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I've been using VMWare Server 2 on a Vista 64 host to simulate a network environment for testing our operating procedures. Everything was working fine before I got on holiday. Now I am back for 2 weeks, and suddenly, VMWare thorws a wobbler. Using...
It's been a while since I blogged here. Lack of inspiration, lack of time, lack of interest... Over the past couple of months, I've been occupied with other stuff. The guest bathroom needed finishing, and my wife had a number of creative ideas...
This is what I got in the event logs yesterday afternoon: Event Type: Error Event Source: Kerberos Event Category: None Event ID: 4 Computer: SE-SMURF01 Description: The kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error from the server PC-BLABLA09...
The scheduled task for running ntbackup on our fileserver would not run anymore. It would stop with a return code of 0x80, and nothing worthwhile in the log file or event log. It ran fine for months, apart from the occasional hickup such as having no...
If you find a bug in Visual Studio, report it on http://connect.microsoft.com If the bug affects the version of VS that is in development at that time, there is a significant chance it will get fixed before the next release. Just this week I got confirmation...
We are going through an unusual spell of cold weather at the moment. It was -15C when I left for work this morning. The intense cold also caused some of the outside water pipes on our site to freeze. In particular, the ones running to the temporary trailers...
Blogs are funny things. We all have different reasons to write blog posts. Apart form the general stuff that almost everybody sometimes writes about (opinion pieces, general comments about something or other) I like writing tech articles. Programming...
I've had a weird problem on my development station for some time now. Every time I ended a debugging session of a C# project, visual studio froze for about 10 seconds. It also happened if I changed project settings, but I never had any problems with...
I have been silent on my blog for the last couple of weeks. This is because I spent all my time preparing for my first Microsoft exam in a couple of years. But it has been worth it. Today I passed the Microsoft certification exam 70-290: Managing and...
One of the forums that I visit daily (well, I am the moderator after all...) has a funny picture thread. This one made me laugh out loud:
Last week I bought myself a zune, and since my main computer during the day is my company laptop, I wanted to install it on that one. Unfortunately, going to zune.net didn;t help because the first thing the installer does is to check if Windows Update...
This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a long time, but I finally got around to finishing this blog post. The knife shop in a nearby city held a firesale, and my wife told me I could go and have a look and see if there was anything worth having...
Something I picked up on slashdot today: Microsoft is checking if people would want an 'instant on' version of Windows . As compelling as it sounds, I don't think it is that big a deal, and they shouldn't waste their time with it. These...
I haven't had the time to write up anything interesting this week because I had to replace a fileserver on my network. Rplacing the server itself and restoring the data took only a couple of hours, but I am still working on the paperwork. You see...
Hardly worth mentioning, but there is a minor bug in the documentation of fopen and its friends. The remarks section lists the open mode encoding for 16 bit unicode as UTF16-LE instead of UTF-16LE. As I said it is very minor, but if you use fopen, care...
Yesterday I had to install VS2008 SP1 on a computer with limited disk space on C:\ Even though VS2008 itself was installed on D:\ the installer (which is 800MB) still required 3.3 GB of space on C:\ I molested C: until I had enough space to perform the...
Here is another person who needs to learn some netiquette (emphasis mine). Hey, well, I will not describe my situation because it is not part of my question and has nothing directly to do with it and would only lead to false assumptions as it already...
One of the downsides of working for a big corporation is that there are strict rules for dealing with obsolete equipment. We have 3 DELL 2600 servers with Dual CPU Xeon cpu, SCSI raid5, 4GB RAM ready to make their final trip to the dumpster. We cannot...
I hang out in the MSDN forums on a regular basis, to see if there’re any questions that need answering. Usualy this is pretty unexciting, but every now and again, the asker really needs a reality check. This thread came up some time ago, and it...
I just stumbled upon the engineering blog for Windows 7 . Seems interesting enough to follow in order to have a better idea about what Windows 7 will be like from a technical point of view.
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