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If you're installing SQL Server on your Vista Business/Enterprise or Ultimate machine chances are you do intend to use it for development purposes and obviously have already installed IIS. But chances are you might receive a warning message on the System Configuration Check page of the SQL Server 2005 Setup. "Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled. IIS is required by some SQL Server features. Without IIS, some SQL Server features will not be...
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Last night I when I reached home and switched on my machine it froze at the BIOS OEM Logo screen. I panicked but only for a second as it all seemed all too familiar to me. Recent memory of a post on Scott Hanselman's blog helped me fix the problem in under a minute. Turns out my brother had brought a Kingston DataTraveler 1GB USB disc of a friend from his MBA class. He told me he was unable to unplug it as Windows was reporting it as still being used and he forgot to take it out after he switched...
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I've been reading about the whole VMware's attack on Microsoft's Virtualization strategy and its follow up stories. Having very little to do with hardcore system administration I am not at all qualified to comment on the issue/issues. But since Desktop Virtualization applications by both these companies have been available for free for quite sometime now, a thought ran through my mind. After all I live in a country where piracy is at a very high level. I guess such a thought would come...