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Fixing Offline Files in Windows Vista

Offline Files and Windows Explorer think your server is offline even when you are on the network? If so, then you might want to try this fix.

Fixing the local only internet access issue in Windows Vista

Recently I had issues with Windows Vista where it would get on a network, but would only have local access (i.e. “Access: Local only” in the Network and Sharing Center). After spending about an hour and a half I finally stumbled across the solution. Once again, the solution was hidden in a forum, and the Microsoft knowledge base article was fairly hard to follow. This article summarizes the steps for quickly fixing this.

Website Moved to WordPress!

My migration to WordPress is complete! This post briefly talks about the history of the site and announces the go-live of the WordPress version.

Play Button iTunes Patch does not work on OS X Lion

2011-07-26 FA: Please see the latest post.

As you might have heard, Apple released OS Lion yesterday. I am not part of mac developer program so yesterday was the first time that I got to play around with Lion. One thing I noticed right away was that the upgrade broke my iTunes Play Button patch. I will look into fixing that as soon as I get some time.

Among other broken things were the VMWare Fusion bootcamp instance which I haven’t had the time to recreate. Plus Apple removed the four finger swipe app switch gesture, which I used quite a bit 😐 Time to find another utility to bring that functionality back.

New article posted

I just posted a new article about fixing offline files in Windows Vista. Take a look!

Added a new article

Last night I added an article about fixing the “Access: Local only” issue in Windows Vista. Interestingly, this is another “feature” of Windows Vista that is causing trouble. Check it out in the articles section. Below are a few URLs that also talk about this problem.

http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2006/11/08/use-of-broadcast-b-flag-in-dhcp.aspx
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/dhcp_unicast_broadcast_flag.html
http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/vista-not-working-with-dhcp/

Giving Windows Vista an Honest Try

I have had Windows Vista on my tablet for a while and I finally decided that I would try it out on my desktop. But, I didn’t go at it blindly. Especially since when the Vista had open Beta I tried it out and noticed that it was considerably slower than my Windows XP installation. Considering this, I first installed it on my “playing around” 15GB partition to see how it performed. After trying it out for a few days I then decided that it was ready.

Windows Vista Desktop

So, I installed Vista around 8pm today on the main 40GB OS partition replacing the Windows XP installation. Visual Studio is one of the key programs that I use quite often so knowing that they have the 2008 beta out I had wget on the ArchLinux server working at downloading the img file. The initial Windows Vista install took under half an hour and after that it was ready for my installations and customizations. Here is what I have done so far.

  1. Applied all 29 or so critical and recommended Windows Updates (amazing, isn’t it? :))
  2. Installed Windows Mobile Device Center
  3. Connected the imate phone and the printer
  4. Installed tons of programs with only three restarts, which were mostly because of the programs that changed Windows at core. This list includes programs such as TortoiseSVN, AutoHotkey, Cisco VPN client, Daemon Tools, and cygwin.
  5. Turned off the autotuning feature.

Here is my impression so far.

  • My computer, even though it is fairly new, is running faster than I was expecting. In some cases it seems faster than Windows XP.
  • I just copied the 3.5GB Visual Studio 2005 (orcas) beta image from the server without any issues. So, hopefully I won’t have to worry about the slow file copy over the network.
  • The only major annoyance that I have had is with permissions on the data partition that I was previously using with the Windows XP installation. I don’t completely blame Microsoft for this because permissions generally are hard synchronize across installations. I just think that they could have done a better job on guiding the users through fixing the permissions.
  • Up until now there have only been two programs with compatibility issues.
    • InterSystems’ Cache’ Studio won’t work. This isn’t too big of an issue because I have to be on the work VPN to connect to the server, and now I will just have to use Cache’ Studio on my Windows XP machine at work.
    • I used AnyPassword to keep track of my passwords and this program isn’t compatible with Vista. I was surprised to find this out when I double clicked on the exe and Vista told me about it even before installing it.

In summary, so far everything is going awesome!

End of Another Day

Well, its around 11pm and I need to go to sleep soon. Today, I spent most of the day working with Analysis Services (AS) and Office Web Components fixing issues and catching up on a Business Intelligence project. This project had slowed down because I was stuck with a one-to-many relationship issue, which AS doesn’t deal very well with. Finally, my supervisor helped me solve this issue by deciding to change the requirements on the available dimensions. I will try to post an article about this because after looking the newsgroups it looks like this is a common problem.