EOD 2006-10-02

This morning started off with me trying to get Visual Studio installed
onto a Win2K VM, so I'd have some admin tools to manage this install of
MSSQL, which is being used for the charts upgrade.

The migration of the access db to MSSQL went fine, and the migration
assistant even threw away all the Access replication fields that clutter
up the tables.

I subsequently discovered that trying to get IE 6.0 installed on Win2k
(which is a requirement for VS) was nearly impossible, so more time is
wasted as I create a new VM based on WinXP Pro, along with all the
associated updates that need downloading, users that need creating, etc,
etc.

Along side this is the continuing testing of the problems that McGee
seem to be having, and I'm discovering some odd bugs - when the
dictionary download has happened, and the local server is trying to add
classes, it seems that sometimes, a local ExecuteContext is not properly
created, and the server segfaults. It isn't consistent either. Apart
from that, I'm not able to reproduce the problem with ofserver chewing
up the processor whilst an upload is taking place.

Unfortunately, I decided to purchase, and then install a copy of Norton
IS 2007, which keeps blue-screening the VM on startup. Hmmm.