Windows Home Server for me.
There's also a thread on cloud backup that you might want to read :)
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Bec Carter
Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:06 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: [OT]
...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Bec Carter
Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:17 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] Backups
Oops I forgot to say I don't want to backup to the cloud. I won't always have
net access anyways.
I shall look into Windows Home Server. Thanks
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Ken
If the entire machine is locking up, then I concur with previous posters that
this is most likely a hardware issue.
User mode applications are not going to cause your entire machine to stop
responding. Also, if the machine is hanging even during the boot process, then
I doubt any Adobe product
Probably doubtful, as they have no contract with the end-party.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Ridland
Sent: Monday, 23 May 2011 1:43 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Help I'm being threatened.
Hi
While building a website for
I think that's a desktop with a battery personally :-)
You could carry around three Sony Zs for the same weight.
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 8:40
I'd recommend a convertible model then, rather than a pure slate. Trying to
work in MS Project would require a mouse/keyboard to do any effective work.
Toshiba M780, Lenovo X220T, HP 2740P etc.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of
Most of the mini machines have a pretty cramped keyboard. I would not use it
for dev work (or any serious typing). The screen resolution tends to be low as
well.
Powering an external, high res monitor can be painful, depending on what sort
of graphics chip it has.
For skype/web browsing etc,
I ordered my sick bags too, but they didn't arrive in time. So now my retinas
have to endure the burden of reading email from people who evidently have
enough time to pound out whinging emails to email lists in between retching. I
wish they would retch more, and email less.
(just joking, but I
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Richard Carde
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 2:46 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: adding ssl to asp.net website
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Anthony
asale...@tpg.com.aumailto:asale...@tpg.com.au wrote:
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of David Connors
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 5:12 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: adding ssl to asp.net website
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote
Hi,
Just note that the logging location can be set at the web server, web site,
folder and file level (in case you are using this code for someone else's IIS
server)
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Saturday,
Hi,
That's because the default settings do not allow overriding at a lower level.
But that prohibition on overriding can be changed (at any level). If this is
just for your own server, then there's no issue. If this is code to run on
other people's servers, then it's a different story :)
What do you think XP Mode is?
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Chris Walsh
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 1:28 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives
Haha, when one talks about Virtualization, one shouldn't
: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives
I know what XP Mode is, Virtual PC by itself is worse than the XP Mode
implementation of it.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:44 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE
There’s no way that people are going to be able to use software installed on
the laptop to do work. There’s no enterprise, especially a bank, that would
allow such a thing (banks, especially, have regulatory requirements to meet).
I’m going to strongly suspect that access to company apps will
-mail in error please contact the
sender immediately and then delete the message and any attachment(s).
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Wednesday, 30
HI,
You have a physical host that is a DC, and you then have a server as a guest VM
(that is presumably joined to the DC’s domain?)
If the physical machine goes bust, you’re going to have to create a new DC, and
rejoin the machine to the new domain. This means your previous user accounts on
Your domain level has nothing to do with your version of Windows Media Player.
I suppose you could say that the OS you are running WMP on is the issue. But
most organisations have their Domain Controllers and client machines separate,
and upgrading the domain (i.e. replacing the DCs) has no
Another option is to harness virtualisation, and split out the roles- have a DC
as a VM, and some other OS (Windows or otherwise) as a jukebox, backup server,
or whatever. That way upgrading one thing doesn’t have unintended consequences
with unrelated components
Cheers
Ken
From:
Did you logoff and log back on?
The groups in your security token are populated when you logon.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:59 AM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: [OT] Domain groups
Can you run:
whoami /groups
from a command line. That will give you a list of all the groups that is in
your current security token. Compare that to the icacls list that Jorke's
command gives.
Also, have you changed any UAC settings on your machine?
Cheers
Ken
From:
Sure it is, if you like to cook like this:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-12-28/
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of mike smith
Sent: Friday, 18 February 2011 10:08 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Something for Friday
Well, actually,
Trying just running the larger file. You might be able to upgrade the
installation. I know that you can upgrade from Express to Standard or
Enterprise this way (i.e. without uninstalling first)
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of
Grant EXEC permission on the sproc to your accounts (assuming you don't have
too many of them).
That said, the use of SQL Server accounts is also diminishing in most large
environments because SQL Server doesn't provide the sort of monitoring/logging
of SQL Server accounts as is available for
What software do you have running on the machine? (run msinfo32 and provide the
list of running software). I suspect you have an Explorer shell extension
that’s causing the problem
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Peter Maddin
Hi,
The inbuilt Users group contains all authenticated users (including IIS_IUSRS
and IUSR).
The IIS_IUSRS group dynamically contains all accounts for web app pool
identities - IIS adds these automatically. This supports the dynamic IIS
AppPool\AppPoolName accounts - so that when they are
Some other places Greg could try:
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-IIS-7-Kenneth-Schaefer/dp/0470097825/
www.iis.nethttp://www.iis.net (is Microsoft's IIS site, has a very active
forum. But the advice there will be the same as here IMHO)
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2011 12:48 PM
To: g...@aquarius.com.au; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: 500 - Internal server error
Glen, Ken, Folks
After a couple of hours, thanks for procmon telling which
A couple of things:
a) IIS 7 doesn't display anything detailed when accessed remotely, unless
you change a configuration to allow detailed error messages to be displayed
remotely. Try accessing the service locally on the server, and see if you get
something more detailed.
b) IIS 7
Did you try any of the suggestions given to you yesterday to get a more
descriptive error message from an appropriate source (IIS, http.sys or Windows
Event Log)?
Making random configuration changes in the hope that it fixes the problem
usually isn't a productive way to solve problems in my
You can give permissions to that account using icacls.
It's a dynamically created user identity. It's for security reasons. Here is an
explanation, and also how to use icacls to set the permissions:
http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2008/01/29/15759.aspx
Failed Request Tracing is
If you have MSDN, just install Windows Server 2008 R2, and then install the
Hyper-R role. The alternative (Server Core install or Hyper-V Server install)
gives you cmd.exe as a shell only. If you only have a single box and don't come
from a IT sysadmin background, then doing everything using a
: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?
This sounds like a htc/telco agreement..more dat across the air..more money
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 6:48 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:07 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?
No - there is no more data. MSFT posted officially that it's a performance
issue. In order to deliver adequate
Apparently most of these phones use SD cards for their storage (even if
soldered to the board). Some appear to be replaceable (buy you may void your
warranty). You will also lose all your data as the phone creates a file system
that unifies the storage across any onboard storage and the SD
Sony Z series? The screen might be a bit small though (13)
FWIW, when working at my desk at home, I have two monitors connected (one via
HDMI, and one via a USB video card), so I don't really use the laptop panel at
all.
I wouldn't be too hung up about the 8GB of RAM. 8GB SoDIMMS are only just
You can't download anything - just access your pre-existing product keys.
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of silky
Sent: Friday, 26 November 2010 1:07 PM
To: Ken Schaefer
Cc: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Friday
MSDN subscriptions page, after you login, should show your expired
subscriptions.
I don't think this is an MSDN problem :-) You forgot your identifier.
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of silky
Sent:
Also, if you sign into MSDN subscriptions using the Live ID that your previous
subscriptions were under, then you should still have access to your old product
keys, even though you can't download anything. Office 2003 had a static
activation key from memory.
Cheers
Ken
From:
or is that still a
reasonable thing to do given there are other systems in the enterprise that are
10-20 years old?
Cheers,
Ben
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 1
Hi,
Just because a UI is now in neat HTML doesn’t mean that every backend system,
and every other system used to access this data, can cope.
I worked on Westpac’s IB upgrade project (the monitoring part) and it’s a huge
amount of work just to upgrade one small part of it.
Cheers
Ken
From:
make it to the right person but at least I tried.
cheers,
Stephen
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Hi,
Just because a UI is now in neat HTML doesn’t mean that every backend
system, and every other system used to access
A failure of some kind at Navitaire. It also had a small impact on Jetstar.
VAust uses Amadeus - I don't think they were affected - only the domestic ops
of Virgin Blue.
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf
Some people want to know whether it's worth investing in a platform - i.e. will
it have a foreseeable future, or is it a dead end?
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of silky
Sent: Wednesday, 22 September
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of silky
Subject: Password Reset, was Re: 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects
Millions of ASP.NET Apps
Personally, I'll settle for never seeing my current password being
sent to
There can be intermediate CAs between the root CA, and the actual issuing CA.
You'd need all the certs in between so as to be able to chain the cert back to
its root CA's cert.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent:
That is the way that e-Ink works. The battery is used to reset the display to
whatever the new content is. Battery isn't used (AFAIK) to display a static
page.
I found that I got used to it pretty quickly and it doesn't bother me anymore.
I'm assuming you are seeing the screen flip to black
I've played with doesn't do that.
David
If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
-Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 22:36, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
That is the way that e-Ink works. The battery
Access used to have JRO (Jet Replication Objects) for replicating two Access
(Jet) databases. Dunno if that's an option.
Alternatively, can you keep the Access front end, and just put the data into a
backend SQL Server?
Cheers
Ken
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
I have a Samsung phone that has an AMOLED screen, and it’s only marginally
better than an LED screen for outdoor use. It’s still completely different to
e-Ink.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of mike smith
Sent: Friday, 3
You definitely need external lighting if it's dark. However both devices I had
(Sony and Kindle) have a number of zoom options (the kindle has about 6-7
levels of zoom). E-book formats are design to be re-flowable (like HTML) so you
can easily zoom in/out
Cheers
Ken
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?
Generally speaking are they easier on the eye to read in a well lit room?
|-Original Message-
|From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-
|boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
|Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 12:35 PM
|To: ozDotNet
|Subject: RE: verdict on kindle
The small kindle is very light and quite small. The DX, I think, would be the
smallest you could get to read A4 PDFs (at least in portrait mode)
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of David Burstin
Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2010
/newspapers/magazines.
Cheers
Ken
-Original Message-
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of silky
Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2010 3:31 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ken Schaefer
Protocol Transition is a feature of the server where the service resides
Client --- Server1 Server2
If Client --- Server1 is NTLM (or Digest), then Server1 can do Protocol
Transition and get a Kerberos ticket for Server2 service, even if the original
protocol is not natively delegatable
What type of books will you reading? Do you need to order books directly from
the reader, or are you happy to buy on your PC and transfer? How important is
it that the store have Australian rights (i.e. you can easily buy using an
Australian CC?)
The Sony models are the classiest (I have an
VMWare Server isn’t really designed as a desktop virtualisation product (hence
the “server” part of the name). That said, it is free.
I’d try VMWare Workstation and see if that solves your problem (I have no
issues running Win7 clients in VMWare Workstation), or you can use the free
VMWare
STOP 0x7B = INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
Look at the next set of parameters, it might tell you what it what it's looking
for. However BIOS settings and fan speeds are unlikely to be the issue.
What OS are you using? You can do a startup repair in Windows 7 or a Repair
install in XP. I can't
Hi,
If this is XP, you can try a Recovery Install. This should preserve user
accounts, but you may need to reinstall some applications as well as service
packs/patches. This is not the same as Recovery Console. It's where you choose
to install Windows again, but it detects that there is an
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of David Connors
Sent: Thursday, 15 July 2010 6:49 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] My Win 7 PC too slow..disk queue time issue solved
On 15 July 2010 00:03, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
These days, disk I
I don't know about the contract market here in SG. But I work for HP here at
the moment.
Compared to Australia: tax rates much cheaper. Cost of accommodation much
higher - and leases are usually 12-24 months.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of mike smith
Sent: Monday, 12 July 2010 2:24 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet
Filter
On 10 July 2010 15:40, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Hi,
As mentioned – debt
Connors
da...@codify.commailto:da...@codify.com wrote:
On 12 July 2010 17:28, Ken Schaefer
k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
But saying don't buy from the Chinese is just self-defeating. Then the
Chinese shouldn't buy our coal. Or Americans shouldn't buy Dr Low's consulting
All that debt incurred was income someone else earned, and which be invested,
and used to pay back the government (in higher taxes) down the track. Spending
money doesn't just make it disappear somewhere - every dollar spent is
someone else's dollar earned.
Debt itself isn't a problem - just
Poor contracts are definitely a problem. The rest (IMHO) is a combination of
science and art, and when you have enormous projects then:
a) You simply can’t hire 500 “a-team” people
b) There is way more complexity and requirements than people imagine in
the beginning
c)
+1
terrible is one of those subjective adjectives that casts the subject in a
negative light, and by implication the person who posted it. If you are going
to take pot-shots from the sidelines (i.e. not provide an illustrative counter
example to demonstrate your point) then you should keep
I'm just looking through this:
You say you have the little yellow triangle icon in IE? And when you
double-click on this you get a Permission Denied error message in the
explanatory dialogue? If so, this is a client-side issue: there is some
permission denied on some javascript object or
No problems that I know of with current Dell models (and we have about 5k-6k of
them). The last time I can remember this being a problem was with a D600, and
that was many years ago.
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of
The limitation is the speed of 5400 RPM drives. Neither FW nor eSATA in common
laptop (2.5” enclosures) supply power, so you have to carry extra cables (power
or USB) to power the thing, and you end up using a USB port as well.
Unless you want to run VMs off this thing, just stick to USB 2.0 –
This is not an Outlook problem – this is a malformed message problem…
Though Outlook does have its own share of issues…
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of David Connors
Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:21 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject:
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