Being a system administrator is not easy, non-stop learning, 24/7 on-call, always the one being blamed when things go wrong, etc. etc. If you are new and are thinking of being a system administrator as your main career path, you need to be prepared for all the dirty works involved and the little secrets about working as a sys admin. […]
Out of blue, I got a letter from Microsoft Canada a few months back asking me to conduct this SAM program with their SAM team, a software license auditing to me indeed actually. Then two weeks later, a consultant contacted me by phone, followed by an email a couple of days later with two documents attached, one of which is […]
One remote user from work called me the other day saying her remote desktop client stopped working because of “there are no terminal server client access licenses available for this computerâ€. Well, that’s easy, I walked her through and successfully deleted the MSLicensing registry key on her Windows Vista computer, and happily told her you can try it again now. […]
I have a small web application written in ASP.net 2.0 (works on 3.5 as well) with Ajax enabled. What it does is to search information on a online database and downloads as PDF. I use <asp:UpdatePanel></asp:UpdatePanel> to wrap up the web form content, and use <asp:UpdateProgress> to show a modal popup type of progress icon during the actual download. It […]
This is so funny that I feel it’s not enough only doing a tweet, but worth a post as well. You definitely should check this one out if you have no idea what the heck they wrote on the birthday cake. The only good thing is, Outlook didn’t mess up the lady’s name. 🙂 See the full original story here […]
We heard the good reviews of this new version of IE, and we also saw bad words of it as well, just like all other new things. Unless you try it out yourself you can never tell who is right and who is wrong, or they could be all wrong. So I went ahead and downloaded the package and installed […]
One resolution I made for new year is to get more hands on experiences on varies Microsoft new releases, including OS, Servers, and Applications, since I haven’t been able to do so for last a couple of years. So once I saw the news saying the new Windows 7 was released the beta version to the public. I told myself […]
This blog is powered by subText which runs MS SQL database in the back, which also requires me to remote manage the database from time to time when something need to be tweaked behind the scene. But recently, I was having trouble logging in through Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. The login attempt was rejected due to the following reason. […]