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 Monday, January 02, 2006

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In the <dir>\siteconfig directory update the following 2 config files.

Setup basic information in site.config - such as

  <Title>Mark Iwaszko's Blog!</Title>
  <Subtitle>An IT Liverymans ramblings</Subtitle>
  <Theme>BlogXP</Theme>
  <Description />
  <Contact>mark@iwaszko.com</Contact>
  <Root>http://blogs.iwaszko.com/mark/</Root>
  <Copyright>Mark Iwaszko</Copyright>

Setup security information in siteSecurity.config

    <User>
      <Name>user</Name>
      <Password>password</Password>
      <Role>admin</Role>
      <Ask>true</Ask>
    </User>

Install instructions readme.rtf (37.21 KB)

1/2/2006 11:53:47 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Technical  |  Trackback
 Saturday, December 31, 2005
 Tuesday, December 20, 2005

A recent project meant that there were errors in the AD settings for users when an account is disabled.

Here are some resources for the issue and links to code the solution

How to find Exchange recipients http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251390

THE ADSI RESOURCE KIT IS PROVIDED

http://dev.coadmin.dk/Resources/ADSI%20SDK%205%20HTML/rtk.htm#adssecurity

12/20/2005 12:22:16 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Technical  |  Trackback
 Friday, December 09, 2005

Physicists have managed to "entangle" the physical state of a group of atoms with that of another group of atoms across the room. This research represents an important advance relevant to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to quantum information science, including the possibility of scalable quantum networks (i.e., a quantum Internet) in the future.

Full article

12/9/2005 9:03:39 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Reference  |  Trackback
 Thursday, December 08, 2005

DAEMON Tools is a virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator. It is able to emulate nearly all known copy protections on the market today.

Both 32bit and x64 versions have beeb released. Download here

12/8/2005 10:26:20 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Technical  |  Trackback
What is Windows Live? http://www.live.com/

Windows Live is based on one simple idea: that your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. So all the things you care about online - your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, searching the Net - all come together in one place. Windows Live is a brand new Internet experience designed to put you in control. And this is just the beginning-you'll see many more new products in the coming months.

12/8/2005 8:49:19 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Technical  |  Trackback
 Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Like most boys who dont grow up Ive been interested in model trains for many years. I have an old hornby train set in the loft and as my sons grow up I hope that it will get some use.  However I recently discovered the Live Steam collection from Hornby. 

I had assumed that these were just electric trains which puffed out an oily smoke, but NO !  They are the real thing.  Fill up the boiler with water, let it heat up and not only does steam come from the whistle but the train is actually driven by the Steam ! - Brilliant. 

The locomotive is powered by a mini immersion heater, located in the tender, and is heated by a safe low voltage current passed along the track by a remote regulator, located on the Live Steam control box. This voltage boils the water which in turn creates steam, causing the pistons to move and the wheels to turn. Speed is dictated by another regulator on the control box, and with a few quick nudges, the locomotive can be sped up or slowed down, and even reversed.

After a small amount of practice, the operator can achieve in excess of 20 minutes running from one filling of water. The locomotive also produced realistic steam sounds from pumping pistons to the whistle, coupled with the unmistakable and memorable smells of steam and hot engine oil.

The Live Steam locomotive requires a dedicated route to run on, because of the current to heat the water, and is not compatible with DCC control. The special Live Steam control and transformer boxes are included in the box set.

This is a real steam locomotive, operated purely by steam - what could be better than to own your own Live Steam models, and reminisce over those memories of the steam, the smell and the sounds?

12/7/2005 6:03:47 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Personal  |  Trackback

When MSRS exports to Excel it creates a new worksheet for each page, which is great, however it would be even better if you could control the naming of each of those pages.  Apparently you cant do this yet.

Info at microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs  

12/7/2005 1:45:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Technical  |  Trackback
 Monday, December 05, 2005

My father in law mentioned that he had a shortend Lee Enfield during his national service in the far east, so I thought I'd try to find out a bit more about it.

I think it was a "Lee Enfield SMLE No 5"

Links

http://www.leeenfieldrifleassociation.org.uk/
http://www.lee-enfield-spares.co.uk/

12/5/2005 9:29:47 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Personal  |  Trackback
 Friday, December 02, 2005
Reflex is a flight sim software that has awesome photo realistic graphics.  You need a high spec machine and graphics card to run it.

It comes with a dongle to connect to your remote control. It lets you select the plane or Helicopter you want to fly from a broad selection of fixed wing aircraft… propeller, jets and gliders. In addition, you can scan in photos of a model plane you’d like to fly, feed in its parameters, and using the included Reflex RMK Model Editor construct a custom model. (Info from here)

http://www.reflex-sim.de/

Details at http://www.helihobby.com/html/reflex_sim.html

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12/2/2005 1:26:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [1]   Personal  |  Trackback

I recently bought myself an electric Hirobo indoor helicopter.  Ive long loved helicopers and this is the newest and most stable indoor helicopter around.  Its great fun to try and master, however it requires extreem concentration whilst learning.  - Spec at http://model.hirobo.co.jp/products/0301-904/

 

Preflight Checks
Trouble Shooting

Hirobo XRB spares http://www.revolutionmodels.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Hirobo_XRB_spares.html

12/2/2005 1:22:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]   Personal  |  Trackback
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