Saturday, August 30, 2014

PhoneGap build restricting rotation to landscape or portrait

If you are like me and had a hell of time trying to lock the rotation of you app on android on PhoneGap Build.

Try adding this to your config.xml


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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Disable "Your browser has been upgraded" message after upgrading IE

You can prevent the "Your browser has been upgraded" window from appearing in IE.
Create this registry Reg_Dword, give it value of 1.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main\IE9TourShown


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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

George Brandis contradicts Malcolm Turnbull over piracy crackdown payments

Using the same logic RMS (formerly RTA) should have to pay for crime and drug enforcement because crime and drug users use our roads, RMS must be unwitting facilitators too. Farmers should pay for diabetes management  because the food they produce is consumed by consumers who go on to get diabetes.



Perhaps I should call my local Internet 'Facilitator' and ask for a comment?



George Brandis contradicts Malcolm Turnbull over piracy crackdown payments: "''Obviously ISPs don't want to pay to make a contribution,'' Senator Brandis told The Australian. ''Their argument is that, 'Well, we're the innocent bystander'.

''Well, they're not an innocent bystander because they are an unwitting facilitator. We expect the ISPs to make a contribution to the cost of administrating the scheme. No side in this debate can pretend that it is uninvolved.''"



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Friday, August 01, 2014

Issues installing SQL 2008 R2 SP update

We recently had issues installing an SP update on an SQL server. Someone along the way had configured a registry key that was blocking the upgrade.
I could fix it myself, under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Update Services\Server\Setup I changed the value for the "wYukonInstalled" key from 1 to 0 and the updater didn't look for the Windows Internal Database anymore.

Upgrade SCE to SP1 fails:

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