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• Saturday’s Rant

  I’m not used to ranting…but this morning I’m really hating Adaptec. I need to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on a bootable VHD. I need to access my RAID Disk array from that system, so I go to adaptec site and download the drivers. Drivers are only for... Posted Oct 31 2009, 04:17 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• My web bookmark… probably is google

  This morning I need to install a Windows Server on a VHD and boot from VHD, I do not remember all the steps needed to achieve this, so I know that I’ve previously bookmarked a page from Scott Hanselman’s blog that have all links and all information to... Posted Oct 31 2009, 03:13 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Speedup Visual Studio with RAMDIsk

  In previous post I showed how using a RAMDisk does not offer speed gain when you have fast disk subsystem, but RAMDisk can still comes to an help to speedup visual studio. Visual Studio uses windows TEMP directory during normal usage, so you can encounter... Posted Aug 31 2009, 09:38 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Speedup Visual Studio with faster disk

  We always know that to speedup visual studio a fast disk is quite always a good choice, but what is best configuration? I’ve done some little benchmark on the compilation of a project with a msbuild script and here is the result. When all sources are... Posted Aug 31 2009, 05:16 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General, Experiences

• Another 10K RPM Disk

  Today I ordered a third velociraptor disk to replace my old secondary disk that is a 120GB 5 years old disk (an EIDE one). I noticed that to speed up building process, nothing is better than buy faster disk. I plan to use this disk to move windows swap... Posted Aug 05 2009, 07:24 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Living without internet connection

  In the last 6 days I lived without an internet connection at home, I felt really strange, no way to contact your friends with skype or msn, no way to read mail, consult some site, buy something on amazon…I really realized that my life is tightly bounded... Posted Jul 16 2009, 07:33 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Test posting in the future

  Probably one of the most missed feature of wordpress is the possibility to post in the future. There are days when you have tons of ideas, but you simply avoid to blog just because you’ve already blogged a lot in the last days. One of the most interesting... Posted Jul 04 2009, 11:26 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General, Blogging

• Visual Studio Database edition How to find objects that reference other objects

  Another feature of Visual Studio Database Edition I cannot live without, is the possibility to find all objects that references a specific table or stored procedure etc. To see a dependency for an object simply click on the SchemaView and then you can... Posted Jun 23 2009, 07:31 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General, .NET framework

• Windows 7 RC acquisition from DV camera

  I hope I can help others because it took me about a couple of hour to find a solution to this problem. I have a mini DV camera SONY DCR CH51E and windows 7 rc 1. When I connect the camera to the pc the first time I see a baloon in the systray area that... Posted May 24 2009, 02:03 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Remote desktop clipboard problems

  Today I have a server used in remote desktop where clipboard stops to transfer to my machine. Usually the clipboard data of the server is transferred to my machine, but this afternoon it stops working. The server cannot be restarted, I tried to logoff... Posted May 15 2009, 09:23 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• How secure is your password ?

  This is a simple question but is very hard to answer correctly. I just finished reading this post by Jeff Atwood that makes me rethink on how secure my passwords are. As you can see from that post someone found Jeff password stealing it from a site that... Posted May 06 2009, 10:15 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Optimizing regular expression part 2

  If you look at this post, you can see that I had some performance problem with regular expression. After the first round of optimization it turns out that performances are still quite slow. My next step will be to remove regular expression doing search... Posted Apr 29 2009, 11:00 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Java versus .Net programmers

  I’ve come across this post, that deals about java and .net programmers. I must admit that the situation is the one depicted by the author, probably in the average, java programmers are better accustomed with stuff like DI, IoC, ORM, AOP, and design principle... Posted Apr 28 2009, 03:22 PM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General

• Cannot obtain Metadata from when trying to create references with serviceutil.exe

  I have a simple wcf service hosted in IIS6, when I launch serviceutil.exe (svcutil.exe http://10.8.50.1:7507/FileReceiver.svc?wsdl)  to create a proxy I get a complex and long error, but the first part of the error tells me Error: Cannot obtain Metadata... Posted Apr 15 2009, 08:51 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General, .NET framework

• PHP odyssey

  I have a local copy of my blog in my machine, just to test if I need to do some modification to the skin or to some pages of the blog, everything is always gone ok, just installing php, mysql and the blog works great. Today I need to reinstall php and... Posted Feb 25 2009, 05:59 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General