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Why be clear when you can be confusing?

I’m a long time user of virtual machines, and I’ve grown to like Microsoft Virtual PC – it’s not the greatest, but it seems to just work and is quite easy so why not. Recently I had to look for support of USB devices, and after a bit of searching I was baffled – this [...]

| Posted 19 April 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments Off |

Installing Apache

Ever tried to install Apache and got a funky error message saying something along the lines of “cannot bind to 0.0.0.0:80″? Here’s a quick tip that should be more than 80% accurate: quit Skype before installing Apache. You see, Skype uses port 80 by default for it’s connections. It’s a lame ass trick to get [...]

| Posted 14 April 2010 | Antti | | Comments Off |

Development blog

Oh, btw, if you’re using any of my software – Skuuppi, Toimari or Docman – you might want to check out my development blog at http://blogi.bluerose.fi . It’s all in Finnish, but if you can handle that you may find some interesting tidbits there every now and then. I’m not writing to it every day, [...]

| Posted 08 April 2010 | Antti | | Comments Off |

Installing SQL Server 2008 on 64-bit Windows 7

I bet you didn’t see this coming – a useful piece of information on my bloggamathingie! But here it is anyways, whether you want it or not: If you try to install SQL Server 2008 on a 64-bit Windows 7, you may get weird error messages about window handles not being created because they have [...]

| Posted 30 March 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Time goes by, whooosh, there it went…

I just found an invoice of what I believe is the first software sale – as in software I have programmed and then sold – I have made. It’s from 1987. Whoa. I was a young guy then – so, what, does that make me an old guy now?

| Posted 04 March 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments (2) |