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Humanoid i-Sobot Toy
For $300, you can get a humanoid toy robot that can recognize spoken words and be controlled remotely. It has 17 motors that allows it to walk, somersault, and do karate chops. The Guinness World Records recognizes it as smallest humanoid robot in commercial production; i-Sobot went on sale in Japan, in white, and the…
PsTools communication errors
My friend Anthony was getting “access denied” and “logon failure” errors when trying to to run psexec (from one of the PsTools suite) from an XP machine on a domain to an XP machine in a workgroup. It was something similar to: PsInfo 1.34 – local and remote system information viewerCopyright (C) 2001-2002 Mark RussinovichSysinternals – www.sysinternals.com…
Visual Studio Team System 2008 now available
For MSDN subscribers, you can now download VS Team System 2008 RTM on the MSDN site (x86 and x64 WoW – DVD). Have fun!
Vista’s Windows Update not working in a domain
If you are using Windows Vista in a domain, you may find that Windows Update doesn’t work (it will say something like “No updates available”). This is because when a computer is added into a domain, a registry key/policy is automatically added to connect to a WSUS server for updates. So to resolve the issue,…
Vista error: "Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed"
My Vista lab box presented this error when I tried to login into my company’s domain after several months of not doing so: Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed I suspected my [Vista] installation was using cached domain information to login, which was the case and why it was being denied access. …
SQL Server Best Practices
For archival purposes, here’s the location of a ton of white papers for best practices or SQL Server on the TechNet site. Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method,…