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 Development, Internet, Microsoft on Mar 8th, 2010
I spent some time last weekend migrating the Work Avoidance site away from Gradwell and onto a dedicated virtual server from MEMSET. Since this involved a move to a Windows box away from UNIX hosting, I had to configure in IIS7 some of the settings I had in the .htaccess under the UNIX host.
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 Cinema, HDTV, Hardware, Microsoft, Software on Jul 12th, 2008
When I originally built my HTPC, I used 2 Freeview cards. Each Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T500 has two Freeview tuners in one PCI card. By installing two of these (and with some registry tweaking) it is possible to build a device that can record/watch 4 Freeview channels at once.
Out of the box the Vista Media Centre GUI [...]
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 Microsoft, Networking, Virtualisation on Jan 30th, 2008
I’m looking for help here.
The image (click to embiggen) you see here is a screen capture of one of my virtual machines suffering some form of graphic corruption. It should look like this. This happens often enough now that it is seriously irritating. I can make it go away by closing VMRC and [...]
I use Winamp to play mp3s. I always have done – it’s lightweight, I like the interface and it has the few plugins I need. I don’t need the bloat of iTunes or Windows Media Player. However, I seem to have Windows Media Player installed – I don’t remember installing it, and I probably wouldn’t [...]
Apple updated BootCamp today and introduced support for Windows Vista, so it looks like I can spend some time over the weekend doing a fresh install of Vista with supported drivers this time. Of course it also means I get to have some fun removing the Microsoft Bluetooth stack and replacing it with a fully [...]
The public beta of Internet Explorer 7 has been out for a while now, and like the good Microsoft soldier I am, I installed it this week. It’s very nice. If you’ve only ever used IE it’ll be full of neat new toys that you’ve never seen before. If you’ve been using Firefox or Safari, [...]
Posted in Apple, Games, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Software, Virtualisation on Apr 19th, 2006
Richard sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article along with the message “You’ll love this one…” If you’ve followed the Windows on Mac saga recently go and read it now, if you’re anything like me and Richard you’ll have plenty to say on the subject once you’ve finished reading.
I couldn’t believe [...]