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MS IT Forum 2006, some pictures

OK, I finally uploaded the IT Forum 2006 pictures to the Gallery section… It’s about time, I know. Yet again, our yearly trip to the top event for Microsoft infrastructure professionals was a success. Lots of interesting new products and technologies are coming our way (recently released or in beta): Windows Vista Longhorn Server Sharepoint [...]

Virtualizing machines with VSMT

As I wrote before, my webserver was running as a virtual server instance on the free VMWare Virtualserver. Meanwhile Microsoft also offers its Virtualserver solution (MS Virtualserver 2005 R2) for free and most of my test machines are installed via MS Virtualserver. Now I also wanted to run my webserver as a MS Virtualserver instance and I [...]

My first post using Windows Live Writer

Microsoft released a beta version of Windows Live Writer. This software enables you to create and edit posts for several weblogging services. So… I have to try this out. So far it seems to be working great. As you can see I’m interacting with WordPress myself, but several other blogs are supported. Find out more [...]

WordPress and MySQL upgrade!

Yeah! I just managed to upgrade MySQL and WordPress one after the other without any issue (at least I didn’t discover them yet)! I performed following upgrades: MySQL 4.1 -> MySQL 5.0. WordPress 1.5.1 -> WordPress 2.0.2. It all went very smooth! Took a snapshot of the VMWare Server instance. Uninstalled MySQL v4.1. Reinstalled MySQL [...]

Disconnected

My apologies: During my leave for MS ITForum, my home hosted website got disconnected from the internet several times (on 16/11 and 17/11). This was not a webserver related issue. The explanation from my ISP (EDPNet): Yesterday’s and today’s disconnections are caused by a general failure on the Broba II ADSL network in the Brussels [...]

Comments on post lead to blank page

I had this weird problem with the submission of comments on this blog site. There were no problems submitting and managing articles, but adding comments from outside my home subnet just didn’t work. Visitors always ended up at a blank “wp-comments-post.php” page. Many thanks to Luc for discovering this issue on my site. I haven’t [...]