTTP 400 error. I found the solution(s) here.

IIS CGI configuration:

  • Use C:phpphp-cgi.exe, instead of php5isapi.dll … and Check “Check that file exists”.
  • In php.ini set: cgi.force_redirect = 0 {Otherwise, an HTTP 400 error will result.}

Useful tips.

PHP IDE: Welcome Eclipse. Comments Off

Files:

eclipse-platform-3.0.1-win32.zip
j2re-1_4_2_05-windows-i586-p.exe
PHPEclipse1.1.1-2004-10-24.zip

install to c:/

It seems a lot better than Zend Studio. Tighter interface, faster to run: without the bugs.

IIS, Firefox, Eclipse HTTP 401.3 problem Comments Off

IIS “HTTP 401.3 – Access denied by ACL on resource”

When moving folders and files in and out of your webroot, especially Virtual Directories? Running into problems where attempting to access these folders and/or files and you getting a username/password dialog – especially Netscape, Mozilla…Eclipse IDE?

That’s because these folders and files don’t have the “everyone” group assigned security rights to them. so, add the “everyone” group. If this is not available, as in the case on my laptop, try adding just the current user.

Right-click the most top-level object that’s not assigned to the “everyone” group, choose properties. Go to the security tab. Click the add button. Find the “everyone” group from the list above and it to the list below.

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