Author Archives: john

How to block a hacker from hacking in to your Windows server

Atypical hacker will try to force their way into your server by trying to log in to it using the administrator account or a known user account. Usually they use some form of script that uses random or commonly used passwords. If your passwords are complex it’s hopefully a futile attempt on their part but …

June 5, 2012 – 1:40 pm | By john | Posted in Network Administrator | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Paper CD / DVD Case

How many times have you burnt a CD or DVD to give to someone but don’t have a spare case to put it in? If you have a spare A4 sheet of paper then you are in luck. Download this PDF file for a CD Case template. Not only will it keep the disc safe …

March 23, 2012 – 3:47 pm | By john | Posted in Miscellaneous, Tricks and Tips | Comments (0)

Supercharge your PC with a RAM Disk

If your PC has a fair bit of RAM (say 8GB or more) it’s possible you are not getting the maximum benefit out of your memory.  Windows relies on using your hard drive to store open files in a thing called the page file.  Hard drives are just not as fast as memory so what we …

February 27, 2012 – 6:42 pm | By john | Posted in PC Improvements | Tagged | Comments (0)

Conversion from string “” to type ‘Date’ is not valid

This error can be quite confusing.  Your application has probably been working fine and then all of a sudden you start getting this error when converting a valid date stored in a string into date data type.  What’s going on and how do you fix it?

December 20, 2011 – 12:29 pm | By john | Posted in Code Samples | Tagged , | Comments (0)