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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 | Author: Jesper

If youre also experiencing issues with accessing the SD card under varying circumstances, youre not alone!

It is caused by either a flaw in the SD card controller, or in the SD card itself – and HTC Support is making it sound like it is a problem with the stock Sandisk 4GB card itself.

They officially offered to replace the card with a new one, provided that I send in my card AND device to the UK Service Center. Im not too fond of that – so I will try to have them replace the card alone. Although I’ll most likely go buy a larger one anyway :-)

I’ve seen errors with most applications trying to save data to the SD card once in a while – and it all goes away after a reboot. A bit strange indeed.

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Monday, March 08th, 2010 | Author: Jesper

Yup, got this server upgraded…now its running on what you might call a “cloud” based setup:

288 GB RAM
48 TB Equalogic SAN, 10 Gbit connection
58 Ghz CPU power (i know its not…real!)
1 gbit redundant internet connection

This equals to a Server 2008 R2 (with exchange 2010) bootup time of about 15 seconds ;) and a disk transfer rate (measured with hdtach) of about 1.2 GB/sec!

Although I only have a fraction of this shizzle assigned to the actual VM, its still one heck of a setup! :D

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Monday, February 02nd, 2009 | Author: Jesper

First post from Windows 7..woo. No really, its smooth, quick, stable and contains a pretty cool GUI as well! I really cant complain about anything.

  • UAC has been designed – not nearly as many nag prompts as in Vista
  • Libraries… cool feature
  • More Aero-features…useful!
  • Redesigned Start-bar (or whatever you’d like to call it)
  • Compability-troubleshooter (it actually works!)
  • Redesigned network configuration (and troubleshooter)
  • Much faster than a top tuned XP & Vista
  • Stable as a rock – no breakdowns in the last 10 days..and I’ve been trying out LOTS of apps/hardware!
  • No driver hassle – and Vista drivers work out of the box. Didnt have to install any drivers at all!

The only drawback so far is that on my domain-joined installation I’ve been unable to install Nokia PC Suite…(“Wrong OS”).

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Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Author: Jesper

…or, to be a little more modest – I’ve decided to broaden my business services to everybody who might need assistance.

Take a look at the page “Business services” to see what I can offer.

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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 | Author: Jesper

Take a good look at this stack trace found in the event log of an Exhange 2007 server:

Service MSExchangeMailSubmission.  Unable to process anything for over 30 minutes.  Diagnostic info: Governor: Governor for DatabaseManagerEvent, Last run time: 17-10-2007 14:12:10, Next retry interval: 00:05:00.  Current exception: Microsoft.Exchange.Assistants.TransientServerException
at Microsoft.Exchange.Assistants.Util.CatchMeIfYouCan(CatchMe function)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Assistants.Base.CatchMeIfYouCan(CatchMe function)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Assistants.EventDispatcherPrivate.DangerousProcessItem(EmergencyKit kit, InterestingEvent interestingEvent)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Three things strike me:

  1. CatchMeIfYouCan() ?
  2. EmergencyKit object?
  3. InterestingEvent object?
    A bit weird if you ask me.. by the way, its presented as an event log entry with an ID of 9039, and a source of “MSExchange Assistants”. No apparent reason found. I am fiddling with the certificates installed though, perhaps that might have caused this weirdo to surface…
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Monday, June 11th, 2007 | Author: Jesper

If you have the following items:

  1. Money enough to buy the Picotech TH-03 digital thermometer
  2. The need to monitor temperatures at one to four different places
  3. a linux machine with a serial port (and Nagios installed)

Then take a look at http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/th03/ where you can find information on how to use all these things alltogether

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Wednesday, May 02nd, 2007 | Author: Jesper

I feel like pasting 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 here.

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Sunday, April 29th, 2007 | Author: Jesper

I finally succeeded in getting a course in the most awesome email and ressource scheduling system to this date. Exchange 2007 kicks ass when configured properly.. which is why I took this course. Calendar sharing, room booking, task management..not to forget: Unified Messaging, which in short is a role for the Exchange server that enables you to use it as an VoIP central with voice enabled mailbox access. It also understands voice commands which makes it pretty damn cool.

SP1 for the server which is due in late May/early June greatly enhances the OWA with S/MIME support, Office document viewing, and several other features that did not make it to the RTM version of Exchange 2007.

Go get it! and while youre at it, check out the Action Pack subscription (http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/partner/partnerskab/maps/default.mspx – In Danish), its a great way to get your licensing needs covered.

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Sunday, April 29th, 2007 | Author: Jesper

Well, if you getting low speeds when using a Nokia (6280/6234/6288) as modem for laptop via bluetooth, you should try this. Go to device manager, find the bluetooth modem – doubleclik, go to Advanced properties, and remove the init string (+CGDCONT=,,”internet” in my case). Voila, this will enable your laptop/phone to use the UMTS connection instead of regular GPRS (2G) internet. I’ve reached about 250 kbit steady, which i find pretty neat. This was tested via the Danish MVNO Telmore (who’re using TDC Mobils network). This was tested on Windows Vista, but Im pretty confident that this trick will also work on any other device who is experiencing this problem.

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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 | Author: Jesper

Well, it seems as if its not exactly an easy operation importing root certs to your windows mobile device. Some devices are locked from the manufacturer, having implemented some weird security policies that does not allow the end user to use the certificate import utility. Way to go! Also getting a certificate onto the device in a format that it understands can be a pain in the ..
So, apparently the easy way to avoid messing around with your certificates on your mobile device (and on your..Exchange 2007 server for instance), is to simply buy the damn thing.

InstantSSL.com sells the real deal for a mere ~$50 a year (when buying a cert valid for 3 years) – apparently they are recognized on devices starting from Windows Mobile 2003 (and 2003 SE), and upwards. But be aware: Windows Mobile does not support wildcard certificates, so you need to buy multiple certs for your Exchange 2007 installation – eg. autodiscover.domain.com and mail.domain.com.