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It's well worth a watch. Microsoft have always made great hardware and finally Apple have some real tablet competition. I love the design, I love the fact you can use standard Windows apps, I love the aspect ratio, I love the keyboard, touch cover and stand, but not the colours – they're garish and childish. [...]
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A post on Coding Horror reminded me of the open sourcing of Netscape code back in 1998 – was that really 13 years ago? Jeff talks about a documentary called Code Rush which chronicles this period in Netscape’s history including it’s purchase by AOL. It’s well worth watching and illustrates how important that era was [...]
I recently had cause to change the SQL Collation of the tempdb database on a SQL 2005 Cluster. The installed collation was SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS and I needed to change it to Latin1_General_CI_AS. After some brief research it became apparent that the process isn’t as straightforward as you’d imagine. My first attempt, based on a couple of [...]
For a while now I’ve been getting an error when trying to open office documents (Word, Excel etc) from our SharePoint 2007 based Intranet, this has been happening since I upgraded of Office 2010 Beta. The error was always of the type ‘”Could not open ‘http://…”. To get around the issue I’d just download the [...]
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I spent more time than I should have trying to diagnose, what turned out to be, a relatively simple problem last week. We were using an ISA 2006 Array to load balance a Silverlight App between multiple web servers. Each server was added to a web farm in ISA and the rule was configured using the ISA publishing wizard. The [...]
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I made an interesting discovery recently. It would appear that if you press CTRL + C when the focus is on a error message it copies the text from the dialog box onto your clipboard. How useful is that? Here’s an example; Contents from the clipboard after pressing CTRL + C. ————————— Message from webpage [...]
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XP Mode is a new feature of Windows 7 which allows you to run apps from a Windows XP Virtual Machine as if it was on the desktop of your Windows 7 PC. The following details how to use this facility in order to run the Cisco 32bit VPN Client from a Windows 7 64bit [...]
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How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL Server 2005. On Source Server Create stored procedure sp_help_revlogin from code on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992/. Run the stored procedure and copy the output. On Destination Server Paste the Output from source server into a query window and run it. Job done!
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To export all the Service Principle Names (SPNs) from a domain use ldifde -f spns.txt -d DC=resource,DC=domain,DC=local -l serviceprincipalname LDIFDE queries any available domain controller to retrieve/update AD information. More information about LDIFDE can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555634
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Late last week I attended a SQL 2008 Partner Technology Day. Here are some brief notes on some of the features that stood out. Resource Governor – Allows you to ring fence workload execution for example you can give user X 20% of CPU and 256mb memory. The presenter actually demo’d this and showed changing [...]
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