History of British mining activity under the trenches during WWI. Doesn’t hold back. Graphic descriptions of the results of explosions, cave-ins and decomposition. Fizzles out at the end as all mining activity was stopped by both sides in 1917.
Underwhelming. I was wondering why the author tiptoed around Adm. Christie’s borderline criminal conduct regarding the Mark XIV torpedo. That is, until I re-read the intro and saw it was written by Christie! A classic tale of bureaucratic arrogance and incompetence taking precedence over the lives of front line combatants.
Bowfin: The True Story of a Fabled Fleet Submarine in World War II (Classics of War)
I was building a large, dynamic pivot table which was getting the above error.
The solution turned out to be simple, but a little bit irritating.
I was calling exec @sql, which resulted in the error.
Changing the above to exec(@sql) worked for sql statements greater than 500 characters.
The last 1/3 of this book is the best and most revealing about the character of the author. I wish he had provided more stories about his relationship with Rommel. His descriptions of the Russian work camps and his post war re-acclimation are excellent. I am hoping that his lectures to various war colleges and the Normandy battle tours will someday be available to the public.
Pretty good read. A bit over researched in some areas, but doesn’t bog down the story.
Sprawling opus that is more like four biographies. The political insight into Lincoln is great, but this book could have been a couple hundred pages shorter.
After installing SP3, Windows Update kept failing when trying to install an IE7 update. I found this resolution.
Open a command line.
Type “Regsvr32 Wups2.dll” and hit enter.
The .dll will register with a confirmation pop-up.
No reboot is required.
Half trial, half mystery – it was a good paperback for flying.
I started getting this error out of the blue and it was brutal. All dlls were compiled through VS 2008 and everything ran fine locally, but, as soon as I loaded the dll to the hosted server, the error appeared. I looked through hundreds of posts, but nothing would resolve the issue. I couldn’t even create a one page web site.
I ended up doing a fresh install on VS 2008 on a separate machine and that dll worked. I then did a XP repair on the initial machine and created a new user profile. Using the new profile, I could compile a dll that would work. When I logged into the old profile the error came back.
In this instance, something got screwed up in the initial profile that must have been causing a version conflict or some other issue. Not really sure how it happened, but I am glad it is over.
