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In the office, we use a program called Daylite to manage our projects, contacts and jobs.

Yesterday, all heck broke lose and Daylite Server stopped working, claiming that the database could not be started and to try reinstalling or rebooting. So naturally being the expert with computers that I am, I turned it off and turned it back on again – still the same error (and yes, I also checked that it was plugged in).

After a little bit of solution hunting in the forums, trawling through posts of “Yes I have this problem !!!!111lol” and “Pls fix. kthnxbai” I managed to find a possible solution, rebuilt the system permissions. So I went ahead and did that and the error went away. Only it was replaced with a more worrying one – Database cannot be found! So a bit more hunting and I found another possible solution. This time to rebuild the permissions on the OpenBase database.

Tried that and then I get the original error back (for anyone searching, it was: com.marketcircle.MCPostgresDomain, Error 300). Now that I have come full circle, I try a different solution to the problem. This time from the official Market Circle Knowledge Base (which didn’t show up on my original search):

Go to /Library/Application Support/Daylite Server/Logs/Daylite Configd.log and check to see if see the following text pattern:

FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 0, ID 65544) is still in use

If you see that text, then you can try to reboot the server to see if the shared memory block is released. If it is not, do the following in Terminal:

sudo ipcrm -m 65544

The ID number (65544 in this case) is important. It will be different for everyone.

Orignal post on the knowledge base can be found here

This seemed to work right away and now I can continue working through the To-Do list of jobs I have been given. Yay?

OK. Looking back, the majority of ‘recent’ posts on here are me vowing to use it more, usually followed by a post a month later apologising for not posting more (usually after it coming up in conversation with my dad) but today I actually have something to talk about.

As you may know, I have a Blackberry Curve 8900, on which I have applications for Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites – but those are the 2 I use most often. Recently I received my invitation to join the SocialScope alpha. SocialScope is an all-in-one social networking tool for the Blackberry that allows you to connect to the various sites (Twitter, Facebook etc.) From one application rather than using different ones.

Whilst this does keep the quicklaunch bar of my mobile device clutter free, allowing me to have Poynt on there, it does raise an interesting question – which is better to use, one umbrella app or separate ones for each site?

With separate applications they generally have more options and ways to configure how the application works, but the downside is that you need two or more applications to access the services. One application allows you access all the services from one place, although you might not have as many options to play around with. An example of this is UberTwitter on the Blackberry, witht that it allows me to send tweets, images and links. The same is true for SocialScope, but with UberTwitter I can geotag my tweets and see other goetagged tweets on an integrated Google Map. Something that is very interesting to look at (for the last time, I’m not a stalker!). If these such or similar features make it in to SocialScope then I’ll be a happy bunny, but then again it does what it says on the tin.