Ran across this rather unique notion the other day. It works!

eb poi(@$peb+0×8)+0×36fa c6 00 8a

My interpretation is that this “enters byte values” “c6 00 8a” into the address starting at offset 0×36fa from the value pointed to by offset 8 into the PEB. Whatever that ultimately does!

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After my last rant about Backup Exec I’m here to unleash another one.
You can’t simply restore a file to a dfsroot!

• You will have to manually stop the DFS service first before you try to restore something in the dfsroot.

 

I hope BackupExec will try to resolve this issue right now!

 

 

The bits are available here:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F22F69E-D1AF-49F0-8236-2B742B354919&displaylang=en

There has been a lot of progress made on Hyper-V since the Tech Preview that shipped with Server RC0 and RC1.  The entire system is much more stable and performant.  Even better, installing Hyper-V is now a great deal easier.  You no longer need to apply any hotfixes (those pesky .MSU files from RC0 and RC1) before you install Hyper-V - it’s now fully integrated into the Role Management tool from the start. 

Secondly, installing Windows Server 2008 in a Hyper-V VM is now a much better experience.  The Integration Components are now part of Windows Server 2008 and are installed automatically in a Hyper-V VM. 

Last, but certainly not least, installation of the Hyper-V role is now available on Server Core.

I’ll post more information about the new Beta release later on, so stay tuned!

[Mike is on vacation, so posts and responses will likely be delayed.]

This week, Christmas came early in a big black box code-named the “Spider“. It has a (engineering sample) quad-core Phenom 9700 2.4GHz processor, AMD 790FX chipset and an 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3850 graphics card.

Hector Ruiz could very well be Santa and his PR people, elves.

Needless to say it’s been a pretty tough year for Advanced Micro Devices. Starting from August, chief of sales and marketing officer Henri Richards announced to leave the company. Then came the fourth consecutive quarter net loss of nearly $400 million, total net loss of over $2 billion. More recently, AMD became less valued then what it paid for ATI last year. To the company and its many loyalists, all bets were on Phenom and the next-generation ATI Radeon graphics card.

Shortly after the announcement of Spider and Pheom, benchmarks started trickling out with not-so-good news. At least early-production Phenom review samples suffered problems with stability in what is now known as the TLB errata. If that wasn’t enough, the only workaround resulted in dramatic performance loses. As an outsider at the time, it seemed like quite the tragedy.

Having exhaustively used

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One of the hot topic about Windows 2008 is the terminal services Web.

Tested in the RDP, it rocks. However, one thing we found out for RC0, which is not in Beta bits: it will need Windows XP SP3 and above, Vista SP1 and above to run. Personal thinking, it is not good as lots and lots of machines out there not be able to use this cool feature.

Hope MSFT will allow RDP ver 6.1 for download, instead of WinXP SP3 and Vista SP1.

Want to know more?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/10/17/client-requirements-for-ts-web-access-in-windows-server-2008-release-candidate-rc0.aspx

This is just a quick note. Microsoft has just announced that the Release Candidate for Vista SP1 has been released to the general public.

Download and install from here