Installed this operating system – click here for fedora 13 – on a 2nd partition on my laptop. I installed the full x64 DVD iso version. Needed to get the wireless card working, this is what l did. My first partition already has Windows 7 installed. Both operating systems co-exist perfectly. Make sure you install [...]
If you own a Samsung pocket camera, such as the Samsung TL-100 which records HD video [720 resolution], you probably have problems playing the AVI video files on your window PC media player. You might want to try using DivX or simply downloading and installing Xvid Codec – GNU from xvid.org. See also this link. [...]
I’ve been looking for a “free” alternative to Microsoft Office 2007 for general work on my laptop. I decided to try out OpenOffice which l know is installed on my Ubuntu linux partition. Theres a windows version which installs pretty quickly and with no problems on Windows 7 – l use Windows 7 64bit Home [...]
Finally decided to revisit my home network – LAN and Wireless, especially with respect to wifi security. My setup essentially is this: a private Gigabit Local Area Network [LAN] using 192.168.0.x ip address range served by a dhcp server running off Smoothwall Express – an open source based excellent firewall program. I downloaded the iso [...]
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 beta software requires the following: Application server role, web server IIS Role SQL Server 2008 native client Microsoft “Geneva” framework runtime Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft Framework 3.5 Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOCMD.NET I attempted to install this on a development Windows 2008 R2 server, which already [...]
Here is a link and interesting discuss on doing this if you use comcast. Here is a direct link to their solution webpage. Here is the link to OpenDNS. I’ve always found it annoying when you get redirected to a comcast search control+ad page, or a bing.com page when you mistype a url. This might [...]
This link is very useful and details how to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, on different servers. – Microsoft Knowledge Base: #246133
Got this error a lot when trying to add NT user accounts on a SQL Server 2008 installation that was connected to a Windows 2008R2 server running Active Directory 2008 at Windows 2000 functional level. Same error message appeared when troubleshooting this from a SQL Server 2005 instance in the same server environment. You’ll keep [...]
Notes on setting up the sample database – adventureworks [click here] for Microsoft’s cloud computing sql server called Azure: you need an account – get one from sql.azure.com – it takes some time for your access information to arrive by email. download the sample database using link above extract/unzip to a known location make sure [...]
Adventure works sample databases are now available for Microsoft’s SQL Azure at codeplex – click here.