Error messages - you had better believe them...

Ok, so I've had a bit of a revelation the last few days. It seems nowadays error messages actually mean what they say. To an advanced computer user this is something new...

We had a web server that said "The system cannot find the file specified". This is usually an access rights problem so we started troubleshooting file security. Turned out the asp-file was actually missing!

One of my aspx pages said 'The control must be created within a form that contains the runat="server" directive'. I thought it was because it was created outside of a template - but the page actually didn't have a server sided form.

To any of you who don't deal with computers this may seem like a very peculiar learning. Those of you who do will not...
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Setting mixed mode login for MSDE 2000

Ever get this from SQL Server or MSDE: Login failed for user 'sa'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection?

What it means is that the sa account is trying to login using SQL Server authentication and that the SQL Server is in "Windows authentication only"-mode.

How then to set it to mixed mode (both SQL and Windows authentication)? You would think that using the dialog window in Enterprise Manager would do it, but (at least on MSDE) it just keeps resetting itself to Windows authentication only.

What you need to do is manually change the registry. See here for details.
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Blogging to my own site

I deciced I'd try out the "Publish to FTP" function on Blogger. It was a bit tricky to make it work (tip: there are path settings both on the publish and archive tabs). After some tweaking, everything is working smoothly now. A completely new template to mimic my own site (even though it's not very pretty) and blogger's become a free blog content management system for my blog on my own site - amazing...

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