Channel 9 - Discussions by Xenon101

Coffeehouse - Annoying new type of web ad on msnbc

Xenon101 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:02:16 GMT

I agree that when a website is ad supported they deserve to make their money and that won't happen if you block their ads.
However it is also the responsibility of the advertiser to ensure that their adverts are tried & tested in every major browser and don't break essential functionality.

Loss of scroll wheel use is seriously taking the biscuit but recently a lot of websites have been breaking this functionality.
Come on web developers! Get it sorted!

Coffeehouse - Can't connect to wireless networks in Server 2008

Xenon101 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:44:41 GMT

Hi all,
I recently decided to scrap my project on W2k3 server and start on W2k8 server (with vstudio 2008). Unfortunately I only have my laptop spare for the install, and one of the most important things I use it for is connecting to WLANs.

Now on Vista the wlan card is fine and when searching for networks a rather huge list always manages to be found. However when on Server 2008 (using same drivers and tried so many others) the card is found, I can search for networks but it finds nothing.

I recon it's either got to be Server 2008 doesn't connect to WLAN, it creates them OR the programming in the OS isn't finished yet OR the card isn't supported.

I have looked in the help which I did presume to be rather lacking during the beta, and it just says check the Windows Vista HCL. I haven't done so but the fact my pc was built for vista I presume the hardware is fine.

Has anyone else had this problem with Codename Longhorn beta 3? Or is it not a problem and I'm just trying to do something that can't be done?

Thanks in advance for anyones help

Tech Off - Windows Server 2003 doesn't see my wlan card

Xenon101 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:25:52 GMT

Is there any way to force win2k3 server to show a network card not on the HCL?

The motherboard is fine, PCI card is fine (lights all glow), windows is installed fine, but device manager doesn't even see the card.

I presume it's because the card aint on the HCL. Could be wrong though.

Coffeehouse - How Long Is Your...

Xenon101 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:23:27 GMT

My memory is random, i call a number once or twice and i'll remember it and be able to recall it anytime. Same goes for passwords, pins, ccard no's.

Long term is pretty good but at times only certain things seem to stick in my head (usually things im interested in/care about).

Short term varies from amazing to absolutely terrible. What did my friend say on the phone 2 minutes ago? No point in asking me, but what all have I downloaded in the last day or 2? I can give you the entire list including filesize, time taken and the ratio it last had when I checked the torrent proggy! Now where did I leave my cigs?

Coffeehouse - It's Official: Windows Vista RC1 Is Complete

Xenon101 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:32:09 GMT

I downloaded it in around 45 minutes at 1.10MB/s the whole way
Burned to DVD and installed on my media center box (that I use every single day for watching tv and scheduled recordings).

One thing I've noticed from Beta 2 is that the boot time has improved from 45 seconds to 35 seconds on my P4 3GHz/512MB/128MB Nvidia FX5200/120GB IDE.

Another is that media center actually runs now! If you tried it in beta 2 (at least for me) I couldn't stably even play an mp3 file. Now TV works just perfect with the latest nvidia beta driver + purevideo decoder. So does DVD playback and music.

The new interface on MCE I love, when watching TV most of the on screen display shows up over the tv with transparacy, very nice

And when you use the up/down buttons you can scroll through the channels with a short description of what's on air.

Unfortunately there's pretty much nothing else ever used on this box so I've not had a chance to test it out for much else yet but for the media center 2005 user that doesn't use anything else it's ready to upgrade

Coffeehouse - Coming Zune?

Xenon101 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:55:38 GMT

Whoever made that website clearly didn't want the public to know anything. Some crappy animation to get to a mailing list? I'd rather have had "We're all friends" pop up straight away.

And surely they could have at least put up a little picture of the thing, come on!

If the "prototype" is anything to go on it looks rather nice tho!

Coffeehouse - Corrupt media player 10?

Xenon101 — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:27:07 GMT

Well i'll give that sfc a bash later on, meanwhile i'm 100% sure my firewall is all good, as I only have windows firewall enabled and theres one that blocks external access but thats a hardware box connected to my server.

Also there's absolutely nothing to stop wmp communicating with the internal media services. It's been like this literally since the day I installed, the day before I had XP Pro and it worked

Coffeehouse - Did Yahoo! forward your e-mails to the NSA?

Xenon101 — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:27:02 GMT

Doesn't sound good to me

Coffeehouse - Corrupt media player 10?

Xenon101 — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:21 GMT

Whenever I try to connect to http or mms streams media player won't connect. I've tried with streams that are 100% guaranteed working and with an open connection to the net. It won't even connect to my local win2k3 media services

I can't re-install media player because i'm running mce 2005 which comes with media player 10 Any ideas how I could sort it, as I'm pretty sure it must be some sort of corruption causing the problem.

Tech Off - PC keeps rebooting randomly :/

Xenon101 — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:53:13 GMT

My media center pc has recently been bringing up a lot of 'blue screens' so I re-installed and removed all the PCI cards. Anyway, now it's mini-dumping a lot of the time, usually exactly when I change an mp3!

The only event in event viewer that relates is:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000024 (0x001902fe, 0xf7a46a2c, 0xf7a46728, 0xf73a449b). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini123105-05.dmp.

That tells me nothing, but maybe someone can interpret it?

Coffeehouse - Who is Channel 9 Personality of Year 2005?

Xenon101 — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:36:57 GMT

nothin wrong with enjoyin the 60s eh

Coffeehouse - VS2005 Launch Event freebies

Xenon101 — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:35:37 GMT

Just to make sure...it's cool using the SQL Server Std on a server in a datacenter right?

Coffeehouse - Media Centre Edition on XP Pro

Xenon101 — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:09:13 GMT

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is exactly like Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 except it doesn't allow domain login and there's a couple of other things. It allows IIS if you insert an xp (with sp2 slipstreamed) cd then go add/remove programs, windows comps.

There are a couple of things different though. Media Center has an improved start menu (the colours don't burn your eyes, they look nice :O). Also it's arguable that Media Center has had optimisations to explorer and other stuff that makes it run a lot faster.

Note: There's no drivers for the XP MCE remote control so you need Windows XP Media Center Edition installed for drivers. No workarounds IIRC.

Coffeehouse - VS2005 Launch Event freebies

Xenon101 — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:58:31 GMT

I'm just back from the Edinburgh event...right now

Remember we only just got the opportunity to sign up for the free cds and it says they will all be dispatched when ready, so maybe Microsoft are going to send them out to all event go-ers after all the events?

Apart from the cd's I came away having had a good day and a Microsoft bag with about 18 BizTalk cd's & 4 add-on's for SQL Server Also got lots of random Microsoft stuff to remember it by. Not bad if you ask me! They did steal my cool card though

Tech Off - Recommendations for minimum specs

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:07:26 GMT

I would like just a single box to be running everything for the extranet. SQL Server 05 could be substituted with SQL Server Express, I guess, if it is less memory hungry.

Exchange will only be powering the company staff mails and will only be available by POP3/SMTP/OWA. Maybe mobile compatability but would only be testing at first.

The reason I ask is I can get a box of that spec for £200 right now so if it would do the job, I may as well just jump on that offer

Tech Off - Recommendations for minimum specs

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:52:35 GMT

I am looking to build a little server to host all of our extranet services.

Server will be assuming the roles of:
File Server
Application Server
Domain Controller (Active Directory)
DNS Server
DHCP Server
Streaming Media Server

Will also require Exchange 2003 Standard with MS SQL 2005.

From recommendations I think the minimum spec will have to be:

P4 2.8GHz (533MHz FSB)
2GB DDR Ram
80GB HDD
100Mbit NIC, 10Mbit connectivity.

anyone care to agree/disagree?

Tech Off - Installing Exchange 2003 on Server 2003 with SP1

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:07:54 GMT

Fair enough. Is it possible for me to get rid of this SP2 and install SP1 without screwing it all up? The terminology and grouping in SP2's menus are confusing me!!

Tech Off - Installing Exchange 2003 on Server 2003 with SP1

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:56:12 GMT

Ok that's gonna check it out in a bit but I don't think I will be as the only users with relay permissions are my account & the other 3 staff accounts on the box.

Now, I'm trying to setup a 2nd domain but not sure how I would go about it as the domain controller assigns all users @xurial.net...so i presume exchange would do the same, but some of the users cannot have xurial.net e-mail accounts as they are for staff.

Instead I want to allow certain people to have xn3.net e-mails. I have configured DNS, it's not changed yet but ready to be, just need to know what needs to be done in Exchange.

I have added an SMTP Connector for the domain.

Cheers all

Tech Off - Installing Exchange 2003 on Server 2003 with SP1

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:42:58 GMT

Ah! I see now! I had only set it up to allow myslef & another exchange user to use that at all (including relaying perms).

No-one ever told me you needed SMTP to receive mail, I really thought it was only for sending :/ my bad.

Also 'silly accounts like test:test' i have exchange installed and before that didn't create any accounts. So now, the only way to set passwords is to have those big bad boy heavily secure passwords.

Also I rarely ever have accounts on a box that aren't used

MAIL FROM:iain.shortreed@gmail.com
250 2.1.0 iain.shortreed@gmail.com.........Sender OK

Guessing that means it's fine now?

Tech Off - Installing Exchange 2003 on Server 2003 with SP1

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:37:58 GMT

Ok I've never tried sending mail via telnet before but following that article and trying

MAIL FROM:iain.shortreed@xurial.net gives me the following error
454 5.7.3 Client does not have permission to submit mail to this server.

I don't know why this is as I it all appears to be setup to accept all mail!

Update: I tried this from a machine on the local network, from my XP box and from the server directly using telnet in cmd prompt. All gave the same result. Any ideas?

Tech Off - How does Microsoft prevent leaks?

Xenon101 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:14:35 GMT

I would be interested to see a real answer posted here at some point rather than just have a few people guess and never really come to a conclusion.

Anyone from M$ care to share?

Tech Off - Installing Exchange 2003 on Server 2003 with SP1

Xenon101 — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:43:09 GMT

Ok I've tried this twice today without success I'm clearly doing something, somewhere, wrong.

My network setup is rather confusing but basically it's like this:

Internet -> XP Pro box -> Server -> Network Switch -> Parents Laptops & other wired desktop boxes.

The firewall and NAT software is hosted on the XP Pro box and so currently it is all achieved by port forwarding. I haven't experienced any problems with this yet except DNS setting entries to the internal IP address by default but I changed that.

So on to the Exchange install. I followed the check list and all the tests etc finished good. Got it installed fine. Read up on the error message saying I have to apply SP1 or SP2 or it won't work so thought sure thing I'll install SP2.

Now I also setup an SMTP Connector for my primary domain xurial.net. The domain is setup in the local DNS server however is still hosted on other nameservers and I have set an A record for mail.xurial.net to my external IP and CNAMED the MX record to mail.xurial.net.

I try to send out mail from Exchange and it works fine, even to remote servers, so relaying is working. I try to receive mail however with no luck.

MX has been changed probably 2-4 hours however when I looked up mail.xurial.net I instantly had the new IP, same with everyone else I got to try it so hopefully it should have updated.

I setup the mailboxes by simply adding users to Active Directory. It may be worth noting I added the SMTP connector after I setup the AD users & mailboxes. I also setup Recipient Policies for SMTP or something, can't remember the exact term.

I'm still not receiving mail, port 25 incoming TCP is forwarded to the box (I missed this until recently! *oops*)

So anyone got any ideas why this aint working? Could it just be i'm being impatient and the MX change hasn't propogated or should I be worried I've screwed up?

Regards,
Iain

Tech Off - Windows has no drivers?

Xenon101 — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:37:23 GMT

I'm trying to install a Realtek 8029AS (yes old) NIC. Anyway I can't get a driver because it's "included in Windows XP" but in device manager its trying to add the card but has no drivers (at all) even in the network cards area.

Is there a way I can get the drivers off the install cd? Like fixmbr in the recovery console?

Coffeehouse - Why does Vista still have XPs wallpapers?

Xenon101 — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:37:37 GMT

It should have an animated desktop with clouds moving n stuff, that would look cool

Coffeehouse - itunes 5 crashes machines

Xenon101 — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:51:37 GMT

actually it seems quicktime isn't available standalone anymore :/ and im about to install iTunes 5.0.1 on 2000.

Update
Well it installed fine no powering off problems, it had to reboot and had to have a disk consistency check but apart from that nothing.