Tired of the startup page, that never contains anything useful anyway and just takes time to load? Go to Tools => Options => Environment => Startup and disable that page for good.
If you rename a host on which MSSQL is running, the MSSQL server will not be renamed internally, causing the error message “Invalid Urn filter on server level” to pop up. What this means, in this case, is that the connected SQL server doesn’t match the name the client has for it. You can check […]
I recently had some issues with a flaky VPN service. I wanted to make a little script I could run on a different machine that would restart the VPN connection, should it break. This particular VPN connection included a DNS service for the remote .local-domain, which I decided to use for testing, but you could […]
Sometimes, when I’m just screwing around with some software, Windows security just gets in my way. Here are the things I wanted gone this time, and where to find them: Strong password enforcement and password aging: Administrative tools => Local Security Policy (secpol.msc) => Account Policies => Password Policy Ctrl+alt+del to login: Administrative tools => […]
I recently faced reinstalling a Windows 8 machine, without knowing the key used for deployment on it was an upgrade key. Not wanting to wipe the drive (again), dig up a Windows 7 key, then installing Windows 8 again, I googled and found this advice at Lifehacker, which worked brilliantly: If you do a clean […]
This error seems to pop up every now and again when I configure a new IIS server, even if I do remember to check the ASP option during the initial role selection. Here’s how to resolve it (run as admin) on a 64-bit system: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i ..and on a 32-bit system: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.21006\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
In short, for the database named “internal”: SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on,snapshot_isolation_state FROM sys.databases WHERE name=’internal’ ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET allow_snapshot_isolation ON ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET read_committed_snapshot ON ALTER DATABASE [internal] SET MULTI_USER SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on,snapshot_isolation_state FROM sys.databases WHERE name=’internal’
This works on a Norwegian keyboard, but may apply to others. So, your terminal says something like: Connected to foo Escape character is ^] So, ] is easily typed using “Alt Gr + 9” on my keyboard, but “Ctrl + Alt Gr + 9” does not produce an escape character. However, “Ctrl + 5” does, […]
Blatantly stolen from Jussi Palo’s post here, and archived here. All credit to the original author. Challenge Time to go all in with Windows 8 and migrate development environments to Hyper-V. When you’re migrating from VMware to Hyper-V, and you happen to install Hyper-V before uninstalling VMware Workstation or Player, you will get warning that […]
When configured to send all mail through a smarthost, exim4 on Debian will not respect your /etc/aliases file, nor will it care about your users’ ~/.forward files. This is due to the numbering, and consequently the sorting, of the files in /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/. If you look at 200_exim4-config_primary, you’ll see it handles smarthost routing in smarthost […]