Don’t need to say much really, 13th October. John Peel Day.

Had an issue where a Windows NT4 server needed to have CF MX 6.1 installed on it. That all went fine, problem came when the 6.1 updater was attempted to be installed. The issue presented itself by the updater installer seemingly hanging on the 3rd screen, just before you click OK to preceed.

The issue is with the OS (NT4) not supporting DirectDraw (per Tech Support needs DirectX v8.1 or greater). You can get the updater to work though by specifying an environment variable to tell Java to not use 3d drawing and only use 2d.

You can set this value by right-clicking on “My computer”, then:

Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables

Add a “New…” variable in “System variables” section, Variable Name is “_JAVA_OPTIONS” and the Variable Value set to “-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true”

Hit apply and try running the installer again.

Got my new Sony Ericsson K750i today and as a result been looking for apps, themes etc. Here’s some links for you:

myK750
http://www.se-themes.net

and for information

Esato

As the battle for earth imaging continues a Flash entry. This combines both the ability to look at google earth and msn earth in a cool flash interface. Shows what flash can do quite well.

Neave Lab ? Flash Earth

If you want a print of a tiger, N64 with games or a portable DVD player and live in the UK, take a look at my eBay page to see the one’s I’m selling.

Ta!

You’ve probably heard by now the “london underground” song, if you haven’t and live in the UK you need to. Point your browser and amateur transplants site, the home of the song.

The album arrived in the post the other day and now I’ve listened to it a couple of times it really is very very good. They say it’s likely to offend which it might, only the language really, wouldn’t suggest playing to anyone under the age of 15!

Go and support these 2 guys by buying the album, and no, I’m not on commision.

Shameless plug, but hey, I don’t care. Just finished a re-design of a holiday villa site for a friend or a friend. It’s a lovely villa as well, reasonable rates =D

Tranquil Lanzarote Country Villas Holiday – Tenerife

I think this guy might be making his feedback up?

No sign of Road Runner or Wile. E. Coyote but there is a link to the very handy ACME Guide – Apache, ColdFusion MX 7, MySQL and Eclipse

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Well it’s update time again, Google seemed to have stopped mucking about now and office-humour.co.uk is back up at number 3 for a search for “humour”, it was at 2 but seems be jumping about a bit right now.

There are some changes coming as well, nothing major really. The backend is getting a makeover to make it a bit more efficient and also the layout is being redone into CSS which should make it a bit lighter and quicker.

It’s also going to become part of the office-hours.co.uk network along with office-games.co.uk and a few new sites which will be reering their heads very soon (hopefully!).

As always if you’ve got any suggestions for the site please let us know.