Media Corp acquires sport.co.uk
By peter.stilgoe
Media Corp has acquired the domain name and website sport.co.uk for £135,000 as part of a continuing focus on expanding its digital properties.
Media Corp, which revealed it was overhauling Gambling.com last month, said it wanted to develop sport.co.uk as a key sports portal, with information, news and stats on global sports.
Justin Drummond, Media Corp CEO, said: “The value of a top-tier domain name combined with a profitable advertising-driven business model was recently illustrated by the Group’s successful sale of Casino.co.uk for up to £3.625m.
“We are aiming to replicate this success with Sport.co.uk as we continue to increase the scale and diversity of the Group’s Web Publishing business.”
Simple Split Testing Script – PHP
By peter.stilgoe
Send your clicks to this script to split test your landing pages.
if(rand(0,1) == 0) {
header("Location: http://www.example.com/split1");
} else {
header("Location: http://www.example.com/split2");
}
?>
After 15 / 20 conversions drop your worst peforming landing page & replace it with a new version.
Rinse & repeat and watch the $$$$ roll in………
Micross Open Database – The system has detected that the next journal record is invalid
By peter.stilgoe
When running open database you get –
The system has detected that the next journal record is invalid
Open the ‘Micross Open Support Program’ & click ‘Sync’
This should find the invalid record, click save & try running open database again & it should run OK.
If there is another invalid record repeat the steps above.
If this doesnt work contact support.
Turn On Archive Logging to troubleshoot licence issues
By peter.stilgoe
You can also turn on Archive logging by logging into Omnis as an
‘Administrative’ user and selecting Tools – Options and on the Advanced
tab selecting the Enable Archive Logging. This option will start
populating the Current Activity Display – Archive Log tab when a user
starts and exists an action. The idea is that there shouldn’t be any
entries without End Times for any dates ealier than today.
Omnis / Micross Out Of Licences
By peter.stilgoe
If users are getting out of licences errors when trying to access Micross –
With all users out of the system run c:\k3btg\omnis\omwinset clear all from any Omnis workstation. Then clear any rogue logins to free up licences.
Cannot Login to Micross – Error code: -245755 Record is deleted
By peter.stilgoe
You get the following error when trying to login to Micross / Omnis
FrmLogin
Error code: -245755
Record is deleted.
With all users out of the system, delete omlog.mdb from your control / program folder, then copy / paste / rename omlog_empty.mdb to create a new empty logfile.
SBS 2003 SP2 Broadcom NIC’s & slow network !
By peter.stilgoe
Using the above & network performance is nothing short of shocking ?!? Broadcom TOE nics ? (all TOE enabled nics will prob need these edits)
It looks like that due to the fact that SP2 includes Scalable networking pack, the Checksum offloading stuff and Receive Side Scaling might be causing some issues and the symptoms you will see is slow file copies, problems accessing web sites and DHCP issues where your workstations won’t pick up an IP address, Secure NAT and VPN issues especially with Premium boxes. To disable this do the following:
To disable checksum offloading:
From the registry you can do:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Click Edit, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type DisableTaskOffload as the entry name, and then press ENTER.
Right-click DisableTaskOffload, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type a value of 1 , and then click OK.
Disable RSS (Receive side scaling)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912222/en-us
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit , and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, click DWORD Value, and then type EnableRSS .
4. Double-click EnableRSS, type 0 , and then click OK.



January 22nd, 2008
