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 you run the command, an svn cleanup should succeed.

PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0) for the GTS in slot one.
PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0) for the GTX in slot two (PEG2).

You’ll need this for when you generate the EFI hex string in EFI Studio.

Remember also to change the BIOS to boot from PEG2.

Maybe that’ll save someone else the pain of pulling the cards and running gfxutil -f display on each one!

First, list the orphan users to make sure this is the problem:

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Report'

Usually I already have the login and password set up on the server, this being the case you can fix the orphan by doing:

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'user'

If not, and you want/need to create the login and password, you’ll need to do this instead:

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'user', 'login', 'password'

Windows Server Performance Team Blog : Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs.

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 left shows the result of the VMWare Virtualization Technology test CD confirming that VT is now enabled on my Vaio Z11.

I’ve mirrored his code and instructions here in case his site disappears, read more after the jump…

Download this EFI application and put it on a FAT32 formatted USB stick in the \EFI\BOOT directory.

Boot from the USB stick. When this USB stick is plugged in to your laptop it will boot from it regardless of your settings to deny booting from external devices.

If all goes well you will see the following message:

> Welcome to GRUB!
>
> Entering rescue mode...
> error: file not found
> grub rescue>

At this prompt, type:

setup_var

You’ll be informed of the risks but most importantly you should see confirmation that the tool has found the correct setup variable. You want to see the message say “the GUID should match the expected GUID”. If it does not don’t continue – visit the site of the author and let him know.

Since this definitely works on a Vaio Z11, you should have got this far and can now look at the current setting of the VT offset which is at 0x1af. Type:

setup_var 0x1af

Verify that the variable is set to 0×00. If it is not, do not continue.

Assuming that the variable is as expected, we’ll change the setting, locking VT for your processor to ON:

setup_var 0x1af 0x1

You can verify that this change has been accepted by typing:

setup_var 0x1af

And confirming that the output is now 0×01.

That’s it! Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and remove the USB stick. You can now check that VT is enabled using whichever tool you prefer. I confirmed mine from a VMWare boot CD and also within Windows using Steve Gibson’s SecurAble tool.

Much better.

And sorry Vista, I tried, I really did.  I liked how your hot-swap driver support meant I could switch between stamina and speed modes without a reboot, but I hated your poor network performance against my NAS (even with SP1).  Maybe I’ll try again on the next new laptop.  Oh, and Sony?  Thank you for my XP downgrade CD and drivers.  Lovely.

So, to disable this you must open regedit and find:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS

and set the ShowStartSearchBand value to 0.  That’ll give you back the default behaviour.

I find it quite irritating that the interface chooses to admonish me that I’m not indexing the content instead of just presenting me with the search functionality that is able to search the content for me.

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 CounterStrike: Source server can quickly cripple the router (even with a memory upgrade!). When it gets too full you end up getting timeouts on other connections, usually this is most obvious by my browser failing to return pages.

To clear the dynamic translation table before timeout occurs log in to the router via ssh (or telnet) and in enable mode, type:

clear ip nat translation *

That seems to do the trick on my network anyway.

sfc /cachesize=0
sfc /purgecache

Then perform the standard compaction routine in Virtual PC/Virtual Server. For even more benefit, see also the Invirtus Optimizer which is outstanding, taking a 4.2GB VHD down to 1.4 by removing the cruft it didn’t need.