Kent J. Chen's WebLog

Most of the websites I follow have the RSS feeds that make me quite easy to subscribe but every so often there are sites and pages I came across that just don’t have the feeds for me to easily follow up. I would have to bookmark them in my Google Bookmark and remember to come back and check them up periodically for any changes I may be interested. Too bad, I often forgot doing so.

Now my favorite RSS feed reader, Google Reader, has rolled out a new feature that allows me to follow any changes to any…

I was stuck when I was setting up a Windows server 2003 machine this afternoon. After I loaded pretty everything on the machine, I created another user account named support and disabled local administrator account, and log off. Ooops, did you see anything missing here?

Yes, I forgot to add the support account to the local administrators user group. So basically, I was screwed, and was stuck in a user account that has limited privilege to the machine because everything I tried just plainly gave me “access denied” popup.

Without any luck fooling around in the system, I…

Here comes more reading for you if you are planning upgrade your VMware infrastructure to vSphere 4 (now with update 1) near in the feature. If you are a VMware administrator, you are highly encouraged to download and check it out.

The guild is currently in public draft, called Rev B, and contains 6 sections including:

• Introduction
• Console OS
• vCenter
• vNetwork
• Host
• Virtual Machines

All sections can be downloaded in PDF separately here.

It should work but doesn’t always. Sometimes you just scratch your head wondering why this computer didn’t get update automatically from the WSUS server as you configured. Now, there is a tool set from Microsoft TechNet that makes you troubleshoot the WSUS weirdness a bit easier.

There are 6 tools for 6 purposes in this tool set but mostly you will just need 2 to troubleshoot your problem.

Server Diagnostic Tool

The tool is designed to help administrators gather WSUS server debugging logs and configuration information for further troubleshooting.

Client Diagnostics Tool

This tool is…

The How-To Geek had a how-to article about this, which looks quite interesting. It may be not new to those who already knew or use Ubuntu but to me, a windows-stubborner, it seems to be appealing.

Reading through the steps made me to think that it’s a lot like Windows 7 native VHD boot. You don’t need a separate partition to install another operating system. The only difference between this and native boot VHD is that the former has a folder that contains all necessary files to run the Linux while the latter…

I was preparing my development environment on my Windows 7 yesterday. I loaded Visual Studio 2008, enabled IIS, and pointed it to my apps directory. All look good until I converted one app I coded before to application and tested it through my web browser.

Zoom it out to see the detail errors if you can’t read it clearly.

I then also tested a fresh built web app with default settings. It still happened the same. The link at bottom of the page points to a Microsoft KB that also didn’t seem to help.

Without…

I am not a fan of auto-response. In fact, I hate to use it for a few reasons, one of which is I am telling spamers that I am real. But this really makes me to use it now, or even more.

Hi – thank you for emailing me.

When your email arrived, I was doing one of the following: celebrating
Christmas with my family, bringing in the New Year with friends,
getting married to my favourite person in the world, flying across the
planet, navigating the Indian transport system, riding a camel around
the Arabian

…

BlogML is an open format derived from XML used mainly to store and restore the content of a blog. It was originally developed on GotDotNet community and widely supported by many .Net-based blogging tools, such as Community Server, Subtext, and dasBlog. So the chances are, if you want to move your .Net-powered blog to WordPress, BlogML is the best way to export your content out of your blog and import them into WordPress.

But the problem is WordPress doesn’t support BlogML out of the box.

So in order to be able to import the BlogML file exported from…