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Running a DotNet Framework 2.0 from a network share or an UNC path just plain doesn’t work. You get an error message such as the the one to the right.

I pretty much never thought much of it, because in some mysterious way I never encountered a situation where this might be an actual problem. Well. A couple a weeks ago a customer hit into this problem, and for a reason or another they really needed to run their application (not admodify.net!) from a network share.

Here’s a couple of links on the issue and remedy:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320268
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a0ke3k86(VS.71).aspx

However, for the brave one, here’s an example wildcard solution. Run it from a CMD prompt from within C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

caspol -m -ag 1 -url "file://\\*" FullTrust -exclusive on

I always thought of my site as a public notepad. I guess I have once again regressed  back to putting notes in Notepad.exe and putting URLs and binaries to a web drive that no one, except perhaps me, benefits of.

It’s not like I’ve been personally doing anything fancy, I’m just gathering and building upon other peoples achievements. I’m having a bit of a rough time as my interest sphere is quite over encompassing and feeling a bit uncertain of where to at technology wise – what to consult, what to advice…I’m not sure, I’m confused and I’m undecided. Certainly my work-life points me to a certain direction, and that’s a relief, but at the same time, real-life and autistic interest point to a much broader direction.

That’s my random thought    

This yet another dump of old stuff

Over the years there have been a lot of talk about tuning the Visual Effects settings in a Terminal Server environment, more recently the same talk in XP VDI scenarios. I guess I never quite understood the fuzz, except that the common suggestion of VisualFXSetting”= (your preference) doesn’t really do anything

For clarification, this is what I’m talking about:

My Computer | Properties | Advanced
-> Performance | Settings | Visual Effects

Here’s a deliverable for some customer some time ago.
Oh yeah, it’s not my batch. I found the batch when I resarched the matter. I made slight modifications to meet the demand.  All credit to the original author.

 
This is straightforward from the trenches. Windows 2003 is showing age, but is still widely used.

I commented the settings with a KB article, when available. Even to my best effort some things got undocumented, such as the Microsoft Performance Team suggestions (NoRemoteChangeNotify is not included, I had that as an option in my .adm template, but people turned on that setting without knowing… see KB 831129 for more info. Quite for the same reasons I left the TCP offloading stuff commented away)

I remember VMware since 1999 until today. Great software, overall the best platform, even today. Now, times have changed. Being overtaxed by VMware in the data center one has to look for alternatives.

Throw it all over me, throw in the few. We have the XEN, Hyper-V and emerging KVM.

In basic we have the ~80-90 percent Widows with some RHEL and SLES thrown in the mix, the others are quite absent (or not v-candidates) in the enterprise. This leaves with a simple conclusion that the XEN, Hyper-V and KVM trio have good run in the specific rather than in the overall run – with a price mark closer to affordable.

As a technical guy I feel sadness.

In my rationale I’ll suggest to put certain offloads to XEN for performance (X->H-V waiting (?)), Use Hyper-V for all other offloads. Watch the KVM space, watch every space.

Did you know that Citrix was originally supposed to be Citrus? Well, the name was already taken but that didn’t hinder them from, eventually, turning into sour. Anyhow that’s not the topic here. Broken WMI is, and that overlay product on top of TS/RDS commonly referred to as Citrix. 

//Update
Found an official Citrix article (ctx119767)  So now I might just go ahead and WMI myself silly

Original reference from Citrix Forums, courtesy of all.

Here’s some sample code (totals)  –> CitrixLicenseStatus

So, my kid brother is in Sydney, down under, cuddling Koalas and boxing Kangaroos. Well, the saved money was running dry and he didn’t take my advice of taking a job carrying banana boxes back and forth in the Sydney harbor (gah! that’s a good job as any!), no siree, instead he ventured into doing some White Hat SEO stuff.

As the helpful brother I am, I decided to help him out so that he didn’t have to SEO stuff for others but have this entire planet desperately SEO his search engine instead.

Here’s a screenshot of the prototype version. Any resemblance to an actual search engine is entirely coincidental.

At home I’m still using my age-old Linksys WRT54GS router, it’s such a fantastic piece of hardware! Back when I bought the the router I tested various alternative firmware’s, but settled for OpenWrt/X-Wrt.   

Well, a few days ago when I felt  it was that upgrade time again I thought to have another try at the other firmware’s again. That’s when I instantly fell in love with (a) Tomato! I mean, just the name! Who the hell would call a router Tomato?! By that definition it had to be something extra special.  And, boy it certainly was!

Check out linksysinfo.org forums for more info, add-ons and mods. The picture above is from the latest Vicitec Mod of Tomato that I’m currently running.

The initial joy was severely taken down when I found out that Kimmo was the dog in the magazine. Damn!

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The reference was made to Jonas Birgersson, a classical figure in Swedish IT culture.

I’m not so much into music /your typical radio guy, but sometimes I’d like to listen to recent/way back tunes. Downloading gets tiresome as it’s now and here,  then – Gone!

Spotify provides a good alternative but how long will it last? Already are we seeing rights owners (quite  NOT…another topic) quietly disappearing. Are the revenues displeasing?

[Edit 09-01-29] Seems I beated Spotify blog on this with 11 days