I got this while working on a DotNetNuke module today:
What this really means is
One of your user controls could not be compiled, and the error message from the compiler is plainly available in the file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\Temporary ASP.NET Files\dnn3\9ed962
a0\9cd87477\zyn7emjq.out , but I’m not written well enough to to tell you that myself
I really must move this project from .NET Framework 1.1 (and DotNetNuke 3.x) to .NET Framework 2.0 (and DNN 4.x). I don’t know if this will improve the error handling in the slightest, but at least I’ll know I’m swearing at the latest version of the software.
In New Zealand small change is changing … we’re getting new 50c, 20c and 10c coins, and the 5c coin is being dropped. To match this the guidelines for rounding cash values are also changing.
Previously, the general guidelines were that values were rounded to the nearest 5c - values ending in 1,2,6,7 rounded down, and those ending in 3,4,8,9 were rounding up.
Now we need to round to 10c. However, the New Zealand Retailers Association guidelines state that values ending in 5c (ie exactly in the middle) are to be rounded DOWN (towards zero). This is not conventional mathematical rounding, that you’d find in a function called round() in most programming languages’ standard libraries. So I had to do some work.
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Someone came in the other day - well, it was probably a week or two now - asking about a “Linux answering machine”.
Turned out he had a Windows machine with a 56k modem attached, which was operating as an answering machine. I knew those modems were supposed to be “voice capable” but this is the first time I’d ever heard of anyone actually using this (except as a gimmick). He wanted to get rid of Windows entirely since his main machine was running Xandros.
My first thought was of Asterisk, which has got a lot of good press recently and has an active development community. However even Trixbox (formerly Asterisk@home) doesn’t scale down as far as a voice modem! I was also vaguely aware of vgetty, but one look at the documentation and it’s obviously techie territory.
Then I stumbled across VOCP. (more…)