http://blog.dreamdevil.com Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:05:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you have a home server, you may not have the chance to be connected to the Internet using a static IP address, instead your IP address is a lease from your Internet Service Provider and may change every day depending on the setup. So when you are in the outside ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/10/23/tomato-firmware_dynamic-dns-with-dyndns/ Hi, I recently updated my blog categories.  If you have (or had) hard time finding what you were searching for, please submit a comment to this post and I will rectify. I also made tags navigation available.  The list of tags is displayed just under the category of a post. Thanks. Pascal. http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/10/20/blog-update/ If some of you have been using PHP on Windows with SQL Server 2005, you may have hit some problems especially if you wanted to exploit new features of SQL Server 2005 like xml datatype, NVARCHAR(MAX), etc. The driver that had the better support for these were the PHP ODBC wrapper combined ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/10/16/php-driver-for-sql-server-2005/ First of all, for simplicity, let's assume we have a desktop at home that we want to connect to (control remotely) using a laptop while we are at a friend's home. We will use Remote Desktop to connect from the laptop to the home desktop. The home network is behind ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/09/06/remote-desktop-through-ssh-with-putty-and-tomato-firmware/ Since I may not always be on the same machine or with the same operating system when I want to run a virtual machine I bring with me, I store them on a Western Digital MyPassport USB Drive.  This drive is formatted using the NTFS file system.  I had a ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/08/28/ubuntu-run-virtual-machine-from-ntfs-usb-drive/ Hi, I've been using 3rd party firmware for my Linksys WRT54GL router for some time.  I've used DD-WRT, OpenWRT and finally Tomato.   I switched from DD-WRT (for a reason I can't remember) to go with OpenWRT.  I learned a lot on OpenWRT and really like their Kamikaze version.  The work they ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/08/13/tomato-firmware_remote-desktop-through-ssh_using-wake-on-lan_configuring-lan-hostnames/ General Hardware Specifications of Lenovo R61 Hardware Components Status under Linux Additional notes Intel Dual Core T7100 1.8Ghz Ok 15.4 in 1280x800 LCD Ok Default resolution properly set. Intel X3100 Ok No proprietary drivers available.I installed compiz manager and activated some nice desktop effects like desktop cube. Works perfectly. 2GB RAM Ok 120GB Hard Drive Ok Integrated Network Card Ok Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG Ok Beware to turn on ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/05/08/installing_ubuntu_8_04_on_lenovo_r61/ In this article, the analysts give recommendations Microsoft should follow to prevent collapsing of Windows. That's interesting to see that some of their recommendations reaches some of my wishes stated in this post. I've been using many Linux distributions (mainly Ubuntu) for over a year now and I'm getting more ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/04/12/gartner-analysts-say-windows-is-collapsing/ Another sign of Microsoft opening itself... Interesting to see that it will be easier for Java application to look more like native applications when running in Windows :) Click here to read the article http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/03/23/link-microsoft-forges-first-official-link-to-eclipse/ Hi, After playing a lot with multiple Linux distributions, I had hard time make my wireless card working. This was back to the release of Ubuntu 6.06. My wireless card was a Dell TrueMobile based on the Broadcom chip. Broadcom is known to not release chip specifications, so at ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/03/15/how-to-change-wireless-card-in-a-dell-inspiron-8600/ Under Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft made available "advanced lectures" in video or white paper format (and sometimes both): click here for Advanced lectures and white papers http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/03/05/link-technet-whitepapers-videos-for-sharepoint-2007/ ScottGu's blog contains a nice post (again) about the upcoming Silverlight 2 with a sample application plus tutorial to demonstrate the concepts behind the product. People are wondering if Silverlight is going to raise or die. In my opinion it will depend on the general acceptance by the developers and ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/02/22/link-first-look-silverlight-2/ I just updated the Sharepoint Database Exporter.  It now supports Sharepoint 2007. For more details, see the my original post here. http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/02/08/sharepoint-database-exporter-update/ Hi, I just updated my blog site from b2evolution to WordPress. So enjoy the new skin! If you find any broken link (or if you have a broken bookmark), do not hesitate to report it by adding a comment to this post. Known issues: The old RSS feeds are not working on the ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/01/29/blog-site-update/ Microsoft as made the .NET framework source code available. The interesting part is that you can configure Visual Studio 2008 to support stepping into the .NET Framework's code automatically while debugging. Instructions on how to setup Visual Studio 2008 are available from Shawn Burk's blog here: Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/01/17/dotnet_framework_source_code_available/ Here is a series of posts from ScottGu's blog about the new ASP.NET MVC Framework.  That seems pretty interesting... Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 - URL Routing Part 3 - Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views Part 4 - Handling Form Edit and Post Scenarios http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/01/09/aspnet_mvc_framework_links/ Here is a link to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 training kit that contains a bunch of information, examples and labs (it's about 120MB download).  Good to discover and try the new features of VS and the new framework. Note: Check minimum system requirements first (only for labs). Link: Visual Studio 2008 and ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/01/08/vs2008_dotnet_framework_3_5_trainingkit/ Migrating subversion from a Windows installation to a Linux installation is not just copying the repository structure and files. But it is still quite easy. Here are the steps: Extract the repository data from Windows repository and store it into an OS independant format using the dump command: svnadmin dump [repo location] ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/01/07/migrate_svn_repos_from_windows_to_linux/ Here is an interesting serie of blog posts from Tobias to start learning Microsoft PowerShell: Day 1: Getting Organized Day 2: Writing Scripts and Translating VBScript Day 3: Discovering objects (COM, WMI & ADSI) Day 4: Ins and Outs of the Windows Registry Day 5: Using WMI Day 6: ADSI Connecting to Domains/Computers and Binding to ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/01/07/mastering_powershell_in_your_lunch_break/ General Hardware Specifications of Inspiron 8600 Hardware Components Status under Linux Additional notes Pentium M processor 1.6Ghz Ok 15.4 WXGA+ (1680x1050) TFT Display Ok Default resolution properly set: 1680x1050 ATI Radeon 9600 (Mobile) AGP video card Ok Desktop effects were actived by default. It can be changed in System/Preferences/Appearance on tab "Visual Effects". There are 3 choices: None Normal (the default that was ... http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2007/10/22/install_ubuntu_7_10_dell_inspiron_8600/