tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105712562011-12-29T06:14:57.159-08:00Chris Hutchcroft Consulting - a bunch of tech notes, cool things found, and stuffChris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-34943681411528756812011-12-29T06:14:00.000-08:002011-12-29T06:14:57.182-08:00

A nice tribute to 135 missions of the NASA Space Shuttles, the last of which was in July 2011.

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The new Twitter doesn't present an RSS feed any more but it's still there. It's now a 2 step process to subscribe to a feed. 1. Find the user account number by using the user name at http://www.idfromuser.com 2. Use the feed URL http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USERID.rss where USERID is the account number from step 1 So far it's hit and miss for feeds, some work, some do not.

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This is by far the coolest form factor I've seen for a Linux computer: AnandTech: Commodore USA Announces C64x Extreme: Quad Core in a Classic Commodore Chassis A quad-core Commodore 64? What's next, a dual-core VIC-20?

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I came across this great post on HomeWorks Blog on how to add an alias to a server share, which is a summary of MSKB 281308. I have tested using a Windows Server 2008 R2 server for the share with multiple aliases. So long as the SPN is set, there have not been problems connecting to the share from any client from a current Windows 7 or 2008 R2 all the way back to Windows NT4.

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Yes it's cheesy, and blatant marketing scare tactics, but it's still funny.

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A great history of Internet Explorer.

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I was perusing one of the many newsletters and came across some useful information from Google Analytics based on the anonymous usage data collected. The 2011 trend for internet browsers has declined for Windows, down 5.1% from 2010 to 84.8%. Mac has increased 0.7% to 5.2%, Linux relatively unchanged at 0.7%, and Other has almost doubled to 9.3%. I read the Other as smart phones, that increase

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I think I found a new term to use - instead of having to apply a hotfix, I'll need to deploy a fix in an Immediate Deployment Timeframe. Kudos to Raymond Chen for that bit of Microspeak.

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We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta on Peachtree Avenue.  They were helpful enough to get most of our rooms on one floor, and the rooms were spacious.  I had a couple of problems with my room, one was that the bathroom seemed designed for a 3’ tall person with shelves under the sink. I also had problems with my shower - the drain would not stay open, and the shower valve was broken and only

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COS371-INT How to Monitor and Manage Windows Azure-Hosted Applications Microsoft follows their standard online service life cycle of design, engineer, operate, and optimize. They are now developing some Azure applications for lower start-up costs and faster turnaround (it takes up to three months to get servers resourced). Casey Jacobs (Sr. Director of Operations) gave some real-world examples

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MID309 Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Server for Performance This was a demonstration of how to optimize BizTalk 2010 (most of this also applies to BizTalk 2009). A baseline of performance in messages per second was recorded with the BizTalk Benchmark Wizard. First steps should be to read the BizTalk Performance Optimization Guide and use the Best Practices Analyzer. BizTalk relies heavily on

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COS303 Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network A future component of Azure is Windows Azure Connect.  Currently available as a release candidate it can be used with current Azure deployments to connectivity from Windows Azure resources to internally hosted resources. This is huge in that it allows keeping portions (applications, data) out of the cloud

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COS301 Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System with Mark Russinovich Clearly this session was for IT Pros and for me really helped to de-mystify what Windows Azure is and is not. Mark Russinovich has moved from the consumer Windows platforms to the Windows Azure team and at least to the audience is the evangelist for Windows Azure (and avoids the Cloud buzzword). Context was set at the

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SIM404-R Hey, You! Get Off My Network! The premise of the hack-proofing in this session is that there is no way to stop a hacker, but you should make it harder for them. Quick-tips on how to harden a server or workstation: Use Windows Server 2008 R2 Core - no user shell, reduced attack surface Use AppLocker, which can give granular software restriction policies Use biometrics or smart cards, to

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COS211 How Microsoft Manages Its Cloud Infrastructure at a Huge Scale This was a fast paced and informative session from Rick Bakken, Senior Director Data Center Evangelism of Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services. All of the Microsoft data centers are run from their Global Foundational Services division, which handle all data center facilities, hardware, and network in an Infrastructure as a

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WCL405 Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed, with Mark Russinovich (Part 1 of 2) WCL406 Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed, with Mark Russinovich (Part 2 of 2) As Aimee and Dustin pointed out, the only sessions with a speaker name in all of Tech-Ed were the four sessions with Mark Russinovich.  That qualifies him as the headline speaker at Tech-Ed as these both sessions filled the

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SIM327 Rethinking Cyber Threats: Experts Panel This session was Q&A with an experts panel with Laura Chappell, Marcus Murray, Andy Malone, and Paula Januszkiewicz. Of interest from the panel: All companies have unmaintained devices, whether authorized or not. These include smart phones, embedded OS devices (printers, etc.), and tablets. HP wireless printers collect all information on wireless

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DBI302 Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" AlwaysOn Series, Part 1: Introducing the Next Generation High Availability Solution DBI404 Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" AlwaysOn Series, Part 2: Building a Mission-Critical High Availability Solution Using AlwaysOn The sessions on SQL “Denali” (the next unnamed SQL Server release) overlapped to a great extent, I have combined both

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COS275-INT Pricing, Licensing and SLA A great session without PowerPoint, this was a late-day interactive session with a small group (likely because of the late session time) going over the licensing model of Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Key take-aways regarding the licensing and SLA’s: Entirely usage-based pricing, for SQL transactions, storage, compute (# of VM’s running), and storage IO.

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MID201 An Overview of the Microsoft Middleware Strategy AppFabric itself looks promising, as the middleware platform for cloud and server applications for service bus, messaging, and orchestrations. Administration through the AppFabric Application Manager allows deployment to AppFabric containers, either local or in cloud services. Not yet production released, as of May 2011 this is in CTP.

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BI402 Performance Tuning and Optimization in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server Code-Named Denali The principles of tuning and optimization haven’t changed radically since SQL 2005. There’s still the need to do monitoring, and to do baseline measures. Troubleshooting, tuning and optimizing, and test and deploy cycles should be done. I’ll skip the details as this is an art into itself

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DBI371-INT-R Getting Optimal Performance Out of Your SAN with Microsoft SQL Server Best practices for getting optimal IO for enterprise SQL installations. This covers direct attached storage (DAS), storage area networks (SAN), and auto-tiering arrays. For any installation be aware of the bottlenecks and limits. Use SQLIOSim to test the limits of your installation. A sample demo of a 10TB data

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WSV302 iSCSI and Windows Server: Getting Best Performance, High-Availability and Better Virtualization The biggest issues using iSCSI: Oversubscription Performance for some workloads TCP/IP security concerns… really? Benefits of using iSCSI: Reduced administration complexity In-house experience using TCP/IP Existing infrastructure A summary of the tips & tricks of how to get the best iSCSI

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OSP207 Complete Enterprise Content Management in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Presentation of this was well done, stepping away from what others have done and leading this in a Choose Your Own Adventure type of meeting, letting audience members choose which topics to cover and when. The decision points on how to do content management are more business decisions than technical implementation

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VIR317 Understanding How Microsoft Virtualization Compares to VMware This session was for all intents and purposes to sell Hyper-V to ESX clients. A show of hands at the start confirmed that - most of the attendees already use VMware, and many also use Hyper-V.  For me this helped clarify some things that I knew of previous versions of Hyper-V but now have updates with 2008 R2 SP1. Metrics of

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FDN101 The Microsoft Web Platform This foundational session was to give an overview of the web platform, but 90% of it focused on WebMatrix. WebMatrix as a development tool is bundled with IIS Express and SQL Server Compact. Both run in user space, so unlike other tools that require IIS to be running as a service (and be maintained as a service) this works well for functional testing. There

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Walking in to the Tech-Ed keynote on Monday morning was quite a production. The lineup to get in was huge, coming out of the breakfast hall was where the lineup started. Once inside the hall, there was seating for 15,000 and a lot of people directing traffic. A live band Glitch Mob was playing. There was not a lot notable from the keynote speech itself. My main take-away was in how TFS 2010

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Having learned from last year, the travel to Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 went a lot better.  Key to this was not finding my own flight but copying someone else's (thanks Aimee and Dustin), and not checking in any luggage. No luggage checked in, nothing for the airline to lose. The connector through Dallas was on time, and we arrived in Atlanta shortly after 7pm, just in time to get to the hotel and

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Still looking for a Systems Analyst at Inventure Solutions (a Vancity Company). Apply here.

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Great combination of two things I like - Romero movies and Call of Duty!

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Internet Explorer 9 is now available. I had mentioned before that the beta and release candidate went well. The upgrade of my RC didn't show in Windows Update, but going to the IE page on Microsoft.com and running the downloader went seamlessly on my test Windows 7 computer.  A clean upgrade IE8 to IE9 also went well, and was a rather quick. At least some of my sites work as well as they did in

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I'm looking to hire someone at Inventure Solutions... anyone interested please apply. Windows Analyst II

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Now that Internet Explorer 9 has been released, Microsoft has created an IE6 Countdown site ie6countdown.com to mark how many IE6 browsers are still in use. Interestingly, Canada (3.3%) has more than US (2.9%) but nowhere near China (34.5%).

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U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 - eBay (item 170614261047) I'm tempted to bid but I'm worried I would be taxed at the border at the full cost.

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According to Microsoft in this article, as of March 14 Internet Explorer 9 will be available for download. After having skipped the beta cycle on the past couple of browsers, this has been one that I have been with through the beta and release candidate cycle and looks promising. The big problem with earlier versions is the pre-release upgrade cycle has been problematic, usually requiring an

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Upgrading Windows through 25 years from DOS5 to Windows 7. Pretty cool. I still remember when I bought Doom II and still have the original install floppies.

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Best game ever? Perhaps hardest game ever. QWOP

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This brilliantly sums up two different views of content and publishing.

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AV-Test.org ran tests of anti-virus products on Windows 7 this year, and some of the results were rather interesting.My anti-virus of choice at home, AVG, came out with a pretty good rating and was one of the highest for protection. Not bad for home use at the price of free.The anti-virus of choice at work, McAfee, was one of the few that did not get certified as the usability score was low (I

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This was on screen in the Dallas airport when transferring from New Orleans to Vancouver on June 11, 2010.I guess it's not such a transparent screen saver

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Play as Human or Cyclon? Cool!

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The morning session, Pushing The Limits Of Windows with Mark Russinovich, had some great explanations of memory structures and how they can go bad.Resource exhaustion can cause a service outage at best, and data corruption or loss at times. A system administrator needs to know the limits of an application on Windows, for capacity planning, system monitoring, and troubleshooting. This is the

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With a session name of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Failover Clustering Implementations, for once the topic matched the name. Note that in what follows unless specified Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 are interchangeable, as are SQL 2008 and SQL 2008 R2.Whenever installing SQL on a cluster, always use the latest Service Pack and Cumulative Update.SQL 2008 R2 requires the

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Firstly, a quick cheat-sheet of the hierarchy of objects in SharePoint 2010: items --> lists --> sites --> site collections --> databases --> web applications --> servers.As with many Microsoft applications, the database performance can drive or kill the health of the application. Design is paramount. So let’s state right here:SQL health = SharePoint healthWhen installing SharePoint 2010, the

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I thought I would get more out of this session than I did, but the presentation skills of the presenter made it hard to stay awake. SharePoint 2010 has a change from 2007 regarding installation of integrated Reporting Services. Use prerequisiteinstaller.exe to install the SSRS R2 add-in for SharePoint 2010, and after that install SharePoint.A new feature with SSRS 2008 R2 is a new data source

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Despite the title that put me to sleep “The Secrets Of Effective Technical Talks: How To Explain Tech Without Tucking Them In!” this was by far the best presentation I’ve seen to date at Tech-Ed.The topic was on how to do a technical presentation, and was presented by Mark Minasi and Mark Russinovich (wearing the “Azure” blue Microsoft shirt). As a point of reference, this tweaks not only the

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One of the morning sessions was on SQL Server High Availability presented by Vineet Rao. Most of the focus was on methods to minimize data loss, increase uptime, and classify data to meet those needs for unplanned failures and planned failures.I liked the data tier suggestion:Tier 1 99.99% uptime, under 5 minutes data loss, mission criticalTier 2 99.9%-99.99% uptime, 5 minutes data loss, line of

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This session was an interactive session with Continental Airlines and ADP, both of which have now deployed thousands of Windows 7 clients. A summary of the tips follows.Sell the upgrade and create excitement. Sell executives on the benefits of upgrading and have their buy-in. Use the windows shake feature as a selling point. Regarding application certification on Windows 7 - use term “

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My Web Site Is So Slow… And I Don’t Know What To Do About It!This session had a lot of information about what can make an IIS web site be slow and the steps to fix it. I’ve condensed it down to a troubleshooting checklist to check in order of most likely and largest impact: code, server, client, network.Key to performance is reducing the number of network calls, and also reducing the amount of

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Two sessions on Monday really stood out, and both were by Laura Chappell, author of WireShark Network Analysis (www.wiresharkbook.com) and overall a damn good technical presenter.She is in development for a book and course on the network stack of Microsoft products and solicited input on what applications to focus on. It should be noted that the SharePoint spaghetti is already assumed.The first

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-50423571548912731682010-06-08T20:40:00.007-07:002010-06-08T20:53:35.639-07:00

The day started early, meeting Anson at 7am to catch the bus shuttle to the convention centre. We arrived in time to get a breakfast of muffins and coffee, then went to line up for the keynote speech.We had to wait outside of Hall F, and when the doors opened and we walked it I couldn’t believe how big the hall was – and that it was full of seats. Every chair had an orange t-shirt on it, and the

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This year I have the opportunity to go to Microsoft Tech-Ed in New Orleans with the Inventure crew and… here I am!Day 0 – The Road To Bourbon Street.The Sunday morning flight from Vancouver should have been a sign of things, nothing goes smooth, but no real disasters. US Customs must have figured my half-empty luggage (room to bring bag swag) was suspicious – ‘extra’ security checks. That

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What happens when 1980's 8-bit graphics meets modern rendering engines?So cool.

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This came upon my Machinima feed, and I thought it would be good to keep and share for two aspects. This is a keynote presentation from GDC 2010, featuring Sid Meier of Civilization fame.First reason is how simply he outlines the psychology of a gamer, and how to develop a game not only to hook a player, but have a game be replayable. It's amazing how many games miss the replayability factor.

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One of the great things about Windows 7 has been being able to run Virtual PC - finally a version that isn't so bogged down in performance that I get forced to use VMware Player.That said, half of the time I'll get an error which basically says "you don't have Hardware Assisted Virtualization enabled on your processor and piss off, you're not installing Virtual PC". Good news! Microsoft has

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I have to track web site usage on a regular basis, but not on the scale described in this video. Pretty amazing stats!

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Essential tools for Windows that I've been using (more like millions are using... or should) are the SysInternals tools. Of course it's now owned by Microsoft, but the tool quality is still there (if you ignore the Use Agreement at first run they added). For those that know what a process is and can troubleshoot, they are the Swiss Army Knife of tools.I keep a copy on my toolkit (aka USB key)

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Call of Duty 4 was going fine, then suddenly the graphics pixellated. A reboot and it was fine... until it happened again. This was a sign of an impending graphics failure, possibly an overheating GPU.The next day it was a Red Light and an E74 error with "system error" showing in 10 other languages.Fortunately, this error is now covered by a 3-year warranty and this was bought 2 years ago (so

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Similar to carbon offsets, there's now code offsets available for purchase from codeoffsets.com. I love the idea of offsetting bad code on a line-by-line basis with a donation to an open source project. Perhaps the next time we come across a project that cuts the time in half without shrinking the deliverables, we budget for an estimated quantity of bad code offsets.

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Things happen to laptops - they get dropped, they get things spilled in them. I happened to do both at once - may tablet fell off a table, landed upside down, and wine spilled into it (lots of nice open vents on the bottom). Needless to say, it didn't work anymore.After detaching the power and battery and letting it dry out - it would power on for a couple of seconds, then go off with the power

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Today October 22 marks the official retail launch of Windows 7. As I blogged earlier, I've been using Windows 7 Ultimate for a few months now.Given this was a 32-bit version, my next challenge is running Windows 7 Enterprise x64. I need to take the 64-bit plunge as my new work computer has 8GB of memory and I intend to use it (plus the 4-head video card).I'm finally going to retire my Windows

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Where do I sit on the PC vs. Mac issue? It should come as no surprise that I'm more of a PC guy, but that doesn't preclude using a Mac. I just have much more access to non-Mac hardware, so that hardware tends to run either Windows (everything from Windows 98 to Windows 7) or Linux (typically Ubuntu). So call me 90% PC.

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-90808443962452224182009-09-21T06:29:00.003-07:002009-09-21T06:30:57.391-07:00

Fortunately my kids have seen every episode of Star Wars somewhere between 10 to 50 times, so hey don't need a guide to know which episode is which. For everyone else, here's a great learning aid: How To Tell Which Star Wars You're Watching

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A very insightful article...Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeksPosted using ShareThis

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This would be a cool way to take up chess again... a Lego Star Wars chess set!More pics in the Flikr set.Hopefully this is still on display at Legoland California when we visit in the spring!

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Forget the actual product, here's an item on Amazon that has awesome reviews. Creative kudos to the reviewers of the Three Wolf Moon short sleeve tee.

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Putt's LawTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.Warn me if I stray from the first type, shoot me if I become the second type.

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-16475480512961218042009-08-17T22:12:00.006-07:002009-08-17T22:26:50.506-07:00

I've switched the Portege M400 from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate.This was a reinstall not an upgrade, so the only problem I had was the same as with the Vista install - no drivers for the hard drive controller. This was easy enough to put on a USB key and install during the DVD install. This did prove to be a problem with the Windows 7 Enterprise WDS install - given I have the only

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-52151799551107778272009-08-06T06:39:00.002-07:002009-08-06T06:42:06.861-07:00

Here's an awesome ode to the 1980's technology.How many cool 80's technology items can you spot? Comment below.

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One of the more interesting features of Internet Explorer 8 is InPrivate browsing.While in IE you can open a new InPrivate session from the menu from Safety / InPrivate Browsing, or with a keyboard shortcut of CTRL-SHIFT-P.When you open it this way, Internet Explorer will aways open a new window (as it runs in a separate process, similar to how an SSL page will always go to a new process).To

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Now that Internet Explorer 8 has been released in March, I've been going through my sites testing compatibility. So far I haven't had any rendering issues, I guess it's helped developing for Firefox first to ensure W3C standards, then regression testing for IE7.TechNet had a great article highlighting What's New In Internet Explorer 8. I learned a few compatibility tweaks to force the

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Having gone through a couple of SQL setup audits with Microsoft, it became apparent that a lot of the security issues for SQL, no matter if SQL 2000, 2005, or 2008, are common sense if you have a good reference.TechNet had an article about Common SQL Server Security Issues and Solutions. After reading through it, I found that almost every single item is easy to implement for anyone (DBA or not)

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A little perspective on technology.Did it make you think?

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-54954353378268111342009-03-28T15:12:00.000-07:002009-03-28T15:16:57.686-07:00

I saw this site from NASA to have your name included on the next Mars Rover - if you can't go to space, may as well have your name go to space!http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyournameCameron's name is already included with a certificate to prove it.Happy birthday Dad, you're going to Mars too!

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MCP had this column about issues with AMD multi-core chips and time drift: Windows Server Adrift. Unfortunately, the comment function was broken and threw a 501 error.I had this problem once on a couple of servers with a dual-core Opteron chips.One of the more interesting side effects was ping would return a negative result (and you thought a response time under 1 ms was short?). A change to

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This is actually funny, a combination of Halo 3 and Robot Chicken... Robot Halo Chicken.Episode 4 (above) is one Cameron will like - it combines the game Portal in a few spots.Check out the other episodes:Robot Halo Chicken 5Robot Halo Chicken 3Robot Halo Chicken 2Robot Halo Chicken 1

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-73534199961841682552008-09-10T06:16:00.002-07:002008-09-10T06:17:15.374-07:00

Taking off the computer geek hat and putting on the physics geek hat, here's a video to explain the Large Hadron Collider.Good luck CERN!

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It's not exactly a lesson per se on how to handle a conference call, but what you can relate to is what makes it funny.International Conference Calls Somehow I've seen all of this.

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-37546245810192373102008-07-26T09:48:00.002-07:002008-07-31T21:27:36.047-07:00

The Lost Planet Movie is in the making. If anyone can convert a game to a good movie, it's Capcom... anyone hear of Resident Evil?[July 31 update] The writer for the Lost Planet Movie will be David Hayter, who's got some good geek movie cred having written X-Men and X-Men 2.

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I've always hated to have to go to a site to check out the latest things, be it video or downloads or what have you. My pet peeve was YouTube, where you'd have to subscribe but could only see what's new in subscriptions on the page.I've now found how to add RSS feeds for YouTube!Thanks so the Google Operating System blog, to get the RSS feed for a channel (and every user has a channel) use this

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As previously mentioned, I had to activate Windows XP. Now that I've had to run installs on a bunch of Compaq Evo d530's, I have discovered that all of the OEM keys can no longer be activated online. Each activation says "the key number was mistyped" with error message 45128, though this error message is false as it was typed correctly.A couple of years ago, Microsoft disabled the activation of

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I haven't had any issues with product activation for a Microsoft product in a long time, so it came as a bit of a surprise to be reloading Windows XP Professional on a computer and getting error 45131 from the Activate Product Online wizard.I'm not sure what triggered this, but it's probably because the OEM key on the box was already activated once or twice (it's had a long history). The other

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-88047927848840086932008-05-29T06:25:00.004-07:002008-05-29T06:36:58.000-07:00

This has to be the first time I've bought a video game... twice. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was an awesome game for Xbox 360, with the best online play (can you say head shot?).So what happened? Capcom re-released it as Lost Planet: Colonies Edition with more online maps, characters, and game play - it's pretty well a whole new game.So far my game stats don't show in the new edition, and

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Spotted this cool new video from Weezer, Pork and Beans.Let's play spot-the-homage. So far I've found Star Wars (light sabers), Will It Blend (Blendtec blender), web cams (start and throughout), Threadless (155 t-shirts!), and of course the Mentos and Diet Coke fountains.

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There are some cool half Star Wars releases coming out - half because they fit between episodes.Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming to theatres in August, just in time for Cameron's birthday! It looks very cool, a high quality animated Star Wars II 1/2.After that in September the new game Star Wars The Force Unleashed comes out, which is essentially Star Wars III 1/2. Coming soon to...

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-49268207712814568252008-05-07T22:17:00.006-07:002008-05-07T22:53:16.334-07:00

Here's a tweak to get rid of the awful network performance of Vista file copies, especially if you are moving around large AVI or ISO files. Note that if you are intending to use Windows Server 2008 this should not be done as these are performance tweaks optimized for Vista-to-2008 communications. If you use a mix of operating systems, this may be a tweak for you.This issue was documented in

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The public release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 comes out on April 29. I'm downloading it now (benefits of TechNet and MSDN) and will have it installed this weekend. The ISO is 544MB for 32-bit, so I'll see where this weighs in against the size of SP2.

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I had not heard of this reference before but picked it out of Raymond Chen's blog, and it struck a chord with me.Brooks' Law as it refers to software development states "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". The same principals I've found also apply to projects - usually throwing more people at a project mid-stream has more negative than positive effects.

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It appears the greatest threat to our way of life is...Polar Bears!http://sciam.vo.llnwd.net/o16/60s/mov/polar_bears.m4vOnly in America

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I mentioned before that Windows Server 2008 final release is SP1. Microsoft has published a KB article (MSKB 94960) on it so at least I now have a reference as to why.

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I found that it's near impossible to install Ubuntu 7.10 under Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, it keeps coming up with the "can't mount CD-ROM" error during the hardware detecting for install. Even using the kernel option ide=nodma (which worked for installs on ancient computers with old CD-ROM's) doesn't fix it.I did however come across a good reference for installing Fedora 8 on Virtual PC, I'm

Chris Hutchcrofthttps://profiles.google.com/112672191524439619754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10571256.post-46339496508494777672008-03-05T23:31:00.000-08:002008-03-06T21:34:59.747-08:00

This reference came up (thanks to The Sean Blog for the tip) with a new whitepaper on tuning the SQL back-end for MOSS and WSS. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409Given our ever-growing use of SharePoint, this could come in handy.

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Windows Vista SP1 was released last week with Server 2008 SP1 (went straight to SP1 for the initial release to keep the same service pack level with Vista).I decided to run it first on the Toshiba Tablet. Not knowing that to expect, it was pretty straightforward - just remember to check the 'automatically reboot computer' option as the install takes a while and it warns of this (though at least

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This blog The Hutchcroft Geek Zone is now under a new URL. The old site name should redirect, but going forward this site's address is:http://blog.chrishutchcroft.com

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It looks like a lot of effort has gone into automating solving the Rubik's Cube. This one was done with Lego Mindstorms. I'm wondering if it's possible to do the same but make it faster by programming in advanced moves? This could be a bit of a challenge, this version already solves it in 3:30 or less.

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A cool tool I'll have to try outhttp://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Switchblade and it's cousin http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Hacksaw

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I had DVD Shrink 3.2 working on Vista earlier - the first couple of installs on Vista Ultimate worked good. I had it working on my Vista Business computer, but at some point it stopped working properly. DVD Shrink would launch, and pull up a list of discs, but when I selected my physical DVD drive Z: it would come up with an error:DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue.Failed to

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Just having had to reinstall a few applications on my PPC-6700, the one that became essential was PHM Registry Editor. Really, who doesn't build a registry editor into an OS? Note to self - check back with Windows Mobile 6.The one to use for the PPC-6700 is PHM Registry Editor and use the regedit.Mrln_ARM.CAB build. Copy the CAB to a temp folder on the PDA and install from there.

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This video solves all of the IT integration problems, courtesy of Will It Blend?

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It's Star Wars. It's Lego. It's a soundtrack!All in one!

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