Lester's Rants

What a waste of a day! Yesterday morning I was already to crack on with digging into the remaining problems on the upgrade to the latest versions of the web stack components. Only problem, when adding some limitations to the eclipse 'build path' to reduce it's error list eclipse froze. At first I just thought it was due to the rebuild of the error database, but then it actually crashed. Because I was doing something new I failed to ask myself "What has changed?" and had…

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Thirteen questions and a large amount of repeated dross, but I am getting things under control and more important Mistral is giving me consice 'context' sections to include in the next thread so as to maximize the responces. While I still take much with a pinch of salt, and MUCH of the details is slightly off target, it is good enough to get to the…

Well the new tax year is here, and while in the past my accountant would do the tax return on the 29th January next year, I don't have to wait for that now and the tax man is sitting on money I want back, so I need to do the accounts over the next week or so. The starting point of which is the paypal history file and the HSBC bank account statements. While in the past a full paypal dump would take a few hours, this one was available within 30 minutes. It's a pity that the HSBC account…

REMEMBER TO SAVE THE SCREEN BEFORE HITTING SAVE :( MUST ADDRESS THAT SECURITY VIOLATION! NOW TO TRY AND REMEMBER WHAT I HAD ADDED.

I am going around in circles on trying to upgrade to newer versions of software on the web stack. That my existing stack is working perfectly is demonstrated by the fact that I am writing these blog posts, and while there are niggles in some of the functionality, the content from 25 years of use is still fully accessibl…

The problems of daylight savings changes has been covered on the latest health post so I will not repeat that. The problem today is deciding just where I go on breaking the perfectly functional system that I am posting them on! I've already covered the problems of trying to get PHP code updatd so it continues to work on later versions of PHP. There may be 'problems' in PHP7.3 running on top of Firebird 3 and there are bugs that I need to address, but which don't stop the conte…