Archive for the 'techy' Category

How to fix Undocumented Serious Error 0×101a in Eset Smart Security

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Eset anti-virus has been running like clockwork for me since I installed it 6 months ago. Until today that is.
My tray icon turned orange and I kept getting warnings that my protection was not up to date. Attempts to get the latest update failed with the scary and mysterious error message: “Undocumented Serious Error 0×101a”.
On [...]

Wordpress Upgrade Turbulence

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

I just upgraded from Wordpress 1.5.2 to 2.0.3, the latest stable version.
I would love to report that it was all up and running effortlessly in a few clicks, but there were quite a few niggles! I had to head off to do something half way through upgrading which is not recommended! Aside from [...]

Overheard in Dalkey…

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

On passing another couple on the scenic coastline walk between Dalkey and Killiney:

“I can reply to e-mails OK…. I just can’t instigate an e-mail”

Well, it made us chuckle anyway…

Google API Gone Gaga?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I use the Google web search API a lot in a certain application. It has been good as gold for ages but since the New Year it has gone ape. It works intermittently at best, and even putting a 60 second lag between queries does not seem to do any good. The infamous “502 bad [...]