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This is one I have been fighting with for a while.   In my case, we have a Dell XPS1530 Laptop in the office that when under heavy load is causing BSOD’s on the Intel Driver.   I had found lots of threads on forums, but none pointing to the link with heavy load.    Until Now….. http://communities.intel.com/thread/6030?tstart=0 If you are having this… Read more →

OK, its time…..     that time where once every 6 months or so I look at the performance of Yoda, the server behind msmvps.com I am hoping that somehow, some way, I can put on a bandaid while we work on much bigger changes for everyones blog in the long term. Read more →

I was trying to explain just HOW important this patch was to someone today….   and finally I found a great explaination from Mark Minasi in his newsletter today.    Suffice to say, deploy the patch NOW! http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws1001b.htm From that newsletter: “Install Today’s IE Patch.  Really. Do it.  Now. Here’s a very, very important item.  The short version is that today, 22… Read more →

Check out Niniane’s blog on this….   very cool! “When I worked for Microsoft in the early 2000’s, one of the main features I developed was a cloud rendering system for Flight Simulator. I published a couple articles about it afterwards. In 2007, I got an email from someone working on special effects for a movie. We have a friend in… Read more →

Over the past few weeks Graham and I have been working with Terry on the following announcement…. Long live Flight Simulator! http://www.eiresimforum.info/index.php?topic=84.0 “Eiresim proudly announce the forthcoming release of Shannon Airport, ‘Gateway to the West’. Shannon Airport (EINN) is a significant international airport with both modern and historical importance to transatlantic flight and air traffic control. It serves over three… Read more →

“Today, Lockheed Martin announced it has licensed Microsoft’s ESP platform to build new simulation solutions.  This is part of what I’ve been doing the last 9 months since the ACES studio shut down, working with the team that handled the licensing deal.” Full post here: http://beatlesblog.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!B48B0194C5456F5!323.entry My comment: One can only hope this is good news for the underlying architechture… Read more →

Hey all, It has been a while since I posted anything about Flight Simulator.   Various reasons for that including my complete lack of interest in the product since Microsoft sacked (almost) everyone, and the fact my time has been massively limited by various business projects. Of course, there are loads of blogs now about Flight Simulator and I am not… Read more →

As per the title, if you are seeing this error (in the logs) when you try to change a users mailbox quota via the SBS2008 Console then I have a fix for you…. You may also see this in the console.log file: An exception of type ‘Type: Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Messaging.Management.MessagingTaskException, MessagingManagement, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ has occurred.Timestamp: 12/02/2009 10:40:45Message: Active Directory operation failed… Read more →

Over this weekend I have had to quickly build a Virtual SBS2008 server for one of my clients.   I came across an interesting issue which took me a while to figure out, so I am plonking it up here on the blog so that others that may come across the problem will find it quicker. A quick description of the… Read more →

First, a big shout out to Eddy from Amulet Devices (check out those cool remotes) who nicely sent me a mail pointing out that Windows 7 and Xbox 360 now “play nice” with various different formats and that Transcoding should not be needed. This made me look again. Sure enough, there is an option, which was on by default in… Read more →