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This has been really annoying me recently. Thank goodness Scott Guthrie explains how to fix it.

I’ve been wrestling with Oracle 10gR2 today. One of my problems was an intermittent error: “ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed” when trying to connect.
It turns out that the error was a result of the database server being on a different Windows domain to my dev machine. This shouldn’t really be a problem but I don’t think my domain trusts are working […]

I’ve been so impressed with the pizzas from Firezza that I thought I’d spread the word.
They do Neapolitan, wood-fired pizzas and you can order them by the metre! I highly recommend the eponymous “Firezza” pizza (Tomato, mozzarella, Italian spicy salami, wood-roasted aubergines, courgettes and cotto ham).
I’m in no way affiliated to the company - I just dig […]

Okay, I don’t like writing posts that just point elsewhere but this is a “super-interesting” interview with Michael Wallent, General Manager of the WinFX team and one of the people who helped create DHTML. If you’re interested in the evolution of WPF/Avalon from its roots in DHTML, this is 49 minutes well-spent.
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=185468

I recently had a problem with Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 where the website had an error icon and wouldn’t start.

When I tried to start I got “Unexpected error 0×8ffe2740 occurred”.
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A quick google revealed that the problem is a port conflict.
However, you have to do some rooting around to find out what is using port […]