Anith Gopal

I recently heard from some users who are seeing lower-than-expected scores on the Speed Reading and FishIE Tank benchmarks. I went to check these tests myself and found that my laptop’s score was low

As browser users go, I’m pretty savvy. I’ve been on the IE team for nearly half a decade, and I’ve been writing browser extensions for twice as long. I read networking source code for entertainment, I spend my free time writing a web debugger , and I maintain an IE troubleshooting guide for folks who encounter common problems

Something’s rotten in Cupertino, and Apple fans running the 3.0 firmware are beginning to get anxious as a result. I’m talking about push notifications, of course, which have yet to dazzle and amaze most iPhone owners running 3.0.

The full error is Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.Objects’ with unique index ‘IX_Objects_ClassId_ParentId_Name’, and this occurs when trying to provision a new PWA site in a farm.  Some background first, and then the workaround.  In the February CU we added a fix for the “waiting for resources” problems customers had run into when trying to provision new PWA sites.  This was caused by a missing timer job.  The fix checked for the timer job, and if it wasn’t found it was created – which for most of our customers was a perfect fix. However, for customers running multiple language versions (MUIs), or even just non US English versions it could fail to detect the timer job and think it was missing and try to re-create it – which led to the error! My colleague Aik had been working on this problem and had a couple of workarounds we’d shared with customers and these turned up back in my blog comments a couple of days ago (Thanks Jose!) – so I thought the time was right for a full posting.  So here are the workarounds – with option #1 being the favored one as it has the least impact on the users of the server: Option #1 – Delete sync jobs before provisioning site To delete a timer definition job, find the Job ID by going to the Sharepoint Central Administration site | Operations | Timer Job Definitions Look for the Project Server sync jobs and right click on the links and select Copy Link – the default names for the jobs (in English) will be something like Project Server Synchronizing job for ‘SharedServices1’. Paste the link into Notepad and the link will look something like this: :/_admin/JobEdit.aspx?JobId=57b935d4%2Db43f%2D4dc4%2Dbd9c%2Dc74bb000b9c6">http://<servername>:<Central Admin Port>/_admin/JobEdit.aspx?JobId=57b935d4%2Db43f%2D4dc4%2Dbd9c%2Dc74bb000b9c6 Copy out just the JobId section and replace the text "%2D" with a dash e.g – Once you are done your GUID should look like the following based on the example above: 57b935d4-b43f-4dc4-bd9c-c74bb000b9c6 Run the following command with the jobID

I’m quite certain that more people are trying to cure Swine Flu than will every catch it.

OK, this has nothing to do with Microsoft Dynamics GP or Dexterity or even work, but I thought I would tell you guys about the saga I had over the Easter break. Last week, I mentioned that I was going to take some time away over Easter, see Happy Easter and Request for Topics .

Sound is broken in Foresight Linux 2.0.4 and above.  This is a sporadic problem…but I know that most HDA Intel Sigmatel chipsets are having this problem (like the one on my Dell D630 Latitude).  It is my understanding that this is a kernel based problem…and if it is, the last 4 released kernels onto Foresight Linux 2 stable branch have not fixed sound. I was able to backpedal to the 2.6.27.5-3 kernel and had all of my sound problems automagically fix.  I’m not sure what the problem is, nor how to fix it…but I do know that I’m not the only one with sound problems as of late.  I also know that no one is motivated to fix things right now…as a developer in Foresight, I have heard nothing about a fix for this problem and even my own bug postings have went without comment.