Monthly Archive: November 2009

Nov 24 2009

Why Windows Activation Needs to go

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Virtualization is the reason why.  I booted a image created inside Windows Virtual PC using Sun’s Virtual Box and this is what you get when you boot up. Will Microsoft allow multiply activations of an OS?  It’s just silly and doesn’t help with the promise of disaster recovery with the activation non-sense.

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Nov 23 2009

Exchange ActiveSync Error

A customers Windows Mobile Phone stopped syncing e-mails, etc, looking at the server we could see this error within the logs. Event Type:      Error Event Source:    Server ActiveSync Event Category: None Event ID:           3005 Description: Unexpected Exchange mailbox Server error: Server: [servername.domain.local] User: [user’s e-mail address] HTTP status code: [400]. Verify that the Exchange mailbox …

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Nov 04 2009

iPhone Screen shoot

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Have you every seen an screen shot from an iPhone and thought how is that done?   It’s really easy, press the home button and the power button at the same time and a screen shoot is taken and the image is added to the camera roll.

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