Chronicals of… a developer in Johannesburg

One of two ways:

1st in their group:
53 28/06 16:00 Durban 1E - 2F
57 02/07 16:00 Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth W53 - W54
61 06/07 20:30 Cape Town W58 - W57
64 11/07 20:30 Johannesburg W61 - W62

2nd in their group:
55 29/06 16:00 Tshwane/Pretoria 1F - 2E
60 03/07 20:30 Johannesburg W55 - W56
62 07/07 20:30 Durban W59 - W60
64 11/07 20:30 Johannesburg W61 - W62

See http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/kostage.html

This is how to fix it. Please comment if I have helped you.

One of my client’s printers is a bit faulty and the HP repair centre couldn’t repair it. So I am going to take it upon myself to follow instructions from another blog on how to clean the laser lenses… updates will follow….

Here is the first update: Found the original blog, and an HP support forum both mentioning the same issue.

The issue is the MAGENTA colour printing faded colours.

HP forum

Reeves-Hall

I put in double links because sometimes the thumbnails don’t generate…

UPDATE:

I opened up the machine I had and fixed the issue. A little bit of dust on the lens and mirror was the culprit.

On the Reeves link, it took the guy quite a while, I managed to get it all done in under two hours. Also, you don’t necessarily need to take off the side panels – I did do it, but one could probably get away without taking them off.

Marking of the cables is important, I just used a fine tipped permanent market to colour the cable corresponding to the positioning. I counted positions 1 to 6, and then made the mark on the relevant cable.

I added the quote from HP’s official repair place. The quote is higher than the price of a new printer. And it was for something that isn’t even broken!

See the pictures below

Sometimes we need to restore a database off someone else’s BAK file. If you dont do it often or have never done it, then here is how.

I like SQL Management Studio.

1. Create a new database with the name you want.
2. Right click that database and then go to Tasks -> Restore -> Database
3. In the new dialog, enter your database name, and select the backup file at the bottom.
   — Now here comes the trick —
4. Go to the options tab and select “Overwrite the Existing Database”, and select new paths to restore the files to (usually your default SQL folders).

The script to do this can be generated and here it is:

RESTORE DATABASE [q2g_dev]
FROM  DISK = N’D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\q2g_live MS SQL 2005.bak’
WITH  FILE = 1,
MOVE N’quip2go_Data’ TO N’D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\q2g_dev.mdf’,
MOVE N’quip2go_Log’ TO N’D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\q2g_dev_log.ldf’,
NOUNLOAD,
REPLACE,
STATS = 10
GO

SQL Database Restore Options

Enjoy. Use your database names instead of mine

YAY!

Last night we had 5 min of rain. Taryn and I stood in it. It was good.

I bought spore yesterday.

What a cool game… I made a creature and did the stuff till tribal phase, but my creature wasn’t that fantastic, so now I have started a new planet with a new uber creature!

It’s awesome. I am looking forward to seeing other user’s planets

Cape town got the 3rd most votes for the world Monopoly game! So we are the last green space ^5 to CT.

Game will be released globally on 26th Aug 2008.

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