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...

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’...

Today I was planning on upgrading my work development machine to win 7, I already installed it at home and I like it much better than Vista.

So I have Vista x64 at work, the Dutch version. I have no idea why I ever chose the Dutch version for this machine but I did it and there is no turning back now. I made a mistake and I will have to suffer for it.

Because I decided to install the English version, which makes for easier googling if you ever get an error, Win7 decided ...