Windows 7 variants

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Thanks to the people behind http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutils/ I could help someone with a laptop that had a completely broken harddisk with Windows 7 home premium installed. Off course never made a backup / recovery DVD so my hands were empty.

Using the eicfg removal utility is a pice of cake and the result nice:

Windows 7 universal install DVDA universal installer DVD is always handy.

But the subject covers this post very well: the Windows 7 DVD I used with eicfg removal utility is unusable for a Packard Bell laptop as is explained on Microsoft answers (in dutch) http://answers.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/product-key-home-premium-werkt-niet/756bbf93-1977-42b0-a3aa-c6c594d19974

PostgreSQL database encoding

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My personal favorite database is PostgreSQL. In the time I started with it, it cold hold large objects, in my case images and still am very satisfied with it.

http://qatsi.ath.cx/cgi-bin/cath_pub?laatste is an example of it. The images shown are not retrieved directly from the database, but that’s another issue.

Creating new databases I wondered about the encoding to use and stumbled over this page: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2004-11/msg00075.php

So for now a reasonable encoding is utf8.

 

 

HP Proliant DL380 G5 network issues, update your firmware!

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At work we where having troubles with HP Proliant DL380 G5 servers: after 2 days or so the server – both Windows server 2003 and 2008 – is only reachable at the network shares. No login possible, neither at the console or trough rdp.

It started with a Windows Server 2003 and I found a registry entry that made it possible to login and then reboot the server. The registry modification is described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815266

Lately a Windows Server 2008 started having the same network issues. Updating the NIC and RAID controller drivers didn’t solve the issues, but changed the behaviour – made the server faster unreachable.

That made me download the latest firmware DVD, run it in auto mode. And low and behold the server stays reachable and does its job!

Other server have jet to be updated, but that’s a matter of time.

So keep your firmware up to date!

 

 

 

 

Windows 7, rdp server 2008 and 2003

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Last week I had a new surprise connecting with rdp on a Windows 7 box to a 2008 server left the remote desktop connection startscreen forever there after asking for the credentials. The only way to end rdp was with taskmanager or logging off leaving a unclear eventid 1002 in the eventlog. But I was still able to connect to Windows 2003 servers (apologies for the dutch text):

Stumbling upon a page that it is certificate related I renamed the Windows 7 box and low and behold I could make a rdp connection to the Windows 2008 servers! After renaming the box back to its original name it still worked.

Anyone who can shed inside info is welcome.

HP NIC teaming and HyperV

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The HP ML350G6 comes default with two network interfaces which can be teamed with the driver software. But if you have HyperV installed before the network interfaces are teamed, then teaming won’t work, until HyperV is removed. First when HyperV is removed you are able to team the network interfaces. After this you can install HyperV and use the teamed NIC.