On a newly-rebuild Windows 2003 server, I set out to install TFS 2008. After installing SQL 2005, and SQL Reporting Services, and SQL Analysis Services, and SQL 2005 Service Pack 3, I fired up the TFS installer, only to ultimately get the dreaded “Send Report/Don’t Send Report” dialog box.
Nice! Looking at the install log was [...]
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Defragmenting hard drives is something that is often unnecessary, but when it is necessary, most people run the built-in Windows “Disk Defragmenter” utility. It’s serviceable, but there is a better option: JkDefrag.
There’s a few things that make JkDefrag an improvement over what Windows offers:
It runs on anything that mounts like a disk drive — including [...]
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There’s one great feature in SQL: the “Generate Scripts” command. Unfortunately, it has one limitation: the default filenames of scripts look something like this:
dbo.fnc_PlayerValue.UserDefinedFunction.sql
dbo.UserSelect.StoredProcedure.sql
I’d much prefer the filenames to match the object name, without the owner (’dbo’) or object type. In other words, I’d prefer the above two files to look like this:
UserDefinedFunction\fnc_PlayerValue.sql
StoredProcedure\UserSelect.sql
How do we [...]
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I’ve been running a rather expensive Windows Vista computer lately, thanks to Boot Camp. However, two problems continue to plague me:
The latest Boot Camp update from Apple will not install successfully.
Sound is distorted when playing games, typically those using multiple sound channels (i.e. pretty much all games).
Fortunately, I finally found the fix for #2. It [...]
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A friend of mine (who is a reseller for Diamond Multimedia) forwarded me an email last night which shed some interesting insight into video card driver stability with Windows Vista:
ATI Provides Proven Driver Stability
Microsoft is currently involved in a class action lawsuit regarding problems with its “Vista Capable” marketing. As part of this [...]
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