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Warhammer Online

I recently bought the game Warhammer Online – Age or Reckoning, a MMORPG which is based on the popular table top game – Warhammer. Website here: http://www.war-europe.com/ Now I was seriously tempted to buy WoW, but instead went for WAR. I am now wondering if I am going to get into this game or not. [...]

Read Committed Snapshot In SQL Server 2005

Why do it? Once concurrency on a database reaches a certain level the chances of deadlocks increase. Whenever a deadlock occurs there will be at least one transaction that is a victim. Deadlocks also have a negative effect on performance. What about protection of data Without going into detail (see further reading below) READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT provides [...]

N810 Internet Connection with Sony K850i

I’ve been trying to get my N810 Internet Tablet (which is a very handy device) working with my SE K850i mobile phone. My network provider is Vodafone and I have a decent data account on it, so I thought why not, ill make use of the tablets large screen and excellent MicroB web browser via [...]

Aptana Studio 1.1 JVM Exit Code=1

Ok, so my Aptana crashed. And then wouldn’t load (the JVM exited when loading and I was left with a splash screen). I tried renaming the jre directory in the Aptana Program Files folder as suggested in the Aptana FAQ, but no joy. So I did a little digging and found this : http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?p=22803&sid=c2bd9586a773ff9be69c4b6e84d33d12 This [...]

Ever want to change CSV to vCard…

Well I did, and it ate up a lot of time.. until I found this site: http://homepage.mac.com/phrogz/CSV2vCard_v2.html Enjoy!

WebRequest Proxy Authentication

I have a client application written in C# and I use a Web Reference to a SOAP webservice. Now this works fine on my development machine – and indeed it continued to work fine, up until I tested it from behind a proxy. Many hours of searching MSDN and Google later I was a little [...]