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    

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.

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)

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.

//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

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.

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.

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