While playing with the iPhone and all of the third party apps, there have been numerious occasions where either the app dumps or the phone does.
FYI: when I went to publish this blog with the Wordpress app, the app took a shit =)
With some of the developers, they got a little whitty with there error controlls. Here’s a couple that I liked:
After I jailbroke my iPhone, my Push Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Bookmarks stopped syncing. The reason was because all my mail settings were reset. So I simply switched them all to sync. Didn’t work. I tried all kinds of stuff to try and get my accounts to sync from me.com, but nothing worked. Rebooted, toggled the switches a few more times… nothing.
What finally did it was to delete the MobileMe account completely, power the device off, power it on, and then re-add the MobileMe account. Sure enough, my iPhone was once again in sync with me.com. =)
.: Adam
We need more sane people on TV.
Around 4:45pm, I was able to witness the most beautiful sight! Something that I’ve been wanting to see. Scratch that, something I needed to see for over 2 weeks now.
For over 2 weeks straight. Literally, all day, all night, and sometimes overnight all-nighters, I spent trying to figure out the database issue that has been causing so many problems with BodyMod.org.
For all this time, my DB server would run at 100% CPU utilization, and with throwing up errors that only returned 3 sites to troubleshoot from in Google. I tried everything. I rewrote my code (a whole hell of a lot), converted a lot of my sql statements in code to stored procedures, added more ram to the server, changed pagefile settings, messed with IIS settings, modified database connecting code, added / messed with connection pooling though .NET to my DB server, created new indexes, reindexed the old ones, changed network configurations, changed database security privileges, installed countless patches, defragged the drive, and tried every server hack under the sun to get it to work. I ran the SQL Analyzer, profiler, tuning wizard. Nothing.
My web server would run nicely for about 1.5 - 2.5 hours and then shit the bed with constant ‘Insufficient memory to run that query’ statements to a point where the database services would just seize and die. This of course required me to login and start it manually (the automatic “fail-safes” never kicked in). On top of that, my error logs would have this message 20-30 times per second(!) for an entire day. We’re talking log files in the GB range:
2008-01-17 03:41:48.43 spid The query notification dialog on conversation handle '{GUID}.' closed due to the following error: '-8470Remote service has been dropped.
I am posting this so that if anyone else has this problem, you’ll know what to do. The fix? Reinstall SQL server. Yep. I backed it all up, wiped it out, and reinstalled it from scratch. Don’t just unmount and then attach the DB’s either. Backup, then Restore.
What did I finally get after all this BS? The most beautiful site…
I guess the good that came of this is that I now have an extremely fine tuned website, I know more about SQL memory management than I would ever need to know, I can trace a SQL server like a champ, and I learned how to create stored procedures. So I guess it’s not all doom and gloom, even though there was a point where I was just going to flip the switch and say “fuck it” (after I’d been up about 48+ hours straight staring at SQL Logs and a green wavey line about a centimeter higher than would have preferred.)
I’m also hoping that it stays this way. I’m just going to have to keep my fingers crossed for the next few days.
This year’s apple keynote was lame.
The only real announcement worth anything is about the MacBook Air (which was leaked by wired yesterday). It’s a neat toy, but here’s the downsides:
- No Ethernet port
- MacBook style keyboard
- Trackpad is ginormous
- 64GB SSD drive is $1000 extra!
- Superdrive is external and extra
- Only 1 USB port
- adapter needed for DVI (ie. Micro DVI)
- Processor is a 1.6
- Pimped out one (1.8ghz w/ SSD) = $3,100
I also just noticed that they’re selling a USB / Ethernet adapter for $30. Umm, but won’t that eat up the 1 USB Port?
It’s cool that it’s super thin, has a battery that will last forever, and is “Green” (i’ll rant about that new wave of b.s. later), but seriously. You’re going to have to keep it in a bag with your superdrive and all the various add-on adapters that you’ll need (sold separately of course).
Boo…
Talk about an ambiguous error…
I just got this is .NET for what appears to be no reason at all. Turns out that this is an issue with .NET when it doesn’t fully compile the page. The only way that I’ve found to resolve this issue is to delete the temp files under:
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.net is cool and all, but seriously. I’ve encountered a lot of ‘bugs’ while working with it. WTF? Classic ASP never any any issues like this in the 7+ years that I’ve been using it…. ARG!
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I’m not going to go into the details, but today sucked ass. I guess I need to be reminded every once in a while who i can and can’t trust. John, Joe (aka. The Man), Nicole, Rue, and Marke, you rock =) Everyone else that I was supposed to count on, kiss my ass.