Kent J. Chen's WebLog

a personal journal by an addictive geek

The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol

Posted in Tips & Tricks on June 12th, 2009 by Kent

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One remote user from work called me the other day saying her remote desktop client stopped working because of “there are no terminal server client access licenses available for this computer”. Well, that’s easy, I walked her through and successfully deleted the MSLicensing registry key on her Windows Vista computer, and happily told her you…

Finally There is A Phone Better Than iPhone

Posted in iPhone on June 9th, 2009 by Kent

imageThere are news all over the place today as Apple’s WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) went by, so no need to repeat them here again. Just go and look at Apple’s iPhone page to find out all the buzzes happening there.

I am a huge fan of iPhone, and guess won’t be changing it any time soon.…

Face it, document what you do is part of your life

Posted in Information Technology on June 4th, 2009 by Kent

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A few years back when I was still the only IT guy in the office, during a review after I worked there for half year, I was asked to fulfill a project that is simply just documenting everything in IT. The reason behind that is simply, because the firm needs to be prepared 1) if I got hit…

Bing is bringing some traffic to here

Posted in Stuff in General on June 2nd, 2009 by Kent

image Microsoft just released its new search engine lately which they hope they can compete with Google in some way. I started seeing some traffics that came from it, a little bit more than before. Not sure if it continues but I hope so. For that matter, I actually welcome this new service and hope it will be doing good.…

Speed Testing the Bandwidth right from iPhone

Posted in iPhone on June 2nd, 2009 by Kent

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Speedtest.net came up as no 1 when Googling “speed test’”, which I use quite often testing the internet speed performance. It comes quite handy. What I just discovered last week was they also have a free iPhone App that does the same thing.

It’s interesting and useful when having such a tool on my iPhone so I can test…

Had fun hunting down a network issue at work

Posted in Information Technology on May 28th, 2009 by Kent

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I have two NetGear GS748TS 48-port switches stacked together acting just like one at work, mainly for all workstations and no servers connect to either of them. It seemed to work fine, except, one of the units kept rebooting itself for no obvious reason once a while, mostly during the day while people are still at work.

After…

5 Things you need to know about Native VHD Boot in Windows 7 and how

Posted in Information Technology on May 24th, 2009 by Kent

image My first hands on experience about Windows 7 is on a virtual machine on VMware. It runs great but unfortunately no Aero theme due to the limitation on virtual environment. I wanted to install it on my laptop but for the time being I haven yet ready getting rid of my Vista. And I am not a huge fan…

UpdateProgress control disappeared before the Page gets updated on ASP.net Web App

Posted in ASP.net, Tips & Tricks on May 23rd, 2009 by Kent

imageI have a small web application written in ASP.net 2.0 (works on 3.5 as well) with Ajax enabled. What it does is to search information on a online database and downloads as PDF.  I use <asp:UpdatePanel></asp:UpdatePanel> to wrap up the web form content, and use <asp:UpdateProgress> to show a modal popup type of progress icon during the actual download.

It works…

Sending Authenticated Email in ASP.net 3.5

Posted in ASP.net, Tips & Tricks on May 20th, 2009 by Kent

imageThe info from my two previous posts, here and here about the same topic wasn’t quite complete and doesn’t seem to work in ASP.net 3.5. So here is another update on this topic, in cause someone is running into the same issue as I had.

So, what is the authenticated email?

It’s a method used in…

Windows7Hacker Launched

Posted in Stuff in General on May 18th, 2009 by Kent

imageEver since I had my first glimpse on Windows 7, I have been hooked. The more stuff I learn from Windows 7, the more I like this new Windows Operation System Microsoft about to release later this year. It’s very much nice done in many way and corrected many issues existed in Vista. By claimed as “Vista Done…