Wasted Opportunity (I)

A year ago there was no pressure

So I did not talk with you and measure

Six months hence from you a post

still didn’t know what mattered most

One month left, still clueless she

Left unsaid how you intrigued me

Now tonight our last in meat-space

d’Oh! My double is in my place!

Alone

Seated but 5 meters from me,
yet so distant and inscrutable.
Will I be satisfied to let you be?
Or test if you’re approachable?

An Older man with pudgy bod
demeaner downcast and blue
Would you, young lass, think it odd,
that I dare approach you?

The meeting over, we pack our things
fold tables away and say good bye
speak now! my inner desire rings
dare not! for should the test fail I will surely die

And so we part our separate ways
my heart as hard as stone
for though sweet it were these last few days
I can only feel…. alone

Costco

At Costco Wholesale
We consume mass quantities
Of PRC goods.

Observer Effect

I see what you do

But when you know that I do

No more will I see

Running IIS in 64-bit mode

Recently we had an issue with running .Net apps on a 64 bit windows machine. WSUS was installed (as a 64 bit app) and was working. I wanted to dual-use that underutilized machine as a virtual machine server. What could possibly go wrong?!

VMware Server (v.1.04) was installed and at that point it broke WSUS!

Seems that as part of the VMware installation process, it reconfigures the IIS server to function as a 32 bit machine. WSUS no likey. The following steps worked for me to resuscitate WSUS.

• Uninstall WSUS, leaving your current config/data behind. (On hindsight, this may have not been necessary for the fix, but I’m noting this step anyway incase it is.
• Set the IIS server back to 64-bit mode.
  Microsoft Knowledgebase article KB894435 has excellent insight in how to switch amongst the various modes.
  1. In my case, I had to do

     
     cscript  %SYSTEMDRIVE%\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs
     SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0
     

     the above (one continuous line at a command prompt)  disables the Windows on Windows64 feature in Win2003 SP1

  2. Followed by

     %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
     

     That registers the 64 Bit version of the .NetFramework
     You also need to check back at the Computer Management Console, Internet Information Services, Web Service Extentions, to make sure that ASP.NET v2.0.50727 is “Allowed”

• Reinstall WSUS (if you had removed it initially) allowing it to use the existing configuration when prompted.

Hummmmm

Sounding it’s presence

A constant 60Hz Tone

Electronic life

‘Net at night

Browse at 2 am

Pages render all too slow

Tomorrow too fast

Added swap space on the fly

There have been a number of times that my Ubuntu machine has just ground to a halt. Turns out that my configured swap partition was way under-sized. The instructions at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/ are an easy step by step guide to defining a file instead of resizing partitions and creating a new partition to serve as swap space.

The Metamorphosis of Windows

Geekyness (sp?)

This is (I suppose) a kinda geek purity test. I am however disappointed in the score. I knew I was lowering my score when one of the questions was ‘what do you do at 3am on a weekday’ and to my shame I had to admit sleeping. If I came accross that question a few years back it may have been a different story…. c’est la vie.