4
01
2009
New wordpress blog has been created named “Networknet Webdesigner” which has the focus for CSS, PHP, MySQL, PhotoShop, etc. Recently I updated my Windows Live Writer and I tried to register my new blog in Windows Live Writer. Just after entering all required parameters I got the following warning:
- Error Connecting to Blog
Blog Server Error – Server Error 405 Occurred
XML-RPC services are disabled on this blog. An admin user can enable them at http. You must correct this error before proceeding.
Wordpress developers decided to disable “Remote Publishing” from version 2.6 or higher. Networknet is running since 2.5 and I never hit this problem before.
To enable the “Remote Publishing” feature login to “wp-admin” admin interface / Settings / Writing / and check “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.”. See screenshot:
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Categories : Microsoft, Windows Live Writer
30
12
2008
Windows Live Essentials with one download, lots of great stuff in one installation. Thanks Microsoft.
The installation includes the following programs:
Messenger beta
Mail beta
Writer beta
Photo Gallery beta
Movie Maker beta
Family Safety beta
Toolbar beta
Wow what an update 
I like the new integration with Live Spaces and Photo Gallery with 25GB free diskspace. To download Windows Live Essentials please go to here.
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Categories : Microsoft
30
12
2008
Couple days ago I imported one of my VMs into ESX server. This VM was setup with VMWare Workstation and worked fine before. After VMWare Converter was finished I boot the machine. The boot process stopped with the message below:
- NTLDR is missing Press Crtl+Alt+Del to restart
Oeps my boot record was missing or something went wrong during the import. Therefore I mounted the Windows Server 2008 DVD and boot from it.
Click “Repair your computer”
Make sure “System Recovery Options” finds a Operating System and click Next.
Systems recovery tool is started and click “Command Prompt”
Since Windows 2008 or even with Windows Vista (not sure 
) the Windows Setup includes some new tools. We are going use the bootrec.exe.
Execute the following commands:
- bootrec.exe /FixMbr
- bootrec.exe /FixBoot
- bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd
Close “Command Prompt” and click Restart
Windows Server 2008 boot now and I was able to login. Changed the network settings and reboot with success.
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Categories : Windows Server 2008
20
12
2008
During the installation of a screenprint tool named SnagIT the setup asked me to provide the unidrv.dll and unidrvui.dll files. I tried two directories c:\windows\inf and c:\windows\system32\drivers but in both the files were not available.
The message above was shown. My installation of the application succeed but after the reboot it started asking for the application printer which was not installed because of the missing files. I uninstall the application and started again but now with some hints where to find the files.
If you encounter that these files are missing please follow my guides below:
Start “Command Prompt” and type dir unidrv*.dll /s to search for these files. I was lucky and I found mine hidden somewhere(C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32×86) on the harddisk .
If you can’t find the files than open the following file if available C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386\sp2.cab and extract the two dll’s.
This fixed my problem and without downloading un-trusted DLL’s from the Internet. You can search for these files but be sure what you are downloading from the web.
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Categories : Microsoft, Windows XP
18
12
2008
Hyper-V Manager error when trying to start my 4th virtual machine:
- An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine. Unable to allocate MB of RAM. Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. etc…
Before I reinstall my test Dell PowerEdge 2900 Quad core server I wanted to share this with you. Hyper-V does not support memory overcommitment and I don’t like that. The virtual host has 8GB or RAM and I want to run more VMs than just 6 of those; the OS uses almost 1GB and less than 7GB is available for VMs.
Some weeks ago I read about memory overcommitment feature which is available for VMWare’s ESX/ESXi servers.
What is Memory Overcommitment?
Memory overcommitment is not a feature in itself, but a collection of technologies out of which “transparent page sharing” is the most interesting in my opinion. The usefulness of transparent page sharing will spring to mind immediately if you consider VDI environments. There, host machines typically run large numbers of identical client operating systems with the same applications installed on them. Since all the clients/guests run the same application set, most of the code pages they need to keep in memory are identical. Each guest keeps separate copies of all system and application EXEs and DLLs in memory - what a waste!
Now consider the following: in memory program code is organized in units of pages. If you had a component that identified all those identical pages in each guest’s virtual memory and map them to one set of pages in the host’s physical memory, you could reduce the code memory footprint of n virtual machines to that of one single virtual machine. And that is in a nutshell what VMware’s “transparent page sharing” does.
I only want to run different VMs of Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 and install additional components to test them with each other. With Hyper-V server I can only commit the physical memory available and additional VMs.
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Categories : ESX, Hyper-V
18
12
2008
Wow! On 12th of June 2007Networknet.nl Blog become online . In the first half year I was learning WordPress system and posted some posts. After getting familiar with the blogging system I started to blog on various topics and areas I was working on. I received feedback from the readers hitting my website (thanks to google ) and enjoyed publishing my posts.
Where do we stand now:
- 20-03-2008 : 10000 visitors
- 31-07-2008: 50000 visitors
- 18-12-2008: 100000 visitors
- 2009: 250000 ??? just kidding
I would like to thank you all for visiting my blog. Any suggestions, ideas or comments are welcome. I am working to update the WordPress system, content and layout.
Stay tuned at Networknet.nl
Ivan Versluis
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Categories : Personal, Uncategorized
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