• Start regedit.exe
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio
• Delete 11.0_Config
• Restart ssms.exe

I don't understand why it exists though. It's a protocol that's too smart for its own good. Really. Sure, it'll give us all a gajillion IP addresses, but why do we need that many? IPv6 also uses multiple formats. You can use hexadecimal, or not. You can include leading zeroes, or not. This makes it rather confusing. You won't be able to memorize an IPv6 address, or be able to make a rough guess as to the country of origin.

So, in five minutes this afternoon... I came up with a solution that would give us 18 quintillion IP addresses AND it would be readable by normal people.

I give you... 000.000.000.000.173.231.40.101 (the potential IP address for this particular website). We could even make those leading zeroes meaningful. How about country codes? Device classifications? And best of all, old things would be able to use it by ignoring those leading zeroes!

Isn't 18 quintillion enough? That's 2^64 power. In comparison, our sun has only been in existence 157 quadrillion seconds. And heck, if we need to, just tack on some more zeroes to the front if we ever need more.

Am I missing something big here? Or could it have been this easy?

You can do that by visiting this page:
TAGES (cache)

I can't wait to play this amazing RTS again. It's been a long time!

Oh, and if you happened to buy the Direct2Drive? version of the game like I did, you'll be going through a lot of loopholes in order to get it to run since they were bought out by GameFly?. The activation servers are down, if you even have the installation files, and if you don't they're currently unavailable. I'm not an advocate of piracy, but c'mon guys, what the hell? I know it's an older game, but I bought it, and I was promised the ability to re-download it whenever I want.

First, I received my VMware Certified Professional accreditation this past month, and I'm currently studying up for Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker. It looks like I'll be going for some Microsoft certifications sometime in the future as well.

Second, the server running this has had some minor upgrades including a slightly faster processor and more RAM. My intention is to virtualize some tasks being run on the system in order to break it out a little bit.

Finally, Happy New Year!

I'm sure there will be more interesting things I'll be running into that I'll want to post about. Stay tuned!

The short version of how to do this:

Open up regedit.exe, and then browse down to this registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify

Then select and delete IconStreams? and PastIconsStream?. They will be recreated from scratch the next time explorer.exe runs.

Finally, today I went into Internet Explorer 9 and poked around. Turns out enabling TLS 1.1 or 1.2 causes issues for sites using TLS 1.0. Who would have known right? I certainly didn't. So by unchecking those, I was finally able to log in and do work. It only took several hours to figure out the damage done by checking those two boxes.

Beware!

1. First, locate your PDC Server. Open the command prompt and type: C:\>netdom /query fsmo
2. Log in to your PDC Server and open the command prompt.
3. Stop the W32Time? service: C:\>net stop w32time
4. Configure the external time sources, type: C:\> w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:”0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, 2.pool.ntp.org”
5. Make your PDC a reliable time source for the clients. Type: C:\>w32tm /config /reliable:yes
6. Start the w32time service: C:\>net start w32time
7. The windows time service should begin synchronizing the time. You can check the external NTP servers in the time configuration by typing: C:\>w32tm /query /configuration
8. Check the Event Viewer for any errors.

Navigate to %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Profiler\TraceDefinitions

then...

Make a copy of:
Microsoft SQL Server TraceDefinition 9.0.0.xml

Name it:
Microsoft SQL Server TraceDefinition 9.0.5000.xml

Finally, open it up in Notepad and edit:
<BUILDNUMBER>0</BUILDNUMBER> to <BUILDNUMBER>5000</BUILDNUMBER>

You should be able to open SQL Profiler after modifying this file. This needs to be done with any client machine that is missing the Microsoft SQL Server TraceDefinition? 9.0.5000.xml file.

In the early stages of your company, it's important to come up with a name, and not just an easy name to remember, but one that people can spell, and has a domain name that is open for registering. Why is that? Well, if you start to grow, you don't want someone taking the domain out from underneath you, or worse, have it in use by someone else who isn't willing to part with it.

WhiteCalf, LLC owns seventy-four domain names scattered across a variety of different topics. That sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. Many larger companies or domain squatters could have thousands upon thousands of domains registered. This makes it a challenge to come up with something new that is available. Be wary, if you find a domain name and you're considering the purchase, don't waste time! Your query to determine whether the domain is available can also be tracked by a would-be squatter. Don't let that domain vanish from your grasp. Oh, and once you've got it, don't forget to renew it every year! There are many, many people out there waiting to snatch up a domain that has expired, and it can be very expensive to get it back!

Hopefully that gives new small businesses some insight on why it's important to verify whether a domain is available, and to pick it up as soon as possible if it is. Oh and by the way, if you're looking to register a domain cheap, we can do that for you! Take a look at our Domain Registration site (cache).

Do you have any tips for domains or had any problems with squatters holding a domain you wanted? Sound off!

.\%USERNAME%

This allows you to log in locally without knowing the local machine name.