Archive for March 12th, 2010

Creating a Local WLS 10.3.2 Domain

Friday, March 12th, 2010
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While setting up a new project this morning I was reminded of a somewhat counter-intuitive sequence when setting up a local environment (even with the simple Pointbase install). When you get to this screen:

Clicking Next will give you this warning:

Just click OK. The database isn’t running at this time.

And, for those who haven’t upgraded in a while and don’t read the manual, you will want to click Run Scripts when you see this screen:

After the wizard completes, look for the create_db.cmd in the domain root and run it before starting the server. The first start, the server will have problems starting. Let it run until nothing is spit into the console anymore, then kill it and start it again. This time it should come up.

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Blue Screen Haiku

Friday, March 12th, 2010
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Ed note: This was posted on my old site in 2004. Every time you think we are making progress in computing, read this :)

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages:

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

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