I’ve had the “pleasure” to play with SharePoint again, wow. What a monster that is. For all good intentions and purposes, it’s still a huge pile of steaming… you know what.
I noticed it was filling logs with tons and tons of same error message, something about timer job not being able to start because a previous instance was still running. After hours of searching, I found ridiculous ideas like “just disable logging” – as if that would be a solution.
But then there was a gem: I’m running this particular SP instance in a Hyper-V virtual machine, and someone else reported a similar problem when running in a VMWare virtual machine. Their solution was to disable time syncing between the host and the VM, and what do you know, Hyper-V has a similar thingie.
Disabled that, and hey presto – waaaaaay less entries in the log.
Now, I’m ok with having to do this kind of shit over and over and over again, but only to a point. Some day I would just like to get these things to a) work and b) give out meaningful errormessages and c) have proper friggin’ documentation to solve these problems. Blech.
Excellent movie, This Must Be The Place. Strongly recommended to anyone who would want a break from all the action and blowing things up and fighting and shouting and car chases. Me likey.
So, I’m trying to do a few reports on a .net app. Nothing fancy-pancy, just some basic list with a few groupings and perhaps a graphic or two. Since Visual Studio comes with the ReportViewer control, and since it looks quite enough for my needs, I thought I’d try it. I’ve used it before, so it took me about 5 minutes to make a simple listing report.
Which failed to run because it apparently ran out of memory. System.OutOfMemoryException. Yeah right. That’s like 10.000 records, 5 fields. Since when is that enough to even mention?
I tested a few 3rd party tools, ranging from free to a whopping 300 USD, and all of them managed the same data without it even registering in memory usage really. It’s peanuts. It’s like a drop of water in a bucket. But ReportViewer just can’t hanldle it, no matter how I tried.
Seriously, what’s the point in releasing a component like that, that basically can’t be used? Blech.
So, a newspaper site I frequently read has comments enabled for all the news. Nothing special, everyplace else has, too. I don’t usually read them, but today I had a stroke of boredom and checked out some comments to a news item on a storm that we had. Here are the comments, from memory:
SomeGuy: Pretty cool.
mr_x: Yea hehe
Kitty: x)
Peter F: ah bananas!
Oldie goldie: ditto!!!
Social media is mostly touted as the biggest, most earth-shattering thing in our lives that will change everything. I’m not sure I agree, or even want to agree, based on that small sample alone. And from what I can tell, most of the “content” seems to be of similar “quality”. Whatever happened to punctuation or complete sentences, let alone writing something that has any sort of meaning? Or, maybe I’m too late in the game, maybe that ship has already sailed and this is all we have left.
Ever seen the film Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)?
Interestingly, I don’t think I’ve evere been here before. Flew in to Düsseldorf yesterday evening and drove to… Wintervijk, maybe? Looks a lot like.. home, funny enough, when I look through the window. Parking lot outside could be from just about any old neighbourhood in Finland. Oh well. Cheers!
