Posted in Development, Future Howard, Microsoft on Mar 11th, 2010
I always forget this in between using it, so for the benefit of future Howard, here’s how to fix orphaned users resulting from restoring a SQL database to a different machine.
First, list the orphan users to make sure this is the problem:
EXEC sp_change_users_login ‘Report’
Usually I already have the login and password set up on the [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Virtualisation on Feb 3rd, 2010
The Windows Server Performance team show how to increase network throughput to guest VMs on Hyper-V. Linking here for Future-Howard, who will certainly need it again.
Windows Server Performance Team Blog : Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs.
Posted in Future Howard, Hardware, Virtualisation on Jul 30th, 2009
Some time ago I posted at length about Sony’s decision to disable the Virtualization Technology features of the Intel chips in their high-end laptops, namely my Vaio Z11.
Well thanks to the sterling efforts of one man and his EFI hacking skills, we now have a solution as this image demonstrates. The image on [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Hardware, Microsoft, Tech Support on Aug 29th, 2008
I’m rebuilding my new Sony Vaio Z with Windows XP, and as usual there are a load of tweaks I need to make to the OS before I feel “at home” again. Since the fingerprint reader software on the new build has an annoying habit of popping up info balloons on every boot – regardless [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Microsoft, Software on Jul 10th, 2008
Another post from the “helping future Howard” category. I use Outlook 2007, which is great, but in order to be able to search your email with decent performance you must install Windows Desktop Search. Unfortunately when you do this it integrates with Explorer without asking permission to do so. This means that should you hit [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Infrastructure, Networking on Dec 1st, 2007
I keep needing to do this – so once again to help my future self:
When you have a number of public IPs being translated through a router to an internal address space, a router’s dynamic translation can get full. I’ve got an 877W, and it seems that a combination of running BitTorrent and a [...]
Posted in Development, Future Howard, Software on Jul 31st, 2007
This code translator is very handy. Give it some C# and it will spit out VB.NET, give it VB.NET and it’ll give you C#. Some of the code samples for manipulating Word documents are in VB.NET and I wanted to see them in C#. I could have tried to translate them myself but this saved [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Virtualisation on Jul 23rd, 2007
Again, a techy post more for my future self’s benefit (so little space in my memory for anything useful, it being full of StarTrek trivia and the like). A trick to optimise a VHD (Microsoft’s Virtual Harddrive format – used in Virtual PC and Virtual Server). Turn of the system file checker. Not [...]