For future-Howard (and team), how to fix the error from SVN “your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt”. for /R /D %i in (.svn) do if exist “%i” mkdir “%i/tmp” Open CMD, cd to the SVN directory then run the above command. It will place a new tmp directory inside each .svn directory. After…
.svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt
By Howard | Published September 29th, 2011Snow Leopard dual NVidia cards EFI Strings
By Howard | Published May 3rd, 2010Another post for future Howard, which may be useful to other people with a very specific set of circumstances. Namely: you’re running Snow Leopard on a Gigabyte P35-DS4 with a GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB in the first PCIE slot, and a GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB in the second. The PciRoot addresses you need for those…
Fix orphaned SQL Server users
By Howard | Published March 11th, 2010I always forget this in between using it, so for the benefit of future Howard, here’s how to fix orphaned users resulting from restoring a SQL database to a different machine.
Hyper-V: Increase network throughput to guest VMs
By Howard | Published February 3rd, 2010The Windows Server Performance team show how to increase network throughput to guest VMs on Hyper-V. Linking here for Future-Howard, who will certainly need it again. Windows Server Performance Team Blog : Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs.
Enable VT on Sony Vaio Z11
By Howard | Published July 30th, 2009Some time ago I posted at length about Sony’s decision to disable the Virtualization Technology features of the Intel chips in their high-end laptops, namely my Vaio Z11. Well thanks to the sterling efforts of one man and his EFI hacking skills, we now have a solution as this image demonstrates. The image on the…
Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP
By Howard | Published August 29th, 2008I’m rebuilding my new Sony Vaio Z with Windows XP, and as usual there are a load of tweaks I need to make to the OS before I feel “at home” again. Since the fingerprint reader software on the new build has an annoying habit of popping up info balloons on every boot – regardless…
Disable Windows Desktop Search Explorer Integration
By Howard | Published July 10th, 2008Another post from the “helping future Howard” category. I use Outlook 2007, which is great, but in order to be able to search your email with decent performance you must install Windows Desktop Search. Unfortunately when you do this it integrates with Explorer without asking permission to do so. This means that should you hit…
Clearing a Cisco Router's Dynamic NAT Table
By Howard | Published December 1st, 2007I keep needing to do this – so once again to help my future self: When you have a number of public IPs being translated through a router to an internal address space, a router’s dynamic translation can get full. I’ve got an 877W, and it seems that a combination of running BitTorrent and a…
VB.NET to C# and C# to VB.NET Translator
By Howard | Published July 31st, 2007This code translator is very handy. Give it some C# and it will spit out VB.NET, give it VB.NET and it’ll give you C#. Some of the code samples for manipulating Word documents are in VB.NET and I wanted to see them in C#. I could have tried to translate them myself but this saved…
VHD Size
By Howard | Published July 23rd, 2007Again, a techy post more for my future self’s benefit (so little space in my memory for anything useful, it being full of StarTrek trivia and the like). A trick to optimise a VHD (Microsoft’s Virtual Harddrive format – used in Virtual PC and Virtual Server). Turn of the system file checker. Not always advisable,…
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