Recent content by peteij

By way of an update: I have convinced the project manager to let me get on with the development issues and to deal with any commercial issues, so that part is resolved. The offshore manager is fine, he now realises we are on the same side. In the end it just took a bit of diplomacy and...

You'll have to excuse me, I'm not a programmer. I'm just asking on 'behalf' of one. The developers we are using for our network tool are using IPWorks. Part of the process carries out a ping sweep. The timeout for the ping is 1000ms. They are convinced that it can't be changed, but this seems...

JTB - Probably not evil or clueless, but I agree with your way of handling it. FearsomeFastFemale - I think I either do, try or have suggested most of those things. Maybe I was a bit more blunt than usual. OhioBill - In fairness to the OM, we were very late with two payments and he's the guy...

We have outsourced our development for the last four years. As you would expect, by now we know every problem there is with doing this. I know I could reduce the cost and time of any project by halving the number of developers and bringing them in house. However, if it was that simple, I could...

If you signed a contract and they are trying to change the terms or not meet existing terms then they are in breach of contract. I wouldn't swear to this, but if they have already broken the contract then they cannot hold you to it (e.g. the buyout clause). Basically, I don't think you should...

Some interesting points. I originally had every thing in the prosal then full spec approved by my boss, but I'm not sure that the partner agreement was based on those documents. The multiple scenarios would work if there is a gap between what I perceive as the scope and what was agreed. I think...

I was beginning to get around to that way of thinking, e.g. I either need to know everything about the contract so that I can deal with it effectively, or I ask my MD to pursue it. That way I have an 'either/or' option to present to him and the choice is his. I've been working on the...

Thanks for the input. We are tied into our partners because of the history of the project. The problems stem back to recent contractual agreements that I wasn't involved in and still seam unclear. I need to get all these points resolved, get the team functioning so that any other problems can...

The Indian company do supply people, but they are at saturation point. They seem reluctant to get more programmers in until they are sure of the scope (some sense in that), but they have had the documents to base this on for a couple of months. I ask daily about progress on this and they have...

I have been working on a project for some time (3 years) as an analyst. Just at the point where we were due to release the product we were taken over and it was effectively left to rot. The Product Manager left, then we went through a management buyout. The product was resurected and I was...

I am using a listview where I want to show different columns. I have no problem populating the list view, but when I add new columns I still have the old columns. How do I get rid of them? Thanks.

We are currently testing an application that accesses SQL Server. We tend to monitor the processor usage quite a lot. Every so often the everything seizes up. We can shut down the application we are testing, but SQL Server still seems to be using 99% of the processor. Even when we stop the...

There are a lot of asset management programs about - it really depends what you want. Mouse Tracks has one thing going for it - it's ridiculously cheap. Of course, it's developed in MS Access, so personally I'd be loathe to pay for anything that could be developed internally with a couple of...

I am trying to set up a job in SQL Server Agent using the CmdExec option. Supposedly you just enter an operating system command or an executable name (courtesy of the extremely unhelpful Books Online). The job starts, but the executable never runs and I can't work out why. Other jobs I have set...

Thanks guys, now I know what I am actually looking for I can find more information on it. I would like to ask one more question, though. Given that I have an application already implemented (or near implemented), based on the normal SQL Server 7.0 structure, do I have to re-engineer anything or...