There’s an interesting article about the state of cloud computing. It discusses the pros and cons of using cloud computing and the next generation computing platform. Read the rest of this entry »

The trace command is used to visually see a network packet being sent and received and the amount of hops required for that packet to get to its destination.

Trace was created 1987 by Van Jacobson from a suggestion by Steve Deering, with particularly cogent suggestions or fixes from C. Philip Wood, Tim Seaver and Ken Adelman. It was originally created for unix and is called traceroute there.  In microsoft it is called tracert and in cisco ios it is called trace.

Good webpage about tracert in microsoft windows is

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162326

And for cisco ios

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1831/products_tech_note09186a00800a6057.shtml

Take a look at the new features available for NAV 2009 SP1: Read the rest of this entry »

The ping commmand in cisco ios is divited into simple and extended ping. 

With simple ping you can ping one ip address. With extended ping you can use the ping for measuring many things other than simple conectivity between ip adresses. For example you can change the packet size.  A good webpage deschribing how extended ping works and the possibilities that you can use is

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080093f22.shtml

Ping is one of the most used network management and troubleshooting tool today and since 1983.It was written by Mike Muuss  and the name comes from sonar technology. A good article about ping is

http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html?sess=4f8272bd1e5da03d1a16ba4a69452d93

Ping in Microsoft came along when Microsoft began with dos in the late 80s.  The best link that describes ping in windows systems is

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ping.mspx?mfr=true

Microsoft just came out with a good offer for existing NAV customers looking to add modules or for those looking to add users during a License Model Transition. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has made it easier for companies to switch from their outdated ERP systems to MS Dynamics NAV. Read the rest of this entry »

People can use private IP addresses inside companies or inside your home. They are not published to the internet. They are used for private use.

Public IP addresses are used for public use and they are published to the internet.  For example the public IP address of www.yahoo.com is 69.147.76.15

Applies to NAV 4.0 and microsoft sql server 2005.  SQL server 2008 has not been tested yet

There’s a problem when you try to connect to a SQL Server database due to a wrong MDAC detection.

The cause of this problem is the unified versioning of all DLL in Vista.

 Navision is detecting MDAC version through File version of SQL ODBC driver (sqlsrv32.dll). On Windows XP you can see version like 2000.85.1117.0 etc, but on Vista the file has version 6.0.5600.16384 and this is “less” than the requested version. Changing MDAC detection in Navision is no way.

The trick to run Dynamics NAV 4.x on Vista is this:

1. You need some resource editor tool, for example the Resource Hacker application
2. Copy the file sqlsrv32.dll from your Vista system32 folder to another place.
3. Open this copy in the resource editor
4. Change FILEVERSION value to new value e.g. 2000.85.1117.0 (in the header of Version info ressource)
5. Compile the resource
6. Save the file (backup original file!)

Now you need to copy the file back into system32 folder. But under Vista, this is not easy task. The file cannot be changed because just installer has enough rights.

Replacing original file with modified one:

1. Open properties of the original file
2. On the Security tab click Advanced
3. On the Owner tab click Edit
4. Select new owner of the file, for example your account
5. Commit all changes
6. Change permissions for your account to have all rights
7. Commit all changes
8. Now you are able to delete the file – delete it
9. Copy the modified file into system32 folder

Toshiba were the first ones to put a laptop in the market with a 512GB SSD (Solid State Drive).
Being the first ones they are asking for $3,499.99. We hope prices will come down fast now for SSDs in the laptop market.
Having a SSD hard drive could help your battery life with an increase of up to 50% according to Toshiba.
This machine shows off with 7.53 hours of battery life, which is ofcourse directly related to what the machine is doing in that time.