Archive: November, 2008

Remove Live Messenger Ads

No comments November 24th, 2008

If you are connected to Live Messenger 24 hours a day like I am, you are undoubtedly annoyed by those ads down the bottom that pop-up and make a noise if your mouse cursor happens to go anywhere near them..

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A simple way to get rid of them is with APatch (www.apatch.org). Download it, run it and on page 2/6 check the “Remove Advertisement” checkbox, complete the wizard and there you go, ad free messenger!

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OCS 2007 R2

No comments November 24th, 2008

Microsoft have announced the release of Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Customers will be able to purchase the release, currently in private beta testing, beginning in February 2009.

A few of the new features are:

  • Dial-in audioconferencing
  • Desktop sharing
  • Persistent group chat
  • Attendant console and delegation
  • APIs and Visual Studio integration

For more info, click here

ISA 2006 – High MSDE memory usage

No comments November 24th, 2008

I came across this issues on a ISA 2006 proxy server the other day. Basically, if you are logging to a MSDE database you may experience high memory usage by SQL server because the amount of physical memory that is allocated for SQL Server is not limited by default.

capIt is possible to limit the amount of physical memory that is allocated for SQL Server. Recommended values are:

System Memory – Setting

1 GB – 386 MB

2 GB – 512 MB

3 GB – 764 MB

4 GB – 1024 MB

For detailed information on how to set these limits, see the following Microsoft KB article

OS X Cant write to external disk

No comments November 24th, 2008

Err.. yeah.. so, there you are, you need to copy something from your apple mac to your external disk, but it wont allow you.. the disk is not full and it works perfectly on windows.??

I recently encountered this problem, the drive was formatted as NTFS (and why wouldn’t it be?) turns out macs can read files off NTFS drives, but they cannot write to an NTFS drive.

Ok, so what now? You can format your external hard drive as FAT32 partition or NTFS-3G

NTFS-3G is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, BeOS and Haiku. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Once installed, it will allow you to write to your NTFS drive without a problem!

WIFI and Hyper-V

No comments November 24th, 2008

Anyone who has played around with server 2008 and hyper-v would have noticed that you are not able to bind a virtual network to a wireless network adapter and more than likely (although i have not personally tested it) a 3g or other mobile broadband card. I guess the reason for this is that most people would probably not need to do this, BUT, I did.. after asking google, I found 3 ways around this, my preferred method is the last one.

Methods: