I kinda like my VMWare Workstation 6.5 (soon to be 7.0). I always have at least 3 VM's running. But I seemed to have some intermittent network problems. I use Bridged networking because that's what I need. Most of my VM's have a static ip so no problems there.

The problem usually happens after I force a close on a VM because sometimes they crash without asking me. And then a weird thing happens. The machine looses its outgoing connection. I can start the machine (albeit a bit slower than usual) and I can ping the machine. I can see the network connection is alive and well and I can p...

Yesterday 2 QNap TS-419P Turbo NAS arrived at work for me to play with. The question of course is how did I choose a solution that will work for me? To be honest pure luck. To be honest you have too much choice and choosing the right thing isn't going to happen unless you trust to pure luck or try some things out and that takes time. So I trust to luck. And no it does not help to read reviews or the manufacturer's website since most sites will not tell you the truth anyway. Neither will I BTW I just tell you what I think is i...

One way I stay protected from bad sites is that I use a modified host file. In Vista and Windows 7 you cannot just open the file in notepad and save it anymore, you will get an error. Someone had this happen at work on Windows Server 2008 last week and just today someone asked about it in our forums here: Can't modify the host file on Windows 7

I decided to create a short little blog post explaining how you can modify this file.

If you open the host file in the following location C:\Windows\System32\d...

So yesterday we were setting up a trust between my domain and another domain. Both were Windows Server 2003.

In prinicipal this is a very easy task but sometimes you get the most interesting error messages.

Like this one.

The specified user already exists

After googling for a while we ended up with no real answer. A lot of maybes and pointers to search in a certain direction.

In the end we found the problem there was a computer on the other domain that had the same NetBIOS name than my domain. Removing that computer (user) f...

Microsoft just announced that Microsoft Security Essentials will be available for download tomorrow. From the press release

Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Corp.’s new no-cost, core anti-malware service that helps protect consumers against viruses, spyware and other malicious software, will be available tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept. 29. Microsoft Security Essentials, independently certified by West Coast Labs, is backed by the company’s global security response team and is built on the same award-winning core security technology found in the company’...