Computer problems are always frustrating.  Especially since I seem to encounter so many of them.

 

Most recent issue: SharePoint (at work).  Last Spring Break I build a decent prototype page using SharePoint on a developmental server.  However, because of a hardware failure on an instrument, that system had to be appropriated with much haste.  The backup of the dev system turned out to bad, something that only became apparent after the original drive had been wiped.  However, it seemed like everything would be okay: the original config and content databases were still intact on our db server. 

 

Not so.  I cannot get a new install of WSS to connect to the config db.  Keeps giving "invalid account" or kills the worker process or fails with some other error (I'll remember it eventually).  The final solution is going to be to dev on another server, pull out all the documents in the old content db (using a simple app I wrote up earlier today that just pulls out the blobs), and migrate over to the production server eventually.  Oh well.  That's what the paychecks are for...

 

Update: The reason for the large time interval between initial development and now was the upgrade of all the servers to W2k3, and hundreds of pages of qualification for EVERY computer in the building (which sucked).