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with the following error:-

Microsoft VBScript runtime  error '800a01a8'

Object required: 'xmlRoot'

/admin_dir/xmlsubs.asp, line 477

I believe this is something to do with editing a post from a previous month, when there are no posts for the current month. The scripts are possibly looking for an archive file for the current month and it doesn’t exist, so the XMLRoot object is not created.

sometimes I think I don’t deserve a career in IT – I just spent a good half an hour completely stumped as to how to change the keyboard mapping from US to UK on a win XP box!

To do this, go to control panel ->regional and language options->languages->text services and input languages

obvious when you look at it, but could I find it?

I always seem to find myself coming up against the same problems, fixing them then forgetting how I did it when I get the same problem. Hopefully by logging problems here it will help me remember, and help out other people at the same time

I installed windows XP today and could not get my mentor PCMCIA PCMLAN10/100 fast ethernet network card to work using downloaded drivers from the vendors website.

I searched around the web a bit and found loads of other people with the same problem. It turns out that there are different versions of this card, and what looks like the same card is different.

I eventually got it working by digging out the original diskette that came with the card and pointing XP at the w2k driver on that – now working fine (so far).

If you have found this via a search and are having the same problem, and your card is recognised by the machine as “PCMCIA Fast-Ethernet” then you need the original drivers, rather than the ones on the mentor site.

If you are looking for linux information for the same card – I have had this card working under linux too

After a lot of messing around I have managed to get the w.bloggar v3.00 interface working so I can blog straight from the desktop.

I’ve been reading about mobile blogging, and whilst I don’t have a fancy phone with pictures etc, it would be quite nice to have a way to make text postings. My phone (sony j5e) has ms mobile explorer – a wap and basic HTML browser, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to build a simplified HTML interface which works with blogworks.

Ideally I should learn more about the blogger API and have it speak to this rather than directly to the files – possibly making it more universal.

ongoing experiment…..

I’ve been listening to radio paradise “eclectic intelligent rock”. It’s certainly eclectic, mostly intelligent but not that much rock to be honest, but I am grateful to have been introduced to about 10 new artists (well new to me).

The laptop now has two versions of linux on it – I have installed suse 7.2 on a virtual machine within virtual PC on top of windows, which works surprisingly well and a red hat linux 8.0 on a seperate partition, which I am also impressed with.

The Linux install on top of windows might sound stupid to some people, but the idea is that I can experiment with it, even setting up several virtual machines and simulate networking between them, all the while without having to reboot the host machine, and being able to surf and use newsgroups when I get stuck.

The “proper” red hat linux install is great, but I haven’t used it much because I am hooked on certain windows only apps at the moment…

I downloaded a trial of this today:-

http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/

It’s a client based collaborative web authoring system. I haven’t had a proper experiment with it yet, but looks like it might be a useful alternative to a “proper” server based CMS for giving people the ability to update content on their own sites.