I was at a supermarket counter last night when the counter attendant asked us if we were from South America. I replied by saying we were from Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines. The counter attendant suddenly replied, “Imelda Marcos! And her famous shoes!” While there was simply nothing wrong with what she said nor how […]
I was working on a server when I noticed an error in the Windows Event Log in this format Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 User: Computer: SERVER1 Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {ABF05265-635E-44B0-A28F-AEA45247ACA0} to the […]
It took me a few weeks to get back to blogging due to a lot of changes happening. But then, again, great ideas are always worth spreading.A few weeks ago, I was privileged to assist Microsoft Singapore in providing software assistance to non-profit organizations. Normally, it only required reading thru some documentation and providing some […]
I made a mistake of not having a backup of my base virtual image for testing and back in the old days, I used the NewSID tool from Sysinternals. Unfortunately, I am not back in the good old days as the tool is only supported to run on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 whereas […]
This was from my old blog entry from way back November 2006 and remembered how easy it was to fool SQL Server when trying to replace disks. I was configuring a clustered SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 and testing the disk resources for failover. I tried failing over one of the disks […]