I run my own DNS for some of my domains. My primary DNS is the built-in DNS service in Windows 2003 SP1 and as backup/secondary DNS I’m using a free service from Twisted4Life. I’ve been using SPF for a couple of years and it has been working fine.(SPF – Sender Policy Framework – is way… Continue reading Windows DNS fails with SPF/TXT too long
Month: April 2007
SQL Server 2005 SP2 killed my web sites
A few days ago I was visiting my web server (running Windows 2003). Windows Update prompted me to install the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 update so I went ahead and clicked ok to do that. Yesterday I was surfing thru my web sites and realized that some of my web sites running on… Continue reading SQL Server 2005 SP2 killed my web sites
Unable to convert MySQL date/time value to System.DateTime
After switching from MySQL ODBC driver to the .NET connector I have been getting this error: Unable to convert MySQL date/time value to System.DateTime. This is when a DATETIME or DATE field contains an invalid value. It turns out that 0000-00-00 which I have used as default value in a DATE column is considered an… Continue reading Unable to convert MySQL date/time value to System.DateTime
Vista and World Community Grid
I haven’t been able to get the World Community Grid (WCG) client (United Devices UD.EXE) to run well on my Vista machine. It has been running for awhile then giving me messages like “Unable to process Task data. Backing-off.” I have Googled but not found a solution. Then today I went directly to the World… Continue reading Vista and World Community Grid
.NET and MySQL in Five Easy Steps
I’ve been using the MySQL ODBC driver for a long time now in my ASP.NET projects (as posted about here). But today when I was about to start a new project on my new Vista machine I thought I’d check if anything new had emerged the last years when it comes to MySQL drivers for… Continue reading .NET and MySQL in Five Easy Steps