I am trying to find a way to catagorize my weblog message so that those who are interest in my personal life ([Personal]) doesn't have to be bored by my Software devlopment ([Dev]). For now I'll just add a category tag at the beginning of my message. Later I will try to do something more fancy.


[Dev]
I was pretty happy with VMWare so far, but today I received a curve ball when I tried to move some files from my hosting machine to the virtual machine. Later I figured out that it's because of the new network card that I added in order to saperate the Intranet and Internet connection. After adding a new virtual network adaptor, all is running OK now.

I read and heard some good stuff about DotNetNuke (an open source portal application), and decided to give it a try, but it turned out that it sort of required a SQL Server 2000, so I go ahead and install it. Throught out the process, I found out that SQL 2K Service Pak was stayed at sp3a since May 2003. That is good. It means SQL 2K is stable enough for more than a year. Now that's something I can recommand to my client to put in production environment. Anything that release a new service pak once 6 month has some problem with its stability.


[Tech]
The Tweak UI (part of the Microsoft PowerTool) is the easiest way to get rid of the login screen if you are the solo user of your machine.


[Personal]
I haven't touched software devlopment stuff for almost a year, and that worried myself for you know how fast technology changes. So I am starting to listen to the radio show "Dot Net Rocks" again, and planning to build a small application on my personal web site. It should gradually take its shape after this week.


[Tech]
The hecker world is just ultra scary. Perviously I thought that Windows 2003 Server was pretty success in the way of how they kept hackers from making their OS free for being upgradable using Windows update, but today I found a heck from www.suprnova.org that you can actually turn a trial version of Windows Server 2003 into a fully workable retail version, and you can totally use Windows Update to bring your OS to the latest and greatest stage! Man, this is ultra scary. But there's one important thing: read the instruction, especially don't reboot the machine after doing the Windows Update right away. Read the instruction and it will tells you how to workaround some problem. Otherwise after you reboot the machine, it will lock itself down and force you to go thru Windows Activitation.

Not that I am encouraging you to heck, though. :-E