The name is Sami Lavikko and this is my personal note chotting spot.

Windows 7 SP1 beta

The SP1 beta definitely made my machine quite a bit snappier. Can't really stick my finger out and poke at any specific thing, but the general feeling (salute), is less sluggish.

New MaStory test. Trying to get attached media to work.

Atleast earlier versions of this couldn't upload graphics to drupal properly. Running version 2.0 according to the about page.

Couldn't select a local image directly.
Uploading to flickr with the n900 integration seemingly works ok:

Not really. It published the post with filtered html and wouldn't actually show the image without manually switching.

Test post from MaStory on my N900

Got the phone on monday. General feel is awesome. Shows a lot of potential, which i think will be realized quite soon as the userbase grows and we get a couple of updates. Main gripe atm is that exchange 2003 mfe syncing wont work.

Slow MSSQL ODBC Connection from ASP.NET

Chotting out a note here for others that might run into this particulary freak occurance.

We got uniformly slow responses from an asp.net web application that used a database server through ODBC. The delays were approximately 9 seconds for each connection attempt. After tracing the registy on the particular server, I noticed that the application was trying to use the second nic on the server which was in disconnected mode and then timed out and went to the active one. Disabling the disconnected nic solved the issue.

Managing Your Overflowing Outlook

A Lifehacker post @ http://lifehacker.com/5151771/top-10-outlook-boosters made me take a second look at my Outlook usage. I've tried to get it under wraps quite many times earlier, never succeeding. Once again my inbox had exploded with over 20k messages and with the constant incoming flow things were slipping through my fingers, as anything that dropped out of the bottom of my screen also dropped from my mind in the mess.

RSS Feed Of Microsoft Service Packs

It would be great if Microsoft supplied this, but alas, I seem to be too clumsy to find it. It would be of great use to just have one consolidated feed that would pop any new Microsoft service packs for products without having to wait for the message to flow down the grapevine. Please drop me a note if you find this though, I may be wrong in my assumption that this feed does not exist as I gave up after a few minutes of searching. There is a page that sort of does the deed in Microsoft premium support, but that's behind authentication and does not support rss.

Vista VPN grief

I've visited this problem once earlier, but ran into it again after re-installing vista on my laptop.

Connect to a basic ms ipsec vpn with a non-domain account, and vista will try to authenticate to domain resources with the vpn account. Found the following in technet forums:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/thread/275599f0-6239-46a5-8245-50a5c13a2713/

Trying to get things done

So, I was trying to decide whether to use Evernote or Onenote for organizing my notes and other random clips of data when I notice the little Blog this –link in Onenote.
It seems to work ok-ish through the Blog API in Drupal, but could not get the image upload features to work (without the ftp since I'm firewalled most of the time). It would make posting random crap here quite a lot easier with that feature, but I'll settle for this text based goodness for now. Still trying to decide between the organizers tho.

Listing Citrix / Xenapp clients with specific version with a specified timeframe

I've been trying to monitor that all the stray citrix client installations in our firm have gotten upgraded. I have WIRM installed but as it hasn't been udated for a while and does not have this specific functionality (which the citrix's own reporting also fails to produce), I digged around the WIRM code to see how it queries the database. This is my modified version of WIRMs query that does the trick well enough.

use [swsummary];
SELECT DISTINCT LU_CLIENT.CLIENTNAME, LU_CLIENT.CLIENTADDRESS