Joel Francisco
geek stories and photography misadventuresTechnology rocks!
Virtual SAN = iSCSI Software Target
At long last, i can test clustering, failover and hyper-v all at the same time. Wondering why just now? because i cannot find any free Virtual SAN that can do the trick. And all these technologies require shared storage. Thanks to Microsoft, we have the iSCSI Software Target which turns a computer running Windows Server into a storage device which provides shared block storage.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19867
Testing LR2/Blog Plugin
Another plugin from Photographer’s Toolbox (http://www.photographers-toolbox.com) From Lightroom 2 after editing, you can directly blog it to your wordpress blog. Works great if you’re posting images on your wordpress blog. Try it out yourself! 
Chinita Rita
That is why i don’t use it anymore. but still a nice plugin 
Internal Error 2739 Error in Vista (32 or 64-bit) When Installing Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Reflector Related Programs
When trying to install some application software in x32 or x64 editions of Windows Vista, you may encounter the following error message when trying to install the program by double clicking on Setup.exe installer. The programs affected include Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Flash CS 3, Adobe DreamWeaver CS 3, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web/Production Premium, other Adobe Creative Suite 3 products, older Adobe CS2 software, and other software such as .NET and VB Reflector!, regardless of whether the software is trial or licensed product.
Setup has encountered an error and cannot continue. Contact Adobe Customer Support for assistance. Internal Error 2739.
The problem is applicable for both 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows Vista. The solution for Internal Error 2739 problem is to re-register the JScript.dll (or optionally VBScript.dll) module in Windows Vista, as suggested in Adobe Forums. To do so:
- Run an elevated command prompt as Administrator.
- For Windows Vista 32-bit user, ensure that the command prompt is at C:\Windows\System32\ folder. For Windows Vista x64-bit, issue the following command to change to 64-bit folder in order to use the correct DLL files:cd ..\SysWow64
- Type the following command and hit Enter:regsvr32 jscript.dll
and optionally (if problem persists),
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
- Run the Adobe installer again.
Special thanks to www.mydigitallife.info for posting this content.
WordPress Yahoo Mail Integration
Wow! talk about the future…..Yahoo added Applications on the new Yahoo Mail experience. With different kinds of applications that can be connected to your yahoo mail, like flickr, paypal, etc. One of the great integrations are WordPress blogs. As I am writing this blog, I am actually doing it inside Yahoo Mail. And as a bonus, you can drag an email from your inbox to the WordPress application to blog it, how cool is that?
To use this feature, just check out the left frame on your Yahoo Mail, click on Applications, click on Add, then add WordPress, click and save settings and then you are on the go. Just make sure you have a wordpress blog or a website running wordpress with XML-RPC turned on.
Technology just keeps getting better and better.
updating blog using windows live writer
I am testing Windows Live Writer, a product that came as a free package for the Windows Live Products. It impressively connects to your blogs, like my blog site which uses WordPress, simply install and enter your username and password on your WordPress site, make sure you check XML-RPC on your WordPress Dashboard to enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.
Now using Windows Live Writer, blogging has never been as easy as typing it on your MS Word, and not on an HTML crappy plug in that takes ages to load sometimes and doesn’t really work that well. As an almost MS Word look-alike, it features spell-check feature and a Preview Tab so you can check how it will look like into your site.
It also connects to your Windows Live Photos, so you can insert your windows live albums as easy as this:
Lightroom 2 Watermark Plugin that works!
This came from avforums site…thanks to Tobers
Firstly, you need ImageMagick installed. This is a command line image manipulation application, but dont worry about that at the moment. Here’s the download link.
Secondly, you need Timothy Armes’s LR2/Mogrify Lightroom plugin. This puts a nice Lightroom-style interface onto the ImageMagick application. What this means is that a number of the common ImageMagick commands, like watermarking, text overlays, borders, are available in the Lightroom export dialogue box just like they were original Lightroom features. Cool! Here’s the download link.
So, once you’ve installed ImageMagick on your PC, install the LR2/Mogrify plugin into Lightroom. When that’s done, you’ll see some new options at the bottom left of your LR export dialogue. Tell LR where the ImageMagick app is installed on your PC and you’re sorted.
It took me about 15 mins to install, configure, and export my first watermarked bordered pic. And, being a part of LR, you can still export to Smugmug, Flickr etc as usual, but with watermarking, borders, text overlays etc etc.
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So automatically now upon export, no need to go to Photoshop to add your favorite watermark then re-export.
Here is the sample and also a teaser for the Russel & Diane Wedding pictures…
Step by Step to SQL Server 2008 Clustering
Hi, I’m sharing this document I made for a client we had. I installed SQL Server 2008 enterprise edition, clustered active/passive on their blade servers. In this installation, I have faced couple of problems and bugs, and i thank google for everything.
Without much ado, here you go….
Steps:
1. Configure MSCS or simply cluster the two servers
Cluster node 1
From cluster node 1, open Cluster Administrator by clicking on Start\All Programs\Administrative Tools\Cluster Administrator. Select Create New Cluster from the pull down menu and click OK. This will open the New Cluster wizard.
Select the cluster name (CLUSTERNAMEYOUWANT); then click next. Verify Node 1’s computer name is selected. Click Next. Cluster configuration will begin. Once cluster analysis is complete, click Next, and you will be asked to input an IP address. This is the cluster IP address that cluster management will use to connect to the cluster. Use the IP address of yourcustomipadd. Next, enter the Cluster Service account credentials that were created in the beginning of this paper. UID = yourclusteraccount and Password = yourpassword. Click next, and cluster analysis will begin to check for validity (
Change of Hearts – Transfer Serendipity to WordPress
Yes, it was a hard decision. But its for the best.
Bye serendipity… Hello WordPress!
Lot of issues for the change, but it just actually because of the limited plugins/widgets serendipity was offering.
Anyway good thing i found this blog to export my blog entries from serendipity to wordpress
First the idea.
1.WordPress (wp) do not have a Serendipity (s9y) import. It does have a RSS2.0 import
2.Serendipity has an full RSS feed export
So it looks like it is a simple export RSS in s9y and import RSS in wp. If only thing is so easy.
The problems:
1.Although s9y says “Export full RSS feed”, it actually export the first part of a 2 parts post.
2.s9y encode html tags < as & lt; and > as & gt;
wp however expect them to be un-encode and enclosed with CDATA[' ']
3.Time out well importing too big a rss file.
The solution:
1.Fix the full export
In the file rss.php (in the root folder), find this line serendipity_printEntries_rss($entries, $version, $comments, $metadata['fullFeed'], $metadata['showMail']);before the line add$metadata['fullFeed'] = true;Go into Serendipity admin and click on Export entries.
Save the xml file
2.Fix the encoding
Open the xml file in a text editor (Try NotePad2)
Do a search and replace
& lt; with < & gt; with >
3.Fix the time out
At the top of wp-admin/admin.php
add set_time_limit(0);
Fix AVG: Invalid Update Control CTF File
Pesky error from AVG while updating says "Invalid Update Control CTF file"
Follow the instructions:
There are 2 files that can be deleted as AVG will recreate them. If they become corrupted you will have to remove them manually.
In Windows XP, go to:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avg8\update\download
and delete
avginfoavi.ctf and avginfowin.ctf
In Windows Vista, go to:
C:\ProgramData\avg8\update\download
and delete these 2 same files.
Thanks to: http://thortweak.blogspot.com/2008/10/avg-update-control-ctf-file-fix.html
follow me, i will twit*
I have seen and heard twitter a couple of times and i have absolutely no idea what it does. Well for most internet geeks, it sure is a helpful way to know what people are doing without the need to ask. Twitter is another smart way of communicating thoughts, best of all you dont need to write a whole entry like right know I'm doing on my blog, for it has a maximum of 140 characters per twit. Now i have added a nice plugin at the right frame so my fans (if there are anyone else) can know what i do.
You can follow other's twit making it more interactive. So hope you guys twit 
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