Last night we purchase an Apple TV (as well as a Mac Mini, 20″ Cinema Display Monitor, wired keyboard, and wireless mouse). Today I had the unfortunate happenstance of making this little gem of a unit find, and talk to iTunes running on my Mac Pro. I’ll save you the gory details buy my switch… Continue reading No Really, Apple TV Doesn’t Suck

I wanted to report that I succeeded in using iSCSI (on an Openfiler server) with Time Machine via a gigabit link with jumbo frames (MTU of 9000) enabled. The secret to my success? I used the iSCSI initiator from http://www.small-tree.com/. It appears as if the iSCSI initiator from globalSAN is just a plain broke down… Continue reading Apple Mac Time Machine and iSCSI

Ok, I first have to say how blown away I am that I was able to get this to work. Here’s the scenario. I was unsuccessful in having VMWare Fusion run my Vista x64 Boot Camp partition (probably for this reason). After many fits and starts, the plan was to create a Vista Complete PC… Continue reading HOWTO Resolve a 7B Stop Error in a Restored Vista x64 Complete PC Restore Image in VMWare Fusion

I run an XP virtual machine because our ERP app does not run on Vista Business (or any version of Vista). I also use this environment for development work in and around our ERP application. So, today I was installing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services. Since this includes Reporting Services, I need… Continue reading Add/Remove Windows Feature Error

As a follow up to my prior post about my new Teletype Bluetooth GPS Receiver, I found that the having the two devices was way too difficult to manage. Well, that coupled with my need for the latest and greatest BlackBerry, I now have a T-Mobile 8800 with built-in GPS receiver. The software stays the… Continue reading TeleNav and my New 8800

I wrote my first useful Powershell script today. I had a directory of bitmaps and I wanted to convert them to PNG. This is a relatively easy task in .NET. All I had to do was figure out how to do this within Powershell. The script is as such: foreach($file in Get-ChildItem *.BMP) { echo… Continue reading My First Powershell Script

I just started using a Bluetooth GPS receiver from Teletype. It seems to work well when I toss the device up onto the dash. Initially, I used the freely available BlackBerry Maps from RIM, however, the lack of voice guided turn-by-turn directions makes it useless while driving. After a quick Google search for BlackBerry GPS… Continue reading Teletype Bluetooth GPS Receiver on my BlackBerry 8700

OK, maybe I’m being a snob, but I think that the global.asax file is for kids who don’t know anything about HttpModules. Any web app developer worth their salt would prefer to code up an HttpModule than waste time in a file that, IMHO, is just weird. Anyway, this is what I pimped out the… Continue reading Am I a Snob?

Ok, so I spent probably a week and half banging my head against the keyboard trying to figure out why my Polycom 601 wasn’t receiving audio from an FXO voice-port connected to the PSTN on my Cisco 2620XM router/gateway. I can’t tell you how many times I typed show run, scratched my head, ran trace… Continue reading Can I get a SIP?

At work we are in the process of migrating from a legacy accounting system to Microsoft’s Navision Attain. The legacy app is running on a SCO OpenServer 3.2v2 box. The guy supporting the app wrote a dump utility that creates ASCII files of the data. The trick to get the data from the box. The… Continue reading HOWTO Get SCO Compress To Play Nice With Gzip